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Obama?s Inauguration Fund-Raising Tops $24 Million (New York Times)
Executives from Silicon Valley, Wall Street and Hollywood, as well as former Clinton supporters, have written checks of up to $50,000.
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Fumo friend is a principal at firm that benefited (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Mayors, governors, presidents. As a top Democratic fund-raiser, Philadelphia attorney Thomas A. Leonard long has had friends in high places.
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Kappstatter: Ex-party boss Rivera still in political game (New York Daily News)
Don't count ex-Dem Party boss Jose Rivera out just yet. He still has a small band of loyalists giving him juice on the political landscape.
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Beebe To Seek Cigarette Tax Hike To Fund Trauma System (The Morning News)
LITTLE ROCK -- Gov. Mike Beebe said Tuesday he plans to ask state lawmakers to increase Arkansas' cigarette tax to raise money for a trauma system and other health-related needs.
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Water Main Break Renews Unease Over WSSC Leadership (Washington Post)
The water main break that flooded River Road in Bethesda, stranded commuters and caused widespread service disruptions last month has renewed calls from state legislators to improve oversight of the utility that serves 1.8 million customers in Montgomery and Prince George's counties.
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Illinois GOP wants closer look at Burris, Blagojevich ties (CNN)
Did Roland Burris secure his appointment to Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat through some kind of pay-to-play politics of the very sort that have tainted the man who appointed him, Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich?
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Thailand’s Stock Index May Climb 33%, Kasikorn Says (Update1) (Bloomberg)
Jan. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Thailand’s benchmark stock index may climb 33 percent this year as Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva will boost spending and lower interest rates to increase consumption, Kasikorn Asset Management Co.
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Manila raises $1.5 bln in global bonds to boost growth (Reuters via Yahoo! Malaysia News)
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Policy Summary Links (EUActiv)
In 2000, Europe's leaders formulated a non-binding action plan designed to catapult the EU's economy into 21st century.
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Nigeria: PDP And Challenges of 2009 (AllAfrica.com)
Abuja — For the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Vincent Ogbulafor, and the other 42 members of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party, the past 10 months must have been not only eventful but more challenging than they had imagined.
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