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Wednesday Morning Coffee: State university faculty frustrated on contract talks.
Capitol Ideas with John L. MicekGood Wednesday Morning, Fellow Seekers. We're running a little late this morning, so we'll just dive right into a quick round- up of the day's political headlines. Think of this of the ADHD version of Capitol Ideas, which already has...... -
Pro-Connie Mack Super PAC launching TV spots`
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando SentinelFueled largely by Las Vegas casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, a pro-U.S. Rep. Connie Mack IV super PAC called Freedom PACis set to run commercials supporting him and attacking U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson on Florida TV. The PAC will be running the ads in Tampa and... -
U.S. casino mogul Adelson gambles on Madrid as site of EuroVegas
World NowU.S. billionaire casino mogul Sheldon Adelson has picked Madrid as the site for a massive new casino complex called "EuroVegas." The Spanish capital beats out rival Barcelona as the site of the $21-billion proposed project, which comes laden with... -
Paul Ryan's billionaire populism
Last Friday, Paul Ryan, the presumptive Republican vice presidential nominee, made the most populist speech of this campaign season. "It's the people who are politically connected, it's the people who have access to Washington that get the breaks," he...
Tags: ABC (tv network), Human Rights, Paul Ryan, Standards, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
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Will 2012 be the year American democracy dies?
Who's buying our democracy? Wall Street financiers, the Koch brothers, and casino magnates Sheldon Adelson and Steve Wynn, among others. And they're doing much of it in secret. It's a perfect storm -- the combination of three waves that are about to...
Tags: Companies and Corporations, Karl Rove, Republican Party, Economy, Business and Finance, Parties and Movements
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Billionaires, shadowy groups fuel pricey election
WASHINGTON (AP) — Billionaires, anonymous donors and shadowy outside groups funneled enormous amounts of money into this year's federal elections, as the cost of the presidential campaign surged past $2 billion and is expected to set a record....
Tags: Political Candidates, Bain Capital, LLC, Economy, Business and Finance, Human Interest, Political Fundraising
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Election is over, but 'super PACs' remain a threat
Just as the devil's finest trick is persuading you that he doesn't exist (according to the poet Baudelaire), the best trick of big-money political donors may be persuading Americans that Citizens United doesn't matter. Citizens United, of course, is the...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Christopher Van Hollen Jr., Karl Rove, Republican Party, Fiscal Cliff
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Bethlehem Sands Casino protest invokes memories of King George III
In November of 1788, right around the time some confounded colonials were celebrating what they called their 168th "Thanksgiving," King George III finally went off the deep end. Tormented by the ridiculous principles established by those troublemakers...
Tags: Bethlehem Steel, Bethlehem (Northampton, Pennsylvania), Lifestyle and Leisure, Career and Workplace, American Revolutionary War (1775-1783)
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GOP doesn't need bigger tent but needs to dump bad apples
Since last week's election, Republicans have been talking at a fever pitch about their big tent, and the obvious need to make that tent bigger in light of the defeat of Mitt Romney and so many others in the GOP. The dialogue is a dramatic departure from...Tags: MSNBC (tv network), Republican Party, Media Industry, Parties and Movements, Apples
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Here's how to fix our broken system
The 2012 election cycle was ugly and dirty, a cut below women's mud wrestling. It brought out the worst in all of us: We watched it after all. Supposedly, when Benjamin Franklin emerged from Independence Hall at the end of the Constitutional Convention in...Tags: Elections, George Washington, Voting, Twitter, Inc., Mitt Romney
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Huizenga, Adelson, Donald Trump and John Morgan (?!) pump money to Scott committee
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando SentinelBy Jim Saunders, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — Tapping major players in Florida politics, a committee closely aligned with Gov. Rick Scott collected $2.85 million in contributions during the past three months, a new report shows. The... -
Republicans' biggest donors
WASHINGTON (AP) — For a casino mogul worth an estimated $25 billion, $34.2 million may sound like chump change. Yet that's how much money Sheldon Adelson has donated so far to aid Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and organizations...
Tags: John Kerry, Titanium Metals Corporation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Mining
Dec 12, 2012
| Allentown Morning Call
Sep 11, 2012
| Orlando Sentinel
Sep 11, 2012
| Los Angeles Times
Aug 22, 2012
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Aug 8, 2012
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Nov 1, 2012
|Story| Petoskey News
Dec 9, 2012
|Column| Los Angeles Times
Nov 23, 2012
|Column| Allentown Morning Call
Nov 14, 2012
|Column| South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Nov 11, 2012
|Column| South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Jul 10, 2012
| Orlando Sentinel
Oct 19, 2012
|Story| Petoskey News
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