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Report: Senator sought work for ex-lover's husband
San Jose Mercury News
AP WASHINGTON—E-mails turned over to the FBI and Senate ethics investigators provide new evidence about Sen. John Ensign's efforts to find lobbying work for the husband of his former mistress and could add to his legal problems, The New York Times ...
Report: Senator Sought Work for Ex-Lover's HusbandNew York Times
Evidence Mounting Against EnsignDaily Beast
Ensign inquiries broadenPolitico
Roll Call (subscription) -Las Vegas Sun -UPI.com
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KATU
Kansas City Adopts Plan to Close Nearly Half Its Schools
New York Times
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Board of Education voted Wednesday night to close almost half of the city's public schools, accepting a sweeping and contentious plan to shrink the system in the face of dwindling enrollment, ...
KC board approves plan to close 26 schoolsKansas City Star
Kansas City, Mo., closing nearly half its schoolsThe Associated Press
Mass school closures approved in Kansas City, Mo.Atlanta Journal Constitution
Wall Street Journal -KCTV Kansas City -fox4kc.com
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'Big Love' Creators Acknowledge Their Soapy Fourth Season
TV Squad (blog)
If you found the fourth season of HBO's polygamist drama 'Big Love' a little heavy on the soapy side, you're not alone. The show's creators saw the same ...

Washington Times
Some Democrats take pass on St. Louis Obama rally
Washington Times
The Show Me State temporarily became the No-Show State on Wednesday as some prominent Missouri Democrats decided they'd rather be somewhere else when President Obama came to push his massive health care overhaul plan. ...
Meet Me in St. Louis - Or NotFOXNews (blog)
A Fund-Raiser, Minus the CandidateNew York Times (blog)
Odds and ends from President Barack Obama's speech at St. Charles High SchoolSt. Louis Post-Dispatch (blog)
Kansas City Star -Politico -Bizjournals.com
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CBS News
Miss. prom canceled after lesbian's date request
USA Today
By Matthew Sharpe for The (Jackson, Miss.) Clarion-Ledger By Chris Joyner, USA TODAY JACKSON, Miss. — A Mississippi county school board announced Wednesday it would cancel its upcoming prom after a gay student petitioned to bring a same-sex date to the ...
Miss. school prom off after lesbian's date requestThe Associated Press
Prom date debateWTVA
IAHS cancels prom amid controversyWTVA

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SDNN
Obama decries waste, fraud in gov't health system
The Associated Press
ST. CHARLES, Mo. — President Barack Obama denounced waste, inefficiency and downright fraud in the government's health care system on Wednesday as he sought to rally public support for his revamped overhaul plan. "Improper payments cost taxpayers ...
White House Expands Program to Fight Fraud and WasteMedPage Today
Obama takes health care overhaul push to MissouriKGAN
President Obama to Call for New Program to Fight Medicare and Medicaid FraudNewsHour
St. Louis Post-Dispatch -KMOX.com -Lexington Dispatch
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Washington Times
Va. gov counters state atty. gen.'s advice on gays
The Associated Press
RICHMOND, Va. — Gov. Bob McDonnell directed state agencies not to discriminate against gay people in employment practices Wednesday, essentially overriding the Virginia attorney general's advice to public colleges. The governor issued the written ...
From McDonnell, A Turn On Sexual OrientationAtlantic Online
Northern Virginia jurisdictions win homeland security fundsBizjournals.com
Virginia Bans Mandatory Health InsuranceMedPage Today
Santa Rosa Press Democrat -Falls Church News Press -Washington Business Journal
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WNCT
Obama welcomes Senate backing for jobless aid
Reuters
WASHINGTON, March 10 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Wednesday welcomed a $149 billion package of jobless aid passed by the US Senate and voiced gratitude for the bipartisan support that the measures attracted. "I am grateful to senators in both ...
Senate passes unemployment tax relief billBaltimore Business Journal
Senate Passes Bill to Send More Benefits to Recipients Jobless For More Than 6 ...FOXNews
Senate votes to alter jobless benefits for stimulus fundsBaltimore Sun
Orlando Sentinel (blog) -Journal Record (subscription) -NPR (blog)
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BIG LOVE Taking Over NBC's THE OFFICE?
Small Screen Scoop
Is it more “Pilgrim” or “Polygamist”? I can't decide. Ryan hates it and writes on his blog, “The photo is cut off at the calf because these drones have no ...

PopMatters
Big Love- Season Finale Episode 9-4
Inside Pulse (blog)
As Bill was just days away from winning the election, the media was exposing a heinous polygamy sect that inbreeds by swapping eggs from young fertile girls ...
'Big Love': disillusioned but still smittenLos Angeles Times

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Reuters
House Leaders Bar Earmarks to For-Profit Companies
New York Times
WASHINGTON — House Democratic leaders said on Wednesday that they would no longer dole out budget “earmarks” to profit-making companies, wiping out one of the most lucrative and controversial means of awarding no-bid contracts to ...
US House bans some earmarks amid ethics concernsReuters
House Democrats ban earmarks for private contractorsWashington Post
Amid scandals, Democratic leaders ban for-profit earmarksUSA Today
The Associated Press -Wall Street Journal -Majority In Mississippi
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Lynchburg News and Advance
Va OKs 1st bill banning mandated health coverage
The Associated Press
RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia's General Assembly is the first in the nation to approve legislation that bucks any attempt by President Barack Obama and Congress to implement the national health care overhaul in states like Virginia. ...
Va. Senate OKs ethics overhaul; McDonnell to signThe Virginian-Pilot
Legislation Attempts to Make VA "Energy Capital Of East Coast"WHSV
McDonnell-backed Education Bills PassWJZ
Washington Post -Richmond Times Dispatch -WDBJ7.com
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Los Angeles Times
'Big Love': disillusioned but still smitten
Los Angeles Times
That's what the creators, and fans, of "Big Love" discovered over the last few months as a soap operatic tangle of story lines -- Bill's running for state ...

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France24
US Monthly Budget Deficit Balloons to a Record
Wall Street Journal
WASHINGTON—The US government ran its largest ever monthly budget deficit in February as the country's fiscal year-to-date deficit ballooned more than 10% to a record of $651.60 billion. ...
Experts Talk Budget Deficit, Wholesale Trade, HousingBusinessWeek
U.S. posts Feb. budget deficit of $221 billionMarketWatch
US Posts Record $220.9 Billion Budget Gap in FebABC News
RTT News -The Associated Press -Times of India
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KELOLAND TV
Panel Releases Proposal to Set US Standards for Education
New York Times
Culminating a year's work, a panel of educators convened by the nation's governors and state school superintendents released a set of proposed common academic standards on Wednesday. The standards, posted on the panel's web site, ...
Proposed Set Of Academic Standards Unveiled89.3 KPCC
Governors, state school superintendents propose common academic standardsWashington Post
Nationwide education goals to be proposedUPI.com
Ozarks First -The Associated Press -9&10 News
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House Democratic leaders ban earmarks for private contractors
Washington Post
House Democratic leaders banned Wednesday the practice of doling out multimillion-dollar, no-bid contracts to private contractors, a move that will shake up the lobbying industry that has come to rely on securing these so-called earmarks ...
Democratic leaders ban earmarks forUSA Today
US House bans earmarks to for-profit companiesReuters
House Democrats Ban Earmarks to CompaniesWall Street Journal
Politico -Roll Call (subscription) -Washington Post
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Uganda: Ear to the Ground - Wives, Concubines And the Many Faces of Our Politics
AllAfrica.com
The result is that Ugandan men are doomed to a life of appalling hypocrisy on the question of polygamy. They can have 10 mistresses, but not a second ...

TPMDC (blog)
Ex-Christian Coalition head won't run for Congress
AOL News
AP ATLANTA -Former Christian Coalition head Ralph Reed announced Wednesday that he has decided not to run for Congress in Georgia. Reed considered seeking the Republican nomination for Georgia's 7th Congressional District northeast ...
Ralph Reed not running for Congressmsnbc.com
Share this storyPolitico
Reed won't run for Linder's seatThe Hill (blog)
TPMDC (blog) -Iowa Independent -Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)
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The Daily Voice
Eric Massa
CBS News
Eric Massa, the New York Democrat who resigned from the House in the wake of a House ethics inquiry into charges that he behaved inappropriately with male staffers, told Fox News' Glenn Beck Tuesday that he did grope a staffer. ...
Massa to Glenn Beck and Larry King: 'I can't fight anymore.'Christian Science Monitor
Ex-Rep. Massa confesses to 'inappropriate' text messages in bizarre Glenn Beck ...New York Daily News
Little learned in Eric Massa's Larry King appearanceIthaca Journal
Press & Sun-Bulletin -The Washington Independent -Washington Post (blog)
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CNBC
US Sen Corker: no exemptions in new watchdog bill
Reuters
WASHINGTON, March 10 (Reuters) - A top Republican in US Senate talks on financial regulation reform said on Wednesday there are no special exemptions for particular institutions in a proposed new government financial watchdog agency. ...
Senate Banking Panel Wants to Add Fee For Big BanksCNBC
Corker Says Strength of Regulator Is More Important Than LocationCredit Union Times
Senate Revamp to Seek $50 Billion From Large FirmsWall Street Journal
BusinessWeek -Financial-Planning.com -New York Times (blog)
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