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• New York Times: That Tap Water Is Legal but May Be Unhealthy

  —Kevin Dayhoff

  
  That Tap Water Is Legal but May Be Unhealthy By CHARLES DUHIGG
  
  The 35-year-old federal law regulating tap water is so out of date that the water Americans drink can pose serious health risks -- and still be legal.
  
  [www.nytimes.com]
  
  20091217 [...]

  Posted: December 18, 2009, 12:24am EST
  

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• That Tap Water Is Legal but May Be Unhealthy

  —Delusional Duck

  The 35-year-old federal law regulating tap water is so out of date that the water Americans drink can pose what scientists say are serious health risks — and still be legal. Only 91 contaminants are regulated by the Safe Drinking Water Act, yet more than 60,000 chemicals are used within [...]

  Posted: December 17, 2009, 8:25pm EST
  

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• Tougher, trained and tutored

  —Delusional Duck

  Graduating cadets at Maryland Guard’s last-chance high school celebrate the changes they’ve undergone[...] Peters and 100 other “at-risk” teenagers from Maryland and the District had just returned from the base theater, also at Aberdeen Proving Ground, where they graduated as Class 33 of the National Guard’s Freestate Challenge Academy. For 22 [...]

  Posted: December 15, 2009, 6:23am EST
  

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• Catholic Charities of Baltimore – A Story of Hope for the Holidays

  —Inside Charm City: Baltimore, Maryland blog

  Catholic Charities of Baltimore has just launched a two-part video series to share the stories of Tiffany and Rickey. Two formerly at-risk members of the community, who through Catholic Charities’ service programs, were given a second chance at life. This week, we’d like to introduce Tiffany, a woman who was [...]

  Posted: December 14, 2009, 2:00pm EST
  by Stan Moore

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• Lieberman Still Will Filibuster Obamacare

  —Hedgehog Report

  It will be a busy morning for me as our office relocated this weekend and I am going to be spending most of the morning unpacking. One news item from MSNBC/AP that will to make Harry Reid's morning.Risking the wrath of Democrats, Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., threatened Sunday to ... [...]

  Fetched: December 14, 2009, 7:21am EST
  

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• Dems to lift debt ceiling by $1.8 trillion, fear 2010 backlash

  —Baltimore Reporter

  From Politico By DAVID ROGERS In a bold but risky year-end strategy, Democrats are preparing to raise the federal debt ceiling by as much as $1.8 trillion before New Year’s rather than have to face the issue again prior to the 2010 elections. “We’ve incurred this debt. We have to pay our [...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 10:32pm EST
  by Robert Farrow

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• Dems to lift debt ceiling by $1.8 trillion, fear 2010 backlash

  —Delusional Duck

  In a bold but risky year-end strategy, Democrats are preparing to raise the federal debt ceiling by as much as $1.8 trillion before New Year’s rather than have to face the issue again prior to the 2010 elections. “We’ve incurred this debt. We have to pay our bills,” House Majority [...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 8:06pm EST
  

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• Baltimore NAEP scores better than expected

  —The Sun: InsideEd

  Baltimore's scores on a NAEP math test were better than many educators might have expected. For the first time, Baltimore volunteered to be one of 18 cities where the NAEP is given to a large  sample of students so that results can be compared to other districts. It was a risky [...]

  Posted: December 08, 2009, 1:42pm EST
  

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• In Marin County, a Public Fight Over Private Control of Sewage

  —Delusional Duck

  Pam Welsh was a retired risk management analyst immersed in her family’s life when she learned this year that her Marin County bedroom community was considering a contract to have the world’s largest water company operate the local sewage plant. [...] But money is just one metric for these systems, which are [...]

  Posted: December 04, 2009, 7:57am EST
  

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• Credit Bureaus Impede Economic Recovery -- Group to Petition Congress

  —Carroll Standard

  NEW YORK, Dec. 3 /Standard Newswire/ -- The Consumer Credit Reporting Bureaus, which purport to help lenders evaluate risk, control the flow of credit and encourage fiscal responsibility, have instead played a significant role in destabilizing the economy and are impeding America's recovery.

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  Posted: December 04, 2009, 2:57am EST
  

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• Caption This Photo!!!!!!!

  —Salisbury News

  Number of comments: 16
  Click on image to enlarge, at your own risk! [...]

  Posted: November 30, 2009, 9:05am EST
  by joealbero

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• Caption This Photo!!!!!!!

  —Salisbury News

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  Click on image to enlarge, at your own risk! [...]

  Posted: November 30, 2009, 9:05am EST
  by joealbero

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• Breats Cancer screening: is it health care rationing?

  —Beltway Progressive

  Breast cancer screening has risks - risks of exposure to unnecessary procedures like biopsies, that have risks of their own. When healthy women get biopsied and the biopsy goes wrong - produces infection and scarring, for example - the risks outweigh the benefits. That is why asymptomatic healthy women with [...]

  Posted: November 27, 2009, 10:53am EST
  

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• GlaxoSmithKline Recalls H1N1 Vaccine In Canada Over 'Life-Threatening' Allergy Risk

  —Salisbury News

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  LONDON — The pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline says it has advised medical staff in Canada to not use one batch of swine flu vaccine for fear it may trigger life-threatening allergies.
  
  GlaxoSmithKline spokeswoman Gwenan White said Tuesday the company issued the advice after reports [...]

  Posted: November 24, 2009, 12:24pm EST
  by joealbero

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• Politicians parade before 2010 election

  —The Silver Spring Penguin

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  A dry, brisk November morning brought out all the fixtures of a Thanksgiving parade -- floats, big balloons, and local politicians up for re-election. [...]

  Posted: November 23, 2009, 2:56pm EST
  by Jennifer Deseo

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• The mortgage crisis deepens

  —Delusional Duck

  The mortgage crisis has worsened to the point that about one in every 10 prime borrowers in Maryland and nationwide - homeowners judged to be good credit risks - were behind on payments in September. The Mortgage Bankers Association, releasing those numbers Thursday, blamed unemployment, which is at a 26-year high [...]

  Posted: November 21, 2009, 6:56am EST
  

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• County Employees at Risk

  —Maryland Politics Watch

  The awful condition of the state budget has attracted a lot of attention in recent months. But the county budgets are not doing much better. And one constituency is going to pay the price as much or more than anyone: county employees.
  
  Below are the salary increases granted by [...]

  Posted: November 18, 2009, 2:00pm EST
  

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• Fire up the corn stove, and pay less for heat

  —Delusional Duck

  On a brisk fall night here, Brent Bolin fires up his corn-burning stove. “It’s great you can have some heat while you’re sitting in your living room or doing whatever,” said the 33-year-old National Institutes of Health employee. “It’s a cozy, nice thing to have.” Bolin is one of several dozen Mount [...]

  Posted: November 17, 2009, 7:22pm EST
  

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• Report: Millions of couples, retirees may have to repay some of Obama tax credit

  —Delusional Duck

  More than 15 million taxpayers could unexpectedly owe taxes when they file their federal returns next spring because the government was too generous with their new Making Work Pay tax credit. Taxpayers are at risk if they have more than one job, are married and both spouses work, or receive Social [...]

  Posted: November 16, 2009, 4:04pm EST
  

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• China: Low US interest rates threaten recovery

  —Delusional Duck

  China’s top bank regulator said Sunday the weakening U.S. dollar and low interest rates are spurring speculation in stocks and property, distorting global asset prices and threatening the global economic recovery. The situation poses an “insurmountable risk to the recovery of the world economy,” Liu Mingkang, chairman of the China Banking [...]

  Posted: November 15, 2009, 11:18am EST
  

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• A Hunt for Seeds to Save Species, Perhaps by Helping Them Move

  —Delusional Duck

  [...] But assisted migration, as it is called, is a hotly debated issue. On one side are those like the botanic garden scientists, who argue that the risks are better than doing nothing. “We recognize that climate change is likely to be very rapid and that seeds only disperse a few [...]

  Posted: November 14, 2009, 3:37pm EST
  

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• Genzyme Drugs Contaminated

  —Salisbury News

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  Here is an article about drugs which are contaminated with steel and rubber.
  
  [www.bloomberg.com]
  
  Health Risk [...]

  Posted: November 14, 2009, 8:10am EST
  by joealbero

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• Word of the Day -- Triskaidekaphobia

  —Carroll Standard

  Triskaidekaphobia tris⋅kai⋅dek⋅a⋅pho⋅bi⋅a [tris-kahy-dek-uh-foh-bee-uh, tris-kuh-]

  –n. fear or a phobia concerning the number 13.

  Origin: [...]

  Posted: November 13, 2009, 2:16pm EST
  

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