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Overhaul Bill Leaves Fed With Even More Power
March 15, 2010 | NPR· Christopher Dodd, the Senate Banking Committee chairman, wanted to strip the Federal Reserve of most of its powers. But his latest proposal gives the Fed more power than it has ever had.
 
Turf Battle Opens New Front In Mexico's Drug War
March 15, 2010 | NPR· Violence has exploded in Mexico's northeastern border cities, just across the Rio Grande from South Texas, as two drug mafias engage in a vicious new fight for turf. Gunfights have killed dozens of people, and communities up and down the river fear it's just the beginning.
 
U.S., Mexico Vow Action On Slain Americans
March 15, 2010 | NPR· Mexican and U.S. leaders have vowed to track down the gunmen who killed three people, including two U.S. citizens, with ties to the U.S. Consulate in the border town of Juarez. Mexican authorities say they believe the killings are linked to the country's raging drug war.
 
President Obama Pushes Health Care In Ohio
March 15, 2010 | NPR· President Obama took a trip to the swing state of Ohio to push for an overhaul of the health care system. Although there is a multimillion dollar ad campaign for and against the measure, the strange coalition supporting the overhaul has stayed surprisingly intact.
 
Sen. Dodd Unveils Financial Regulation Plan
March 15, 2010 | NPR· Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd unveiled his plan to rewrite the nation's financial regulations. The bill released Monday calls for a council of regulators to oversee systemic risk and create a consumer protection agency at the Federal Reserve.
 

Art & Life from NPR

The Outsiders Who Foresaw The Subprime Crisis
March 15, 2010 | NPR· Michael Lewis, who wrote the bestseller Liar's Poker, is back with a new book examining those who profited from shorting subprime mortgages. In the The Blind Side, Lewis profiles extreme characters — outsiders — who are the sane people in an insane world.
 
'Top Secret': The Power And Struggle Of The Press
March 15, 2010 | NPR· Forty years after the events it depicts, the New York Theatre Workshop's revival of Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers once again opens the struggle of The Washington Post against the government to public scrutiny.
 
Will The National Broadband Plan Come Up Short?
March 15, 2010 | NPR· The Federal Communications Commission says the plan, set to be unveiled Tuesday, will help make Internet access faster, cheaper and more pervasive. But some critics are already calling it a missed opportunity.
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'Funemployment' And More Slang For A Recession
March 14, 2010 | NPR· Not much good has come out of the recession from which we seem to be slowly emerging. But at least it's left us with some new lingo, like "staycation." The Christian Science Monitor has compiled a list of its favorites, and guest host Audie Cornish explains a few of them.
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Can Working Moms 'Have It All'? Ha!
March 14, 2010 | NPR· In the late '70s and early '80s, Enjoli perfume commercials extolled the era's ideal Superwoman — a perfectly coiffed working mom who could "bring home the bacon" and still be sexy for her man. Three decades later, that ideal remains elusive for millions of women — including reporter Jennifer Ludden.
 

February 8, 2010

Round-Up: Surplus FREX Buses Sold, and more

The city of Colorado Springs has sold nine surplus buses from its FREX service for $1.44 million…Colorado Congresswoman Betsy Markey (D-4) is introducing a bill aimed at barring health insurance companies from fixing prices…and, U.S. Forest Service officials in Colorado are getting $30 million to help deal with the bark-beetle epidemic.

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Filed under: AP, Andrea Chalfin, Business, Capitol News Connection, Colorado Springs, Economy, Forest Plans, Health, Round-Up — Andrea Chalfin, News Dir. @ 5:32 pm
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