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- Tea Party, NAACP oppose Florida prison privatization plan
- With Tea Party Support, Rick Santorum Leads Mitt Romney in Michigan
- Texas now requiring meningitis vaccination for all college students
- White House Economic Adviser: ‘We Need a Global Minimum Tax’
- AT&T customers surprised by ‘unlimited data’ limit
- NYPD “Stop and Frisks” Hit All-Time High
- Gas prices’ earliest-ever rise above $3.50 a bad sign for motorists
| Tea Party, NAACP oppose Florida prison privatization plan Posted: 14 Feb 2012 11:39 AM PST From Bradenton Herald The Tea Party and the NAACP are at opposite ends of the political spectrum on a lot of things, but on one pressing issue in Tallahassee they are in sync: prison privatization. As the Senate prepares again to debate the controversial issue, the Tea Party and the nation’s oldest civil rights group have issued statements opposing the proposed outsourcing of more than two dozen South Florida prisons. The Tea Party, usually opposed to more government spending, isn’t buying the notion that private prisons save money. Henry Kelley of Fort Walton Beach, speaking for the Tea Party Network, a coalition of 80 groups statewide, said they are concerned about “crony capitalism and deals that ultimately turn out bad for taxpayers.” He said the Tea Party Network is not convinced that the bill (SB 2038) will yield the proimised savings, and that the group favors an amendment by Sen. Mike Fasano, R-New Port Richey, that would substitute a study or privatization for the plan itself. To read more, visit: http://www.bradenton.com/2012/02/13/3869858/tea-party-naacp-oppose-florida.html |
| With Tea Party Support, Rick Santorum Leads Mitt Romney in Michigan Posted: 14 Feb 2012 11:35 AM PST By KEVIN DERBY | SunshineStateNews.com Two polls released on Monday find that Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum has built a lead over Mitt Romney in Michigan — where George Romney, the father of the GOP presidential candidate, served as governor during most of the 1960s. Santorum has been rising in state and national polls following his wins last week in contests held in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri. Romney bounced back slightly on Saturday when it was announced that he had defeated Ron Paul by less than 200 votes in the Maine caucus — which he won with 52 percent back in 2008 while John McCain placed second with 21 percent. The two polls released on Monday found Romney could also be facing a meltdown in Michigan, which he carried by 9 percent over McCain in the 2008 Republican primary Santorum leads among likely primary voters in Michigan according to a poll by American Research Group. The poll has Santorum out front with 33 percent, followed by Romney with 27 percent, Newt Gingrich with 21 percent and Paul with 12 percent. Six percent remain undecided and 1 percent back other candidates. To read more, visit: http://www.sunshinestatenews.com/story/tea-party-support-rick-santorum-leads-mitt-romney-michigan |
| Texas now requiring meningitis vaccination for all college students Posted: 14 Feb 2012 11:29 AM PST
Former presidential candidate and Texas Governor Rick Perry has signed into law new legislation that requires all college students, including those living off campus, to get injected with a meningitis vaccine. The new guidelines, which reportedly received bipartisan support, require that all students under the age of 30 show either proof of vaccination or a signed affidavit of exemption before being allowed to come to class. Effective beginning spring semester 2012 for all students enrolled at both public and private colleges and universities across Texas, the mandate expands a previous one enacted in 2009 that requires only students living on campus to get the shot. And even though all students still have the freedom to decline the vaccination as a matter of conscience or for religious reasons, many of them are not being told this by their schools, and are just going along with it. Though the entire state of Texas had only 34 reported cases of meningitis among young people between the ages of 15 and 29 in 2009, Gov. Perry, the Texas Medical Association (TMA), and several state senators expressed vehement support for the new bill, S.B. 1107, which further expands the government’s reach into the personal health choices of Texans. Authored by Texas State Senator Wendy Davis (D-Fort Worth), S.B. 1107 is the companion bill to the earlier Jamie Schanbaum Act of 2009, which was enacted beginning January 1, 2010, in honor of Jamie Schanbaum, a University of Texas student who developed Meningococcal Septicemia that ended up causing her to lose both her legs and all ten of her fingers, according to reports. To read more, visit: http://www.naturalnews.com/034953_meningitis_vaccines_Texas_college_students.html |
| White House Economic Adviser: ‘We Need a Global Minimum Tax’ Posted: 14 Feb 2012 07:45 AM PST Gene Sperling, director of the White House’s national economic council, said today at an official meeting that “we need a global minimum tax”: "He supports corporate tax reform that would reduce expenditures and loopholes, lower rates for people investing and creating jobs in the U.S., due so further for manufacturing, and that we need to, as we have the Buffett Rule and the individual tax reform, we need a global minimum tax so that people have the assurance that nobody is escaping doing their fair share as part of a race to the bottom or having our tax code actually subsidized and facilitate people moving their funds to tax havens,” Sperling said. The White House adviser then said that more details would be forthcoming, though “not in gory detail.” To read more, visit: http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/white-house-economic-adviser-we-need-global-minimum-tax_626749.html |
| AT&T customers surprised by ‘unlimited data’ limit Posted: 14 Feb 2012 07:41 AM PST By PETER SVENSSON, Associated Press NEW YORK – Mike Trang likes to use his iPhone 4 as a GPS device, helping him get around in his job. Now and then, his younger cousins get ahold of it, and play some YouTube videos and games. But in the past few weeks, there has been none of that, because AT&T Inc. (T) put a virtual wheel clamp on his phone. Web pages wouldn’t load and maps wouldn’t render. Forget about YouTube videos – Trang’s data speeds were reduced to dial-up levels. “It basically makes my phone useless,” said Trang, an Orange County, Calif. property manager. The reason: AT&T considers Trang to be among the top 5 percent of the heaviest cellular data users in his area. Under a new policy, AT&T has started cutting their data speeds as part of an attempt to manage data usage on its network. So last month, AT&T “throttled” Trang’s iPhone, slowing downloads by roughly 99 percent. That means a Web page that would normally take a second to load instead took almost two minutes. AT&T has some 17 million customers with “unlimited data” plans that can be subject to throttling, representing just under half of its smartphone users. It stopped signing up new customers for those plans in 2010, and warned last year that it would start slowing speeds for people who consume the most data. What’s surprising people like Trang is how little data use it takes to reach that level – sometimes less that AT&T gives people on its “limited” plans. To read more, visit: http://apnews.myway.com/article/20120213/D9SSGLCO0.html |
| NYPD “Stop and Frisks” Hit All-Time High Posted: 14 Feb 2012 07:38 AM PST
The number of so-called “stop and frisks” is rising. City police officers stopped and questioned 684,330 people on the street last year, a record since the NYPD began yearly tallies of the tactic in 2002 and a 14 percent increase over 2010. It couldn’t be determined how many people were patted down during the encounters, according to the Wall Street Journal. Typically, half of the potential suspects who are stopped are frisked or searched. Of those stopped last year, about 12 percent were arrested or received summonses. The rest were not charged. To read more, visit: http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Stop-and-Frisk-Police-Arrest-Color-Civil-Rights-139275573.html |
| Gas prices’ earliest-ever rise above $3.50 a bad sign for motorists Posted: 14 Feb 2012 07:36 AM PST From The Morning Call American motorists have seen the national average for a gallon of regular gasoline rise above $3.50 a gallon on just three occasions, but it has never happened this early in the year. Analysts say it’s likely a sign that pain at the pump will rise to some of the highest levels ever seen later this year. In 2008, average gasoline prices had hit inflation-adjusted records nationally by the summer, but they didn’t climb above $3.50 a gallon across the U.S. that year until April 21, according to the AAA Fuel Gauge Report. It happened again last year, but not until March 6. But $3.50 a gallon gasoline is already here in 2012, weeks before refineries typically shut down for springtime maintenance, and weeks before the states switch from their less expensive winter blends of gasoline to more complicated and pricier summer blends. “This definitely sets the stage, potentially, for much higher prices later this year,” said Brian L. Milne, refined fuels editor for Telvent DTN, a commodity information services firm. “There’s a chance that the U.S. average tops $4 a gallon by June, with some parts of the country approaching $5 a gallon.” To read more, visit: http://www.mcall.com/business/mc-gas-prices-20120214,0,2776477.story?track=rss |
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