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Texas Political Consultant Gets 7 Years for Stealing Funds
2015-02-28 00:14:25| Electronics - Topix.net
Political consultant Kenneth "Buddy" Barfield was sentenced to 87 months in a federal prison for siphoning off more than $2.5 million in campaign funds from a Texas candidate running for a U.S. Senate seat, federal prosecutors said on Friday. Barfield was also ordered to pay about $2.5 million in restitution and $430,000 for back taxes, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Texas said.
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Who's who of national political reporters fondly remember Bedford's Wayfarer
2015-02-22 07:30:11| Grocery - Topix.net
As wrecking machinery tears apart the aging walls of the abandoned Wayfarer Inn, so too is a piece of New Hampshire history being laid to rest.
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United Kingdom: Real progress climate change needs trust between all political parties
2015-02-16 16:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: I became UK energy and climate change secretary in February 2012 that makes me the longest serving minister with this portfolio for 25 years. In this time, I have learned one lesson above all else: you can only make real progress on climate change with political leadership and trust between all parties. Thats why the new joint climate change agreement between the leaders of the three major British political parties Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats is so important. This cross-party...
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Australia's political leadership battle may revive carbon debate
2015-02-09 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott's tenuous grip on power has again put climate-change policy at the centre of the nation's political leadership struggle, raising concerns among miners and hopes for renewable energy advocates. Abbott, a climate-change sceptic, faces a vote on his leadership of the conservative Liberal Party on Monday, which could invite a challenge from former environment minister Malcolm Turnbull, the man he ousted as party leader in 2009. Abbott's vehement opposition...
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Australian windfarms face $13 billion wipeout from political impasse
2015-02-08 02:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Australia faces a A$17 billion ($13.3 billion) exodus of investment from its windfarm industry because of a political deadlock, threatening to deal the country a major economic blow and kill hopes of meeting a self-imposed clean energy target. Some 44 Australian windfarm projects, about half overseas-funded, have been shelved since a new conservative government said it wanted to cut state support for the industry a year ago, with investors and operators saying they are considering either downscaling...
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