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Are ‘Zombie Buildings’ the Next Economic Calamity?
Bad Loans for Commercial Real Estate Threaten Regional and Community Banks
By Christine Spolar and Lagan Sebert from Huffington Post Investigative Fund & Disseminated by The Erie Wire

While the overall U.S. financial system is showing signs of stability, a rapidly rising tide of troubled loans for commercial [...]

 

 
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How Credit Raters Fended Off Oversight From Congress and SEC

By Ben Protess and Lagan Sebert of the Huffington Post Investigative Fund & Disseminated by The Erie Wire

2:49 pm | 11 Nov 2009
Editor’s Note: This is the second of three articles by the Investigative Fund on the credit rating companies. Read the first article here.

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Published on Friday, September 4, 2009 by the San Jose Mercury News (California) & Disseminated by The Erie Wire

A National Movement of Foodies, Farmers, Parents and Educators Is Pushing for Better School Food
by Dana Hull


There’s unusual lunchtime chatter at ACE Charter School in East San Jose: Students are actually raving about lunch. School lunch. [...]

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“The Treason of the Senate” (1906), David Graham Phillips
Rhode Island is the smallest of our states in area and thirty-fourth in population—twelve hundred and fifty square miles, less than half a million people, barely seventy thousand voters with the rolls padded by the Aldrich machine. But size and [...]

Consumer Agency Gains, But Foes Remain
By Amanda Zamora and Lagan Sebert
Huffington Post Investigative Fund
1:56 pm | 22 Oct 2009
The Obama administration’s plan for a new regulatory agency to protect consumers has cleared a major legislative hurdle – but it still faces strong opposition from Republicans, business interests and some federal regulators.
The Consumer Financial Protection Agency [...]

Ohio’s Issue 2
Published by the Purdue Beef Team of Purdue University & Disseminated by The Erie Wire
By Laura Schierhoff
In February, the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) met with members of Ohio’s livestock industry to discuss passing humane legislation in that state.  HSUS had its eye on Ohio to pass legislation to ban the [...]

A Year Later, Barofsky Says U.S. May Be In a ‘Far More Dangerous’ Financial Situation

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By Christine Spolar and Lagan Sebert
Huffington Post Investigative Fund
11:22 am | 25 Sep 2009
Neil Barofsky is the man who tracks the historic bailout known as the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP. The 39-year-old special inspector [...]

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How Dick Morris Is Making Seniors Feverish About Health Care Reform

Dr. Mark J. Cuffe, the narrator of the League of American Voters anti-reform ad.

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By Ben Protess and Lagan Sebert
Huffington Post Investigative Fund
4:40 pm | 24 Sep 2009
Standing in a medical exam room, a neurosurgeon in a [...]

Yes Men Get Desperate
Posted: September 21st, 2009
Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno were spotted yesterday on Lafayette Street, cajoling passers-by to go see their new climate-change epic The Yes Men Fix the World, opening at the Film Forum Theater on Houston Street October 7. The two notorious troublemakers sneak into corporate events disguised as captains of [...]

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‘The Age of Stupid’ is the new cinema documentary from the Director of ‘McLibel’ and the Producer of the Oscar-winning ‘One Day in September’. This enormously ambitious drama-documentary-animation hybrid stars Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite as an old man living in the devastated world of 2055, [...]

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“WE’RE SCREWED”: MEDIA HEIST BLANKETS CITY WITH “SPECIAL EDITION” NEW YORK POST
Tabloid Tells Truth About Climate Change and How It Will Affect City, World
Early this morning, nearly a million New Yorkers were stunned by the appearance of a “special edition” New York Post blaring headlines that their city could face deadly heat [...]

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In Reversal of Bush Policy, EPA Launches New Study of Atrazine’s Health Effects
By Danielle Ivory & Disseminated by The Erie Wire
Huffington Post Investigative Fund
4:59 pm | 7 Oct 2009
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Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) (Photo by Jason DeFillippo/jpdefillippo.com)

The Environmental Protection Agency today reversed its stance on the potential hazards of [...]

Outed! Will Obama Meet the Real FACES of Coal or Exposed Big Coal Front?

Published on Thursday, August 27, 2009 by CommonDreams.org & Disseminated by The Erie Wire

by Jeff Biggers

Question of the week: As Capitol Hill and the various Obama administration agencies hold meetings with coalfield residents and coal industry representatives, as part of their fact-finding [...]

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From the creators of King Corn comes Truck Farm – a vision to create a micro farm phenomenon.

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From tech stocks to high gas prices, Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression – and they’re about to do it again
MATT TAIBBI
Posted Jul 13, 2009 1:49 PM
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