At First Street Journal , ” The Economy Grew 2.8% For the 4th quarter, 1.7% Overall in 2011 .” And at Chicago Sun-Times , ” Economic growth not enough to sharply reduce unemployment .”
AP – The Obama administration hopes to restore momentum in the spring to U.S. talks with the Taliban insurgency that had reached a critical point before falling apart this month because of objections from Afghan President Hamid Karzai, U.S. and Afghan officials said.
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US wants 2012 talks for Taliban political office
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AP – President Barack Obama’s campaign expects to raise tens of millions of dollars less this summer than it did in the spring because negotiations over the nation’s debt limit forced Obama to cancel several fundraisers.
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Obama campaign expects lower summer fundraising
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Forty-six states began a new fiscal year after lawmakers spent the spring hashing out budgets that largely avoid big tax increases in favor of budget cuts.
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Higher Taxes Yield to Cuts in States
AP – Last October, the Obama administration announced plans to install solar panels on the roof of the White House by the spring of this year, returning the power of the sun to the pinnacle of prominence a quarter-century after Jimmy Carter’s pioneering system was taken down.
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PROMISES, PROMISES: WH solar panels are no-shows
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A peek behind the scenes of conservatives’ most anticipated movie of the spring season, via Reason.tv :
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Behind the scenes of ‘Atlas Shrugged’
Mights and coulds and maybes. Silly Louise Gray brings this breathless scaremongering. Researchers at the University of Alberta looked at how melting sea ice in the 1990s effected the breeding success of polar bears. During the spring and summer months the females are hunting seals on the ice to build up
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Globull Warming Could Decrease Polar Bear Numbers
