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Did Tall Ship Amistad Sail Off With $1.4M In State Money?
State Rep. Diana Urban spoke for all Connecticut taxpayers this week when she demanded a full accounting of the millions of state dollars that have been invested in the tall ship Amistad. The Day of New London reports that Amistad America Inc. of...
Tags: New London (New London, Connecticut), Slavery, The Amistad, Mystic Seaport, North Stonington
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Where's the outrage over Obama scandals?
The Sun editorial board has basically ignored the Obama administration's lack of transparency, not to mention its mismanagement of the Benghazi affair and the attorney general's pathetic handling of the Associated Press and Fox News investigations....Tags: Fox News Channel (tv network)
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IRS decision on Villages' tax-exempt bonds worries residents
An IRS ruling that The Villages didn't have the right to use tax-exempt bonds to finance millions of dollars' worth of golf courses and other amenities has left residents worried they'll wind up paying a big bill. Retirees in the fast-growing development...Tags: Timothy Geithner, Finance, Politics, Bill Nelson, Bonds
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Mail Call - June 12
“Instead of the city and the county wasting money on studies and seeing where we can put a new stadium, why don’t they use that money to improve the roads and the streets? They are in terrible shape. It’s a wonder everyone doesn’...Tags: Blackmail and Extortion, Festive Events, Central Intelligence Agency, Elections, Taxation
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Column: Scowling face of the state
As soon as the Constitution permitted him to run for Congress, Al Salvi did. In 1986, just 26 and fresh from the University of Illinois law school, he sank $1,000 of his own money, which was most of his money, into his campaign to unseat an incumbent...Tags: U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means, Executive Branch, Peter Roskam, National Government, Computer Networking and Internet
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Liberties we cherish seem to be on the line
The revelation that the federal government has spied on millions of supposedly private phone and Internet communications makes President Barack Obama's headache over the IRS targeting of conservative groups seeking tax exemptions seem a passing migraine....Tags: Saxby Chambliss, U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Freedom of the Press, George W. Bush, News Media
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Trust the Constitution, not our government
Without the slightest hint of irony, President Barack Obama said last week, “If people can't trust not only the executive branch but also don't trust Congress, and don't trust federal judges, to make sure that we're abiding by the Constitution...Tags: Photography and Video, National Security, NBC (tv network), September 11, 2001 Attacks, U.S. Department of Justice
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The rejection of privatizing libraries by Lake County gave us an example of how a democracy should work when 200 citizens showed up and without saying a word helped stop the takeover. The Common Core standards experiment is a big gamble in education....Tags: Politics, National Government, Government, Elections, Barack Obama
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IRS scrutiny of nonprofits is hardly an unusual practice
What the IRS did to the tea party movement was wrong. But isn't uncommon. Organizations, some of which receive federal, state and local government money, along with individual contributions generously donated by well-meaning supporters are always...Tags: Family, Politics, Social Issues, Gays and Lesbians, Elections
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Offshore tax strategies may have fewer individual takers
Orlando lawyer Scott G. Miller says he used to field lots of calls from rich doctors and business owners who wanted to know how to fend off taxes and protect their assets from creditors by placing at least some of their money in an offshore account....
Tags: Orlando, Rand Paul, Finance, Maitland, Justice System
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Crisis of faith in government
— It is reassuring that in the midst of so much government dysfunction, the IRS has resolved the question of when and whether to tax tanning beds under the Affordable Care Act. Do not be concerned about that giddiness you feel. You are not having a...Tags: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Politics, Belief and Faith, Central Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency
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Letters to the Editor: Unwritten public policy, privacy, soccer money
'Unwritten public policy' The article "Rehire trooper who gave legislators break on ticket, hearing officer says" on Tuesday was a bit of an eyebrow raiser on several fronts. First is the matter of a publicly funded agency using something the Sentinel...
Tags: Sports, Values, Soccer, Public Officials, Small Businesses
Jun 13, 2013
|Story| Hartford Courant
Jun 8, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Jun 11, 2013
|Story| Orlando Sentinel
Jun 12, 2013
|Story| Herald Mail
Jun 12, 2013
|Story| Aberdeen News
Jun 12, 2013
|Story| Orlando Sentinel
Jun 12, 2013
|Story| Orlando Sentinel
Jun 7, 2013
|Column| Orlando Sentinel
Jun 12, 2013
|Column| South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Jun 12, 2013
|Story| Orlando Sentinel
Jun 13, 2013
|Story| Chicago Tribune
Jun 13, 2013
|Story| Orlando Sentinel
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