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Move to online public notices looms over papers
May 22, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The tough economy means the growing suburb of Apex can't replace some computers and police vehicles. So the town's mayor is pleased to save $13,000 by posting public notices of rezoning requests and major land development ...
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Norway, Japan prop up whaling industry with taxpayer money
Jun 19, 2009 |
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The governments of Norway and Japan are using taxpayer money to subsidize their unprofitable whaling industries, according to a first-time analysis of the economics of whaling.
New stem cell lines approved for tax-paid research
Dec 02, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Scientists can start using taxpayer dollars to do research with 13 batches of embryonic stem cells and the government says dozens more cell lines should be available soon, opening a new era for the potentially life-saving ...
Housing for homeless alcoholics can reduce costs to taxpayers
Mar 31, 2009 |
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Providing housing and support services for homeless alcoholics costs taxpayers less than leaving them on the street, where taxpayer money goes towards police and emergency health care. Stable housing also results in reduced ...
Ka-Boom! The sequel
Apr 29, 2009 |
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When two camera prototypes were tested in a bombing last month aboard a mass transit bus, not only was the Transportation Security Administration interested, so were the cities of New York, Washington, Chicago, ...
US lifts some restrictions on embryo stem cells
Apr 17, 2009 |
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(AP) -- When President Barack Obama eased limits on taxpayer-funded embryonic stem cell research, the big question became how far scientists could go. Friday, the government answered: They must use cells culled from fertility ...
US to fund research with some embryonic stem cells
Apr 19, 2009 |
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(AP) -- When President Barack Obama eased limits on taxpayer-funded embryonic stem cell research, the big question became how far scientists could go. Friday, the government answered: They must use cells culled from fertility ...
NY taxpayers to pay donors for stem cell studies
Jul 31, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Hanqi Miao said she wanted to donate her eggs to help infertile couples reproduce, but she acknowledged the money is good, too: She said she'll be paid about $5,000.
Windy City WiFi proposals solicited
Feb 17, 2006 |
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The city of Chicago plans to seek proposals for a citywide WiFi system that would be built without taxpayer funds.
Another bailout? Government pension insurer could be next, expert says
Oct 15, 2008 |
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Another multi-billion-dollar taxpayer bailout could lie ahead, this time to rescue a cash-strapped government program that insures pensions of 44 million American workers and retirees, a University of Illinois finance professor ...
Expert: Flawed corporate watchdog methods helped fuel economic crisis
Oct 09, 2008 |
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Archaic corporate governing systems that failed to ferret out risky business deals helped stoke the nation's deepest financial meltdown since the Great Depression, a University of Illinois business law expert says.
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