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NEWS: Nov. 29, 2010
Incoming House Chairman's Goal: Shrink the Federal Government U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa of California, the Republican who will lead the chief House investigative committee, is planning to vastly expand scrutiny of the Obama administration by seeking new subpoena powers for dozens of federal-agency watchdogs in an aggressive push to cut spending and shrink the government. MORE: New York Times $2 Billion in Stimulus Funds Went to Big Polluters The Obama administration has doled out about $2 billion in stimulus money to some of the nation's biggest polluters while granting them exemptions from a basic form of environmental oversight. MORE: Washington Post
Sheriff's Death Ruled a Suicide The death of Sheriff James V. DiPaola in a Maine seaside hotel room was ruled a suicide by the Maine medical examiner's office. DiPaola had come under scrutiny over his plan to collect his pension and salary simultaneously and was the subject of a state Ethics Commission investigation. MORE: Boston Globe Massachusetts A.G. Investigating Probation Department Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley said she has opened a criminal investigation into rigged hiring and bogus promotion practices at the state Probation Department, assigning a team of prosecutors to "aggressively pursue" charges. MORE: Boston Globe Technology | The Nation Web Addresses Linked to Illegal File-Sharing Seized In what appears to be the latest phase of a far-reaching federal crackdown on online piracy of music and movies, the domain names of a number of websites that facilitate illegal file-sharing were seized by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. MORE: New York Times Most California Cellphone 911 Calls Now Getting Through Only 5 percent of California cellphone users who dial 911 are now getting busy messages, experiencing unconnected calls or being put on hold for extended periods, down from 42 percent in 2007. MORE: Los Angeles Times Glitches Delay Miami-Dade Jail Kiosks Software snags have delayed for more than a year a plan to allow Miami-Dade County jail inmates to use ATM-like machines to buy toothpaste or snacks and even file complaints against their jailers. MORE: Miami Herald
Gov.-Elect's Transition Team Is Heavy with Insiders Of the more than 170 people named to one of Gov.-elect Andrew M. Cuomo's seven transition committees or his new council of economic advisers, 84 are registered lobbyists or work for businesses, trade associations or labor unions that lobbied state government last year. MORE: New York Times Deal Paves Way for New NYC Schools Chief New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg reached a deal with the state education commissioner to save the candidacy of magazine executive Cathleen P. Black to be the next chancellor of the city's schools, agreeing to appoint a career educator as her second in command. MORE: New York Times Recount Beginning in Minnesota Governor's Race With certified results showing Democrat Mark Dayton with an 8,770-vote lead over Republican Tom Emmer in the Minnesota governor's race, a hand recount of the 2.1 million ballots cast begins today. MORE: Minneapolis Star Tribune
Mayor: Consider Stronger Ties with Federal Law Enforcers Days after an FBI sting resulted in the arrest of a man accused of plotting to bomb Portland's central square during a crowded tree-lighting ceremony, Mayor Sam Adams has floated the idea of cooperating more fully with federal law-enforcement agencies. MORE: New York Times Traffic Safety | Houston Judge Halts Removal of Red-Light Cameras A federal judge ordered that Houston's red-light cameras, which were rejected by the city's voters earlier this month, not be taken down while litigation involving the city's contract with an Arizona-based company to operate the devices works through the courts. MORE: Houston Chronicle Immigration | Oakland, Calif. Immigrant IDs to Double as Debit Cards Oakland is poised to join a handful of cities in creating a municipal identification card that is touted primarily as a way for illegal immigrants to prove their identity. But Oakland's plan will be the first in the nation to create an alternative banking system for the poor, with the ID doubling as a full-service debit card. MORE: San Francisco Chronicle Washington State Rejects Immigrant Fingerprinting Washington State has declined to allow the fingerprints of people booked into local jails to be checked against a national immigration database, a federal program that in the past two years has led to the expulsion of some 46,800 individuals from the country. MORE: Seattle Times >> More news, analysis, resources and events: GovManagement.com >> Follow GovManagement on Twitter |
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“Do you remember when 9/11 happened, when those people were jumping from skyscrapers? I thought that was awesome. I want to see that, that's what I want for these people.” Mohamed Osman Mohamud, the 19-year-old Somalia-born naturalized U.S. citizen arrested in an FBI sting on charges of plotting to set off a van-load of explosives in Portland, Ore.'s crowded central square, quoted in an FBI affidavit MORE: Portland Oregonian UPCOMING |
