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Windy Ridge Park master plan considered
Mount Airy :: MD :: USA | about 22 hours ago
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A 90-acre park west of the town could become a home to ball fields, basketball courts or an amphitheater. Board of Parks and Recreation members and residents considered newly prepared plans for the park Thursday. Windy Ridge Park was bought from a developer...
Tags: master plans, Dick Swanson, Kelly Ziad, ridge park, proposed change, windy ridge, Mount Airy, Lobbying, Political corruption
Chamber's Donohue keeps cash coming in
Charlotte :: TX :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility Chamber of Commerce quit over the chamber's opposition to climate-change legislation. President Barack Obama denounced the Chamber for "spending millions" to kill a planned consumer financial protection agency. Tom Donohue, the 71-year-old president of...
Tags: Tom Donohue, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, U.S. House, Charlotte, Tom J. Donohue, United States Chamber of Commerce, Lobbying, ExxonMobil, Pfizer, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Chambers of commerce, Year of birth missing
FEC adopts rules for some campaign travel
Washington :: WA :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility The Federal Election Commission Friday approved revised rules for regulating U.S. campaign travel on non-commercial flights. The rules adopted Friday require presidential, vice presidential and Senate candidates, along with their authorized committees,...
Tags: campaign travel, commercial flights, Washington, Committee, Lobbying, Federal Election Commission, Political action committee, Politics
No, ACTA Secrecy Is Not 'Normal' -- Nor Is It A 'Distraction'
Seoul :: South Korea | 1 day ago
Credibility However, it's been pretty funny to watch the desperate attempts by industry lawyers to try to paint this all as much ado about nothing (with gratuitous swipes at those of us who have called attention to what's going on). One of the points they make is...
Tags: ACTA, MPAA, industry lawyers, South Korea, Seoul, Motion Picture Association of America, Lobbying, Negotiation, Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, Cinema of the United States, Cartels, Computer law
The Lobbyists' Ability To Control The Message
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility For way too long, we've seen how much politicians seem to rely on lobbyists to write the legislation, create the talking points and (at times) even deferring questions to the lobbyists themselves. Is it any wonder that lobbyists have become the new celebrities...
Tags: Congressional, congressional reps, Genentech, San Francisco, Lobbying, United States Congress
We will go to Alutrint, says environmentalist --
La Brea :: Peru | 2 days ago
Credibility Conrad Enill has sent several Alutrint reports to environmentalist Dr Wayne Kublalsingh, but the activist says they are all irrelevant. His comment came a day after he and three other anti-smelter activists staged a sit-in demonstration at the Ministry...
Tags: Alutrint, Peru, La Brea, La Brea Trinidad and Tobago, Trinidad and Tobago, Aluminium, Aluminium smelting, Electrolysis, Environment, Lobbying, Political corruption, Xi, Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting
McGurk inquiry calls for reform of political donations, funding
Sydney :: Australia | 2 days ago
Credibility Ms Gardiner said when asked about Ms Kenneally's professed lack of interest in Mr Haddad's meeting with high profile lobbyists. The committee outlined recommended protocols for the way lobbyists are to meet Government planning officials. "The report also...
Tags: Michael McGurk, Australia, Sydney, Jenny Gardiner, Nathan Rees, Australian Labor Party, Lobbying, New South Wales, Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Year of birth missing, Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council, Politics, Suburbs of Sydney, Badgerys Creek New South Wales
The pro-Israel lobby and antisemitism | Antony Lerman
Jerusalem :: Israel | 2 days ago
Credibility The pro-Israel lobby and antisemitism C4's Dispatches has been branded 'antisemitic', but surely Britain's Jewish community can cope with reasoned scrutiny? Lobby correspondent: Peter Oborne, presenter of Channel 4's Dispatches documentary Inside Britain's...
Tags: Israel Lobby, Inside Britain, Israel, Jerusalem, Peter Oborne, Antisemitic canard, Israel ￢ﾀﾓ United States relations, Israel lobby in the United Kingdom, Religious persecution, Lobbying, Antisemitism, Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Homeland for the Jewish people, Zionism, Nationalism, Jewish history, Politics, Palestinian people, Arab-Israeli conflict, Entertainment Culture, Fertile Crescent
Healthcare cos set for record lobbying in 2009
Washington :: DC :: USA | 2 days ago
Credibility It's not just spending on U.S. healthcare that's hitting record levels. Drugmakers, insurers and industry groups are on track to spend an all-time high of more than $500 million this year to influence Congress' revamp of the U.S. healthcare system. Lobbyists...
Tags: Washington, Health care in the United States, UnitedHealth Group, Healthcare reform, Aetna, Pharmaceutical industry, Business Finance, Health maintenance organizations, Healthcare reform in the United States, WellPoint, Health Medical Pharma, Politics, Pharmacology, Novartis, Lobbying, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, Pharmaceutical lobby, Pharmaceuticals policy, Clinical research
Group tied to DWP employees union sues L.A. Ethics Commission to block fundraising limit
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 2 days ago
Credibility Ethics Commission to block fundraising limit A 1985 local law bars political committees from accepting contributions of more than $500 if the group plans to use that money to make an independent expenditure for a city candidate. A nonprofit group closely...
Tags: independent expenditures, employees union, Essel, L.A. Ethics Commission, city candidates, Los Angeles, Paul Krekorian, Political action committee, Christine Essel, Lobbying, Independent expenditure, Labor
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