News Busters
on Thursday, August 13, 2009
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News Busters
Highest Paid Congressional Staffer in Connecticut
on Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Congratulations Jason!
After pulling down a piddly 27 grand as a staffer in 2001; landing a job with Joe Courtney worked out really swell!
Now you've hit the big time and at 151K are the highest paid Congressional staffer in the entire Connecticut delegation!
The five or six of you that make up the "regular visitors" here will find these sites interesting.
The Care and Feeding of Our Congressmen
Yankee Institute - (you might want to bookmark the page.)
Jason J Gross, Congressional Staffer - Salary Data
LegiStorm
One Very Tough Woman
on Monday, August 10, 2009
Democratic's Lose Powerhouse
Founded First Major D.C. Lobbying Firm Led by a Woman
Ms. Wexler began her unlikely rise to prominence in Democratic Party circles as a Connecticut housewife who joined the PTA and a local zoning board. By 1978, she had carved out an important role in the Carter White House and used her skills at compromise and negotiation to win support on Capitol Hill for the administration's legislative programs.
In 1981, she founded Wexler & Associates with two other two other Carter White House veterans, Gail L. Harrison and Robert Schule.
A tip of the hat to a tough feisty woman.
Read entire Washington Post article here.
Smok ing er Kills!
on Saturday, August 8, 2009
And you thought smoking was dangerous!
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A restaurant owner in southwest Turkey was shot dead after he tried to prevent his customers from smoking to comply with a new law on the use of tobacco indoors, Hurriyet daily said on Thursday.
A fight broke out after Hidir Karayigit, 46, ordered a group of customers to extinguish their cigarettes when they began smoking at his "meyhane," a traditional restaurant that serves alcohol, in the town of Saruhanli, Hurriyet said.
One of the customers shot Karayigit four times after he took away the group's cigarettes, said witness Hamza Havutcu, Karayigit's business partner who was also shot and wounded.
Turkey's government on July 19 introduced a nationwide ban on indoor smoking, including bars and restaurants, despite the fact that half of Turks aged between the ages of 15 and 49 smoke; one of the highest rates in the world.
"I'm deeply saddened that the first smoking-ban murder occurred in our town," Saruhanli Mayor Veli Yalcin told Hurriyet. "They either shouldn't have outlawed smoking or they should have outlawed alcohol along with smoking."
Gosh! When Cars Sell The Economy Goes!
on Monday, August 3, 2009
U.S. auto sales bolstered by rush to dump "clunkers".
Gasp! What a concept!!
Oh yeah........you did see that concept someplace before......here.
Another Stimulus Package? November 8, 2008
6 myths about the Detroit 3 November 20, 2008
Gasp! What a concept!!
Oh yeah........you did see that concept someplace before......here.
Another Stimulus Package? November 8, 2008
6 myths about the Detroit 3 November 20, 2008
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