I figured there was some reason Shelly let congestion pricing die in a back room and let his asthma-suffering constituents die more quickly:
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Report: Wireless Broadband to Generate $860 Billion over next Decade
(Roatti)
Productivity gains from people using wireless broadband services will generate $860 billion in additional gross domestic product in the next 10 years, higher than the $600 billion estimated in earlier findings from 2005, says the study, which was conducted by communications analyst Roger Entner at Ovum, a technology consulting firm. (For the study, Mr. Entner reviewed data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, talked to executives at wireless carriers and gleaned information from company financial reports, case studies and industry organizations.)
SEIU to Support and Recruit Primary Challengers with "Accountability Project"
(Roatti)
That's why SEIU is set to endorse a "Justice for All" platform during our June Convention -- a plan that includes $150 million and a 1/4 of our organizing staff budgeted to win health care, restore the middle class, work towards ending the war, and hold politicians accountable AFTER the election.
This also includes SEIU running and RECRUITING primary challenges in some cases. We consider our support of Donna Edwards to be a dramatic preview of the "Accountability Project."
Learn more about the central issues in the campaign, and how this works.
You should also know that in addition to Donna Edwards, SEIU sponsored a group of relatively unknown pro-worker candidates who ousted seven incumbent Chicago Alderman allied with the Chicago Mayor Daley political machine.
We really hope to foster a partnership with you in this project. SEIU is already a founding member of "They work for us," and we see this as a financial and organizational extension of that commitment.
In the wake of the failure of congestion pricing to go to the Assembly floor for debate or receive a vote (at least a public one), several Democratic legislators are singing a similar-sounding tune-the bad news is really good news.
In defense of the non-vote they point out that the practice of mulling things over in party conference has yielded many progressive victories by blocking consideration and (they claim) likely passage of a new capitol punishment law or choice issues like parental notification and consent
Without commenting on those specific issues, the problem with this explanation is that it's a tacit admission that the Assembly speaker retains top-to-bottom control over the body.
Please join
Host Committee Co-Chairs
for a brunch reception
in honor of
Rep. Vito Fossella
Republican, Thirteenth Congressional District of New York
Member, House Energy & Commerce Committee
Member, House Subcommittees on: Environment and Hazardous Materials; Telecommunication and the Internet; Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection
With Special Guest
Vice President Dick Cheney
Monday, April 21, 2008
11:00 a.m.
Guests please arrive no later than 10:30 a.m.
to allow for required security checks
At the home of
David and Julia Koch
740 Park Avenue
New York, New York
The documents offer no support for her claims, made during the presidential campaign, that she helped to negotiate the Irish peace accords or facilitated the flow of refugees in the Balkans. Neither is there evidence in them to back up her claim that she helped pass the Family and Medical Leave Act, the first legislation Mr. Clinton signed as president.
Fierce competition from new providers has pushed the level of broadband subscriptions in eight European countries above the levels in the United States and Japan, according to figures to be released Wednesday.
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The commission says the European Union added 19 million broadband lines in 2007, the equivalent of more than 50,000 households per day.
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In addition to the three Nordic countries and the Netherlands, four others - Britain, Belgium, Luxembourg and France - had surpassed the United States by July 2007. By January 2008, Germany had also done so.
In an interview Tuesday, Ms. Reding vowed to press ahead with an effort to give regulators powers to force the so-called incumbent telecommunications companies to run their businesses in a way that would make it easier for new competitors to enter the market. In countries like Germany and France, former state monopolies have fought fiercely against such a move.
Vitter: "There's an enormous difference" between Spitzer and me
(phillip anderson)
There are indeed differences. The first two that come to mind are that Vitter is a Republican. The second is that Vitter is still in office. Details here.
But in spite of the dire need for better health care, more electricity and clean water, a functioning sewage system and other services, the accountability office has previously estimated that Iraq spent only 22 percent of the oil money set aside for reconstruction in 2006. And in January, the office, which is charged with overseeing the Iraqi government's finances, reported that Iraq had spent a meager 4.4 percent of its 2007 reconstruction budget by August of that year, the most recent figures available at the time.
As a result, the letter from the Armed Services Committee says, "we believe that it has been overwhelmingly U.S. taxpayer money that has funded Iraq reconstruction over the last five years, despite Iraq earning billions of dollars in oil revenue over that time period that have ended up in non-Iraqi banks."
The letter was signed by Senator Carl Levin, the Michigan Democrat who is the committee chairman, and Senator John W. Warner, a Virginia Republican who is a former chairman. Senator John McCain of Arizona, the ranking Republican on the committee and the presumptive Republican nominee for president, did not sign the letter.
