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Florida Looks for the Lowest Bidder as It Privatizes 30 State Prisons
Florida is seeking bids from private companies to take over management of 30 state prisons in an 18-country area in South Florida. The "fastest privatization venture ever undertaken by …
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Six Extreme Right-Wing Attacks by ALEC in State Governments
“Model” bills voted on by corporations through the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) touch almost every aspect of American life. The Center for Media and Democracy has analyzed and …
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Jerry Brown Picks Goodwin Liu for California Supreme Court
California Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday nominated UC Berkeley law professor Goodwin Liu to the California Supreme Court, two months after Republican opposition forced Liu to withdraw his nomination …
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Nearly 4,000 Post Offices Might Close
The financially beleaguered Postal Service announced Tuesday that it would consider closing more than 3,600 of its 32,000 post offices. Continuing efforts to reduce costs by shrinking …
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Boehner Debt Plan Cuts Too Little, Forcing Another Vote Delay
House Speaker John Boehner was rewriting his plan to cut federal spending and raise the debt ceiling Tuesday night after the Congressional Budget Office revealed that his bill wouldn't …
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British Panel Wants to Hear From Three Men Who Dispute Murdochs’ Testimony
Rupert Murdoch, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, News Corporation, USA and Co-Chair, Annual Meeting 2009. (Photo: World Economic Forum) The chairman of the British parliamentary panel that …
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In Court, Suggestions of Hacking Beyond the News of the World
Front pages across Britain featured pictures of Rupert Murdoch apologizing for phone hacking at The News of the World. But further suggestions that the practice spread beyond his newspaper …
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Sen. Mike Lee: I Want America’s “House to Come Down” Unless Congress Votes to Rewrite Constitution
In an interview on MSNBC’s Hardball Monday evening, tenther Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) admitted that he is using the threat of a catastrophic default to extort the nation into …
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Murdoch Veterans Portray an Engaged Boss
It was the political scoop of the year, a damning, serialized exposé in The Daily Telegraph about how British politicians were abusing their parliamentary expense accounts to pay for …
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Glenn Greenwald: Norway Attacks Expose U.S. Media’s Double Standard on “Terrorism“
Numerous news outlets and commentators initially blamed the attacks in Norway on Islamic militants. Rupert Murdoch’s British newspaper, The Sun, ran a front-page headline that read, "'Al-Qaeda' Massacre: Norway’s …