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• State oil and gas chief: Battlement Mesa drilling health study not pressing

  
  Colorado Independent — Authority: 676
  The head of the state agency that oversees oil and gas drilling in Colorado says it’s too early to commit to a baseline health study in a Western Slope community wary of plans to site up to 200 natural gas wells near homes and on its municipal golf course. Members of Battlement Concerned Citizens (BCC) want a ...
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• Houston Mayor Bill White to run for governor? We’ve got the new candidate’s details

  
  Texas Watchdog — Authority: 546
  If you haven’t heard already, there’s more talk today that there’s a new face in the race for Texas governor, and it looks a whole lot like Houston Mayor Bill White. That’s the word from Chron.com as well as the Texas Tribune, with the word attributed in both cases to unnamed sources. Both are saying [...]
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• Houston parking commissioners launched ‘booting’ firm after crafting rules for program

  
  Texas Watchdog — Authority: 546
  Two members of the city of Houstons Parking Commission who helped craft the rules for the citys "booting" program for illegally parked vehicles last year joined forces as partners in a new business just before the new rules were approved by the city. Their new business venture? Its a company that boots illegally ...
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• Houston Chronicle: Settlement delay costs Houston Independent School District $82 million

  
  Texas Watchdog — Authority: 546
  The Houston Independent School District has missed out on $82 million in technology upgrades while feds investigate whether employees accepted improper gifts from school vendors, the Houston Chronicle reports.Superintendent Terry Grier said this week that the district is nearing a legal settlement so that schools can ...
  6 days ago

• What’s Transparency Without Accuracy?

  
  Show-Me Daily — Authority: 478
  Uh oh. News media and bloggers have been reporting all week about federal stimulus dollars going to fictitious congressional districts. The website Watchdog.org reported that, nationwide, the fictitious districts are receiving $6.4 billion in stimulus money . I did some reporting of my own over at Policy Pulse , ...
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• GovTrack.us helps citizens watch Congress

  
  Voice For Liberty in Wichita — Authority: 476
  The website GovTrack.us is a great resource for citizens who are interested in the United States Congress . With the rapid expansion of government in the recent past, this is something we should all be concerned with. By using GovTrack.us, you can search for bills by their bill number, words in the bill, the bill ...
  6 days ago

• How Many Words Does It Take to Say “Louisiana”?

  
  The Volokh Conspiracy — Authority: 778
  About 600 or so . Copyright © 2009 This feed is for personal, non-commercial use only. The use of this feed on other websites breaches copyright. If this content is not in your news reader, it makes the page you are viewing an infringement of the copyright. (Digital Fingerprint: )
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• Proposed geothermal lease in Chaffee County has residents steamed

  
  Colorado Independent — Authority: 676
  Colorado is no stranger to controversial energy extraction, with its perpetual tussles over oil, gas and uranium mining. Now Chaffee County is seeing a battle over a new kind of energy extraction:  geothermal. A Bureau of Land Management proposal to lease the geothermal rights on some 800 acres of Chaffee County ...
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• Watchdog Has Doubts About Stimulus Jobs Reported

  
  Boom2Bust.com — Authority: 574
  I’d like to rewind for a second. In that last post on the proposed “Cash for Caulkers” stimulus program, the New York Times piece said: The rest of the stimulus has created a lot of jobs — 700,000 to 1.5 million, according to economists’ estimates. Now, I’m hearing there were problems with ...
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• Public not invited to meetings about Brownsville master plan

  
  Texas Watchdog — Authority: 546
  Brownsville city and civic officials have met privately about a growth plan for the city.The Brownsville Herald has the story:Elected and appointed officials of public entities have been meeting to prepare for the implementation of the city’s near $900,000 master plan called “Imagine Brownsville” — but most ...
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• Fed’s Independence Vital for a Stable Economy

  
  Show-Me Daily — Authority: 478
  CBS’s moneywatch.com site recently released an article by Mark Thoma on the independence of the Federal Reserve, and those very real political conditions that threaten it. This situation is dangerously close to a Catch-22 scenario. Here’s the problem: When politicians get involved with monetary policy, ...
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• An off-the-cuff open letter to Charlie Angus

  
  Chris Tindal — Authority: 110
  Dear Charlie, Jane Taber reports over on globeandmail.com that you want MPs like yourself to be banned from Twitter “to save politicians from looking like idiots.” “Here’s a better idea,” wrote Jeff Jedras . “Stop being idiots.” We could probably just leave it there, Charlie, but I want this point ...
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• More Stimulative Than You Could Have Imagined

  
  The Volokh Conspiracy — Authority: 778
  How successful has the stimulus been at creating jobs?  So successful that it’s created jobs in Congressional districts that do not even exist !  More from Nick Gillespie .  (HT: Instapundit ) Copyright © 2009 This feed is for personal, non-commercial use only. The use of this feed on other websites ...
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• Sens Udall and Bennet seek to have it both ways on Cap and Trade

  
  Colorado Independent — Authority: 676
  Colorado U.S. Sens Mark Udall and Michael Bennet with 12 other Senate Democrats signed onto a letter (pdf) urging Senate leaders weighing climate legislation to consider granting valuable credits to utilities that rely most heavily on coal. Udall and Bennet joined other perceived pro-climate legislation lawmakers ...
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• Tribune, Sunlight blog on publication of Annise Parker’s tax returns

  
  Texas Watchdog — Authority: 546
  We wanted to express our gratitude to both the Texas Tribune and the Sunlight Foundation for giving us shout-outs yesterday for our publication of Houston mayoral candidate Annise Parker’s income tax returns. Thank you!
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• Will mayoral candidate Gene Locke release his tax returns?

  
  Texas Watchdog — Authority: 546
  It’s been nine days now since Texas Watchdog called on the two contenders for mayor to release their income tax returns. Annise Parker has given up hers. So, where’s Gene Locke, and will we get to see his tax returns?Since we made our public request on Nov. 4, we haven’t been getting responses from ...
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• Houston mayoral candidate Annise Parker releases tax returns for self, partner to Texas Watchdog

  
  Texas Watchdog — Authority: 546
  Annise Parker has made public the personal federal income tax returns for herself and her longtime domestic partner, responding to a request by Texas Watchdog earlier this month of both Parker and her opponent, attorney Gene Locke. Locke still has not made his tax forms public.
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• Calling Missouri Bloggers!

  
  Show-Me Daily — Authority: 478
  The Show-Me Institute will be hosting a blogosphere event on Nov. 21 for established bloggers, as well as new and prospective bloggers. There will be training, panel discussions, and a panel presentation from the the Motorhome Diaries folks! It’s free, and will be a lot of fun. If you’re interested, check out ...
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• False arguments and the NB Power deal

  
  Writelife — Authority: 118
  On both Facebook and Twitter today I posted a link to this page: A List of Fallacious Arguments . I did so because in the New Brunswick power deal debate I’ve seen quite a few comments, posts and so on that are off track, in my opinion, or concern issues separate from the merits of the proposed deal. For ...
  2 weeks ago

• Government Transparency Done Right

  
  Show-Me Daily — Authority: 478
  On Friday, the state of Missouri surprised me. I’m used to long waits, unreturned phone calls, and copying fees whenever I ask a local or state official for public records. So, when I called the folks at the Missouri Accountability Portal (MAP), a state government website devoted to making state spending and ...
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