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Details of the Senate bill to avert the 'fiscal cliff'
Latest timelinesThe Capitol is reflected on the wet ground in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. Credit: Jacquelyn Martin, Associated Press A bill approved Tuesday by the Senate -- and later by the House -- averts wide tax increases and budget cuts scheduled to take effect in... -
Politicians could use lesson in today's popular culture
We identify with popular culture more easily than we identify with politics, that's why pop culture is so popular, and a lot more interesting than government affairs. Hence the reason Barack Obama's speech last week took a backseat to his mixed Star Wars/...Tags: Culture, Television, Breaking Bad (tv program), Budget Control Act of 2011, The Wall Street Journal
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Dow hits record, erasing Great Recession losses
NEW YORK (AP) — The stock market is back. Five and a half years after the start of a frightening drop that erased $11 trillion from stock portfolios and made investors despair of ever getting their money back, the Dow Jones industrial average...
Tags: Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC, Inflation and Deflation, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Finance, Services and Shopping
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Sequestration is a political game that could cause real pain [Editorial]
After bumping our heads on the debt ceiling, then teetering on the fiscal cliff, we are now threatened with something called sequestration. Had anyone even heard that word before a few months ago? Can anyone define it? Around these parts, it's all too...Tags: Barack Obama, Politics, BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport, Budget Control Act of 2011, Layoffs and Downsizing
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IRS will pay whistle-blowers less because of federal budget cuts
WASHINGTON -- The federal government's automatic budget cuts mean there will be less financial incentive to turn in tax cheats. In a notice on its website, the Internal Revenue Service said it would pay 8.7% less to informants who blow the whistle on...
Tags: U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations, Government Debt, Internal Revenue Service, Politics, Barbara A. Mikulski
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Sequester, held in contempt
WASHINGTON -- I hate the sequester, beginning with its name. "Sequester" is a verb, not a noun. This ridiculous exercise is not just unwise and unproductive, but ungrammatical as well. I hate the way the sequester diverts attention from issues that...
Tags: Budget Control Act of 2011, Arne Duncan, Unemployment, Career and Workplace, Labor Markets
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Is the sequestration a true crisis?
Yes This has been an embarrassing year for the nation's leaders. After barely forming a deal on the Fiscal Cliff in January they have months later failed to compromise on billions of dollars in budget cuts. Americans should have little faith in...Tags: Government Debt, Budget Control Act of 2011, U.S. Congress
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Pari-mutuel challenges: Economy, Seminoles -- and each other
When slot machines began spinning at South Florida pari-mutuels back in 2006, some expected gobs of cash to roll in. And while the casinos are turning over healthy amounts to the state ($143 million in slot taxes last fiscal year), all agree that the...
Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Entertainment, Mardi Gras, Budget Control Act of 2011, U.S. Congress
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In the absence of a budget deal,it's off to Armageddon we go
WASHINGTON - "The worst-case scenario for us," a leading anti-budget-cuts lobbyist told The Washington Post, "is the sequester hits and nothing bad really happens." Think about that. Worst case? That a government drowning in debt should cut back by 2.2...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Social Sciences, Culture, Budget Control Act of 2011, White House
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Letters to the Editor - March 3
It’s time for a gun-control amendment To the editor: I practiced law for more than 30 years and I understand the difficulty and the risk in convening a constitutional convention. But this is not an unprecedented solution. To grant blacks freedom,...Tags: Pension and Welfare, Interior Policy, Budget Control Act of 2011, Business, Labor Legislation
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An unchained budget deal
Orlando Opinionators - Orlando SentinelThe deal taking shape in the last hours before the fiscal cliff deadline is a huge disappointment. It doesn't even make a serious attempt at reducing the deficit, which was supposed to be the point of the budget talks. All it means is that Congress and... -
Consumer spending rose slightly in January even as income tumbled
WASHINGTON -- Consumers spent slightly more in January than the previous month even as their income plummeted by the largest amount in 20 years because of the "fiscal cliff," the Commerce Department said Friday. People boosted their spending by saving...
Tags: Government Debt, Politics, Taxation, Personal Income
Jan 1, 2013
| Los Angeles Times
Mar 6, 2013
|Column| South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Mar 6, 2013
|Story| Petoskey News
Mar 5, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Mar 5, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Mar 5, 2013
|Column| Orlando Sentinel
Mar 4, 2013
|Column| Daily American
Mar 4, 2013
|Story| SFL
Mar 3, 2013
|Column| South Bend Tribune
Mar 3, 2013
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Dec 31, 2012
| Orlando Sentinel
Mar 1, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
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