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5 Minute Delay Scuttles Chance at $40 Billion Air Force Deal

A tiny, troubled aerospace firm and its Ukrainian partner have been disqualified from the bidding because they handed in their proposal five minutes too late. The companies, for their part, insist that their messenger had a few minutes to spare.
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Google Earth Used To Fine People With Pools, Again

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using Google Earth to track down about 250 “unpermitted” pools. And using the satellite imaging service has proved profitable, Riverhead officials have collected over $75,000 in fines from pool owners who never filled out the required paperwork.
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Is stimulus signage wasteful government spending?

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Some local officials are spending freely to post street signs that let people know the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act -- better known as the stimulus bill -- has funded a highway project in local neighborhoods, an expense that has Republicans blistering over why taxpayer money is being used to promote how taxpayer money is being used.
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Krugman: Not extending unemployment is heartless and clueless

The answer is that we’re facing a coalition of the heartless, the clueless and the confused. Nothing can be done about the first group, and probably not much about the second. But maybe it’s possible to clear up some of the confusion.
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Town votes to publicize names of people viewing porn in library

Quincy Councilor Daniel Raymondi has asked Mayor Thomas Koch to make public a list of people who have viewed pornography on library computers within the past year. The council unanimously approved a resolution on the idea last week.
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Obama: more stimulus, G20: reduce deficits, which do you prefer?

The president's remarks tempered the Group of 20's headline achievement at the summit, a deficit-reduction target that had been pushed by Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, the host of the meeting and a fiscal conservative. Although there is broad agreement that government debt in the developed world needs to be reduced, there is concern that cutting too fast and too deeply will slow growth and possibly spark a new recession.
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Today candy cigarettes are officially banned

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Today is the first day of an America without candy cigarettes. Banned by a smoking prevention law prohibiting candy and "fruit-flavored" cigarettes, the badass big brother of the Pez dispenser is officially contraband.
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Cigarette Tax Increased to Keep New York Running

ALBANY — New Yorkers who like to smoke will have to dig a little deeper to light up next month, after the Legislature passed a bill on Monday that will give the state the highest cigarette taxes in the country.
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CEOs to Washington: Spend on Energy R&D!

They're calling for $16 billion a year to be spent on energy R&D. That's more than three times the current Department of Energy research budget -- although last year's stimulus package included a one-time boost of about $37 billion for the DOE. Yes, it's a lot of money, but as John Doerr put it: "Americans today spend more money on potato chips than we do on energy R&D." Yikes.
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Government Doubles BP Leak Estimate To 60,000 Barrels Per Day

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The government just upped the Deepwater Horizon leak estimate to 60,000 barrels per day:
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Government to Use Direct Deposit, Stop Printing Checks - ABC News

On Monday the Obama administration will announce that all payments from the government will now be made to consumers electronically, ABC News has learned.
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U.S. Government to crowdsource challenges across all agencies

The United States General Services Administration, or GSA, will run government-wide contests on a new prizes-for-solutions platform, in an attempt to spur efficiency while motivating the public to participate in government in a real, concrete way. New York startup ChallengePost beat out seven unnamed competitors for the right to power prize-based crowdsourcing contests for government agencies.
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