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With $72.7 Million, ‘New Moon’ Sets New Opening Day Record

2009-11-21T15:28:00.001-06:00

Historic health care bill nears key Senate vote

2009-11-21T15:09:00.000-06:00

56% in New York Say State Likely To Be Bankrupt By Year’s End

2009-11-21T14:47:00.000-06:00

New York voters aren’t very optimistic about the financial solvency of their state, but they're also sending their elected representatives mixed signals. They oppose budget cuts in a couple key areas but are against tax hikes even more.

A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in the state finds that 56% of voters say it is at least somewhat likely that New York will be bankrupt by the end of the year. Twenty-one percent (21%) say it is very likely.

America's Healthiest And Unhealthiest States

2009-11-21T14:46:00.000-06:00

Forbes

Health bill opponents turn up the volume

2009-11-21T06:01:00.000-06:00

The Washington Post

The Fate of Commercial Real Estate

2009-11-21T05:56:00.001-06:00

New Geography reports:

A year from now, the landscape of America will be forever changed. The office and retail markets will be vastly different than they look today. Not much of it will be good. Five years from now, will empty shopping centers and auto dealerships remain shuttered or will they be rebuilt or torn down and their use converted to something more productive? Will our politicians cease their meddling in the market and allow the market to heal itself? These are questions that will haunt our economy for the next decade.

Congress Grows Fed Up Despite Central Bank's Push

2009-11-21T05:01:00.001-06:00

The Wall Street Journal

Richest dead celebrity: Bob Marley

2009-11-21T04:59:00.001-06:00

CNN Money

Muscle cars pull out of Chicago's McCormick Place

2009-11-21T04:50:00.000-06:00

The Chicago Tribune

Ohio Sues Rating Firms for Losses in Funds

2009-11-21T04:47:00.000-06:00

The New York Times reports:

Already facing a spate of private lawsuits, the legal troubles of the country’s largest credit rating agencies deepened on Friday when the attorney general of Ohio sued Moody’s Investors Service, Standard & Poor’s and Fitch, claiming that they had cost state retirement and pension funds some $457 million by approving high-risk Wall Street securities that went bust in the financial collapse.

Girl accuses Sacramento mayor of offering her hush money

2009-11-21T04:39:00.001-06:00

McClatchy reports:

Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson offered to pay $1,000 a month to one of three girls who had accused him of inappropriately touching her while she was involved in his St. HOPE Hood Corps program, the girl told federal agents during their investigation of Johnson's nonprofit St. HOPE organization last year.

The girl — unnamed in a newly released report by two ranking Congressional Republicans — was interviewed by agents Jeffrey Morales and Wendy Wingers with the Corporation for National and Community Service's Office of Inspector General during an investigation of St. HOPE's misuse of $800,000 in federal AmeriCorps grants. Investigators say the girl alleged Johnson had offered to pay her $1,000 a month while she remained in the St. HOPE program, but she refused.

The details of that federal investigation, not previously released, are outlined in a report released today by Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Vista, and Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, ranking Republican members of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and Senate Finance Committee.

Their report is critical of the Obama administration's dismissal of Gerald Walpin, the inspector general who directed the investigation into Johnson and St. HOPE.

Obama's friend: Mayor Kevin Johnson.

Catholic Church pushes, and some push back

2009-11-21T04:03:00.000-06:00

The Boston Globe

The Demcare bribe list

2009-11-20T21:29:00.000-06:00

Michelle Malkin

Alan Grayson and Eliot Spitzer take aim at the Fed

2009-11-20T21:00:00.002-06:00

Eclipp TV

Unburied bodies tell the tale of Detroit — a city in despair

2009-11-20T19:37:00.001-06:00

The London Times

Ski resort for super rich files for bankruptcy

2009-11-20T18:44:00.000-06:00

Reuters reports:

Exclusive ski and golf community Yellowstone Club, in Montana, has filed for bankruptcy protection, a sign that the financial crisis roiling the real estate and leisure industries is not limited to the low end of the market.

Berkeley Students Occupy Building in Protest Over Fee Increases

2009-11-20T18:41:00.000-06:00

The Wall Street Journal reports:

Students occupied a building Friday on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, in an escalation of protests over large fee increases at UC campuses statewide that echoed the unrest here during the 1960s.

The takeover by as many as 50 students and their sympathizers took place before dawn Friday, a day after the UC Board of Regents approved a 32% increase in student fees to cope with California's long-running fiscal crisis.

Campus police made three arrests in the occupied Wheeler Hall classroom building after discovering furniture and other items propped up against doors at about 5:30 a.m. Friday, a school spokeswoman said. There were unofficial reports of at least one person arrested outside for allegedly crossing a police line marked by yellow tape.

By Friday afternoon, the standoff continued, as an estimated 500 other students and supporters assembled around the building, despite a driving rain. They banged drums, chanted and cheered as some of the occupants of the building used megaphones from a second-floor window to shout encouragement.

Struggles of Blue America.

Intel: Chips in brains will control computers by 2020

2009-11-20T18:36:00.001-06:00

Computer World

Housing bust halts growing suburbs

2009-11-20T18:25:00.000-06:00

USA Today reports:

The recession and housing collapse have halted four decades of double-digit growth for nearly half of the nation's biggest rapidly expanding suburbs.

Twenty-four of the 53 cities of 100,000 or more that grew by at least 10% every decade since 1970 lost population from 2006 to 2008.

Fifteen are likely to end the decade with less than a 10% gain in population, largely because of recent losses. Among them: Bellevue, Wash., near Seattle; Coral Springs, Fla., near Fort Lauderdale; Fullerton, Calif., near Los Angeles; and Lakewood, Colo., near Denver.

"They will drop out of boomburb status," says Robert Lang, professor of sociology at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas. "Some boomburbs have gone bust; some are still thriving."

W.H. endorses Reid bill

2009-11-20T18:10:00.000-06:00

Politico

Whistleblower Video Reveals SEIU Ballot Fraud

2009-11-20T18:07:00.001-06:00

Big Government

Is the Fed Creating New Bubbles?

2009-11-20T13:35:00.000-06:00

Business Week

Chicago Police Sergeant Union President accused of stealing from police sergeants' union

2009-11-20T13:24:00.002-06:00

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

A Chicago Police sergeant was arrested this morning on allegations he stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Chicago Police Sergeants Association, sources said.

Sgt. John Pallohusky, president of the association, was the target of a joint investigation by the Chicago Police Department and the Cook County state’s attorney’s office, the sources said.

Officials are expected to reveal more details of their investigation this afternoon.

In 1989, Pallohusky was one of 11 people who pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor fraud charge in connection with a petition drive to put a 1986 nonpartisan mayoral referendum on the ballot, according to newspaper reports.

No word from master jewel thief and former Chicago Police Chief of Detectives William Hanhardt on this one.

Senate ethics panel clears Burris of illegalities, gives 'qualified admonition'

2009-11-20T11:19:00.000-06:00

The Chicago Sun-Times

For the Young, Giving the House ‘Back to the Bank’ Is No Biggie

2009-11-20T09:22:00.000-06:00

The Wall Street Journal