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Details On Proposed Bill To Reduce Crop Insurance Subsidies
2013-03-07 23:58:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
Senator Jeff Flake, Arizona Republican, said yesterday, "The crop insurance program has turned into a huge taxpayer-funded boon for some of the biggest, multi-national insurance companies and multi-millionaire farmers. In a time of record deficits and an incomprehensible $16.5 trillion in debt, this program can no longer be justified in its current form." Grain Market Viewpoint read more
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Bill Clinton calls for health care price transparency, embracing IT to cut costs
2013-03-07 22:37:12| InfoWorld: Top News
Former President Bill Clinton on Wednesday called for transparency in health care pricing and addressing chronic disease epidemics such as obesity in order to drive down the cost of care for all. He also called for embracing IT and letting go of outmoded administrative systems. When Clinton called for transparency in health care pricing, the crowd erupted in applause.
Commissioner Fish testifies in support of Section 8 reform bill
2013-03-07 21:04:22| PortlandOnline
Portland City Commissioner Nick Fish was proud to testify in support of HB 2639, Speaker Tina Kotek's Section 8 reform bill, before the House Human Services and Housing committee in Salem on March 6, 2013
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A Communications Scholar Analyzes Bill McKibben's Path on Climate
2013-03-07 16:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Bill McKibben and I have been on parallel but very different journeys related to human-driven global warming since the greenhouse effect first became front-page news back in the late 1980s (examples here and here). (Our video chat above was done in December for my Pace University blogging class.) Years ago, McKibben shifted from writing to advocacy and movement building with the creation of 350.0rg. With his peripatetic campus-focused campaign for divestment in stocks of fossil fuel companies...
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Assembly Passes Hdyrofracking Moratorium Bill
2013-03-07 16:47:35| Footwear - Topix.net
Assemblyman Kenneth Zebrowksi co-sponsored legislation passed by the Assembly on Wednesday that will place a moratorium on natural gas drilling permits until May 15, 2015.
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