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GM CEO Akerson paid $7.7M in 2011 | The Detroit News | detroitnews.com
Seeded on Fri Apr 27, 2012 2:30 AM EDT (The Detroit News)
General Motors Co. CEO and Chairman Dan Akerson earned $7.7 million in 2011, including $1.7 million in cash and about $5.95 million in stock awards, the automaker said Thursday. His official pay package was released in a proxy GM filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Com …
Dominion Virginia Power Offshore Wind Study Recommends Ocean Substations Be Added in Atlantic
Seeded on Wed Mar 14, 2012 3:07 PM EDT (Transmission and Distribution Magazine)
One offshore substation platform with two 230,000-V power lines is appropriate to transmit to shore every 500-700 MWs of wind-generated electricity constructed off the coast of Virginia, a study done at Dominion Virginia Power's request recommends. The report, completed by ABB …
A Resolution to Impeach Is Ready If Obama Goes to War Without Congress - Conor Friedersdorf - Politics - The Atlantic
Seeded on Mon Mar 12, 2012 5:46 PM EDT (The Atlantic — News and analysis on politics, business, culture, technology, national, international, and food – TheAtlantic.com)
Last week, after Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said that the Obama Administration would seek international permission -- but not necessarily Congressional permission -- before taking action in Syria, Jones submitted to the Committee on the Judiciary the following resolution:&n …
NRC approves first new nuclear plant in 3 decades - Sacramento Politics - California Politics | Sacramento Bee
Seeded on Thu Feb 9, 2012 9:11 PM EST (The Sacramento Bee)
WASHINGTON -- The nation's first new nuclear power plant in a generation won approval Thursday as federal regulators voted to grant a license for two new reactors at a site in eastern Georgia. Atlanta-based Southern Co.
The State Worker: Stanford study pegs California pensions' shortfall at $500 billion
Seeded on Tue Dec 13, 2011 9:26 PM EST (The Sacramento Bee)
California's three largest pension systems have promised $500 billion beyond their current ability to make those payments to retirees, according to a study released to today by Stanford University Professor and former Democratic Assemblyman Joe Nation and a student researcher. T …
Chris Matthews Slams Obama: He's Got 'The Worst Kind of a Notion of the Presidency'
Seeded on Wed Nov 23, 2011 3:13 AM EST (newsbusters.org)
What are we trying to do in this administration? Why does he want a second term? Would he tell us? What's he going to do in the second term? More of this? Is this it? Is this as good as it gets? Where are we going? Are we going to do something the second term? He has yet to tel …
Who are the real "crazies"; in our political culture? - Salon.com
Seeded on Wed Nov 9, 2011 3:35 AM EST (Salon.com)
One of the favorite self-affirming pastimes of establishment Democratic and Republican pundits is to mock anyone and everyone outside of the two-party mainstream as crazy, sick lunatics. That serves to bolster the two political parties as the sole arbiters of what is accept …
SunPower, which is building solar plant in SLO County, reports huge loss | The Tribune & SanLuisObispo.com
Seeded on Fri Nov 4, 2011 3:17 PM EDT (San Luis Obispo Tribune)
SunPower Corp., a San Jose-based solar power company that received a last-minute Department of Energy loan in September, announced today that it lost more than $370 million in its fiscal third quarter — more than double its second-quarter loss — and that its chief fin …
And Congress' Rich Get Richer : Roll Call News
Seeded on Wed Nov 2, 2011 11:43 PM EDT (Roll Call Daily - Breaking News)
Members of Congress had a collective net worth of more than $2 billion in 2010, a nearly 25 percent increase over the 2008 total, according to a Roll Call analysis of Members' financial disclosure forms. Nearly 90 percent of that increase is concentrated in the 50 richest Member …
Capitol Alert: Jerry Brown wants voters to approve his pension overhaul plan
Seeded on Thu Oct 27, 2011 10:59 PM EDT (The Sacramento Bee)
Brown's plan requires new employees and their employers to split monthly pension contributions 50-50.
Iraq war over, US troops coming home, Obama says - Sacramento News - Local and Breaking Sacramento News | Sacramento Bee
Seeded on Sat Oct 22, 2011 1:44 AM EDT (The Sacramento Bee)
WASHINGTON -- America's long and deeply unpopular war in Iraq will be over by year's end and all U.S.
California approves carbon trading system to combat global warming - Sacramento Business, Housing Market News | Sacramento Bee
Seeded on Fri Oct 21, 2011 1:52 AM EDT (The Sacramento Bee)
California has approved one of the broadest and most controversial components of its climate change law, pushing the state toward a low-carbon economy that relies less on imported foreign oil. The California Air Resources Board voted unanimously today to adopt rules for a progra …
Hilarious Talking Dog Video
Mon Sep 19, 2011 9:02 PM EDT
This is perhaps one of the funniest talking dog videos ever. As a child I had a dog that looked very much like this one....but his voice was different.
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Capitol Alert: Ron Paul wins California GOP straw poll
Seeded on Sun Sep 18, 2011 3:18 AM EDT (The Sacramento Bee)
Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul is the winner of a straw poll conducted among Golden State Republicans. The Texas congressman drew large, boisterous crowds of supporters for several speaking appearances at the state party convention under way this weekend at the JW Marr …
In Texas, Perry Outshines Obama - Investors.com
Seeded on Thu Sep 8, 2011 1:21 AM EDT (INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY)
Compared with Barack Obama, the man with whom he could be locked in a battle for the presidency a year from now, Rick Perry is a study in contrasts. Texas' governor, who was set to enter the race for the Republican nomination on Saturday, is 11 years older than the president, was …
Solar Company That Got Federal Loan Shuts Down
Seeded on Fri Sep 2, 2011 1:20 AM EDT (Manufacturing.net Headline News)
I have absolutely no problem with the development and implementation of alternate energy sources. I support it, I invest in it, and it is very much linked to my profession. But this is what happens when Government meddles in such an industry and attempts to pick the w …
Girl's clean water wish takes off after her death - US news - Giving - msnbc.com
Seeded on Tue Jul 26, 2011 7:55 PM EDT (msnbc.com)
Now here is a news story worth seeding! Imagine a world of people like this little girl. It is a terrible tragedy that she is no longer with us, but hopefully her spirit will continue to live on in all of us.
Obama on the Debt Ceiling
Seeded on Wed Apr 13, 2011 12:40 AM EDT (ABC News Blogs)
"The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure," he said. "It is a sign that the U.S. Government can't pay its own bills.
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