Category: episode 7
Wednesday, 18 Nov 2009
WASHINGTON — The Federal Communications Commission began to lay the groundwork for a bigger federal role in the broadband business Wednesday, offering a glimpse of the hurdles the U.S. needs to overcome to improve the availability of high-speed Internet access.
MARION, Iowa (AP) -- Police in Marion and postal authorities are investigating the case of a mail carrier who was allegedly found drunk inside a residence while on the job. Police said the postal worker, 46, was charged with public intoxication Nov. 3 after she was found sitting on the kitchen floor of 95-year-old woman's house, eating leftover noodles from her refrigerator.
SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) -- Call it udder shock. A South Carolina woman who heard a giant splash in her backyard discovered a 650-pound cow had fallen into her swimming pool.
VDOT (AKA the Virginia Creepers) has paid more than $60,000 in court costs and appraiser fees to avoid paying out $30,000 in an eminent domain case.
h/t: Radley Balko
Here's a stimulus success story: In Arizona's 15th congressional district, 30 jobs have been saved or created with just $761,420 in federal stimulus spending. At least that's what the Web site set up by the Obama administration to track the $787 billion stimulus says.
There's one problem, though: There is no 15th congressional district in Arizona; the state has only eight districts. And ABC News has found many more entries for projects like this in places that are incorrectly identified.
The following series of events surrounds an advisory committe to the British government, which is supposed to provide the cabinet with independent advice concerning drug policy.
- 29 Oct: Professor David Nutt, chairman of the government's advisory committee on the misuse of drugs (ACMD), criticised politicians for "distorting" and "devaluing" the research evidence in the debate over illicit drugs.
