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| 1 | Palin e-mails suggest husband's role in governing | Nation and World |
| E-mails shed new light on Todd Palin's role while his wife was Alaska's governor, showing that the one-time oil field worker's advice was sought on board appointments and suggesting he was close to matters related to state government, his wife's image and politics. | ||
| 2/6/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 2 | Palin e-mails suggest husband's role in governing | Nation and World |
| E-mails shed new light on Todd Palin's role while his wife was Alaska's governor, showing that the one-time oil field worker's advice was sought on board appointments and suggesting he was close to matters related to state government, his wife's image and politics. | ||
| 2/6/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 3 | Palin e-mails show husband's role in governing Alaska | Nation and World |
| JUNEAU — E-mails shed new light on Todd Palin's role while his wife was Alaska's governor, showing that the one-time oil-field worker's advice was sought on board appointments and suggesting he was close to matters related to state government, his wife's image and politics. | ||
| 2/5/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 4 | Palin's shadow hangs over Alaska ethics debate | Nation and World |
| Attorney General Dan Sullivan has proposed broad changes to Alaska's ethics rules that Palin complained helped drive her out. One Sullivan recommendation that might sound familiar: Setting ethical standards for spouses and kids to travel with the governor or lieutenant governor at taxpayer expense. | ||
| 1/31/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 5 | Companies say Alaska gas pipeline could cost $41B | Business |
| Companies working with the state of Alaska to develop a major natural gas pipeline estimated Friday that the project would cost $20 billion to $41 billion, depending on the route. | ||
| 1/29/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 6 | Alaska governor takes aim at feds in address | Business |
| Gov. Sean Parnell took aim at the federal government in his first State of the State address Wednesday night, saying federal actions - on endangered species protections, issues of land access, health care - "often seem at war with Alaskan interests." | ||
| 1/21/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 7 | Alaska lawmakers focus on spending, oil incentives | Business |
| House majority leaders want to limit government spending this year, worried about what the expected, continual decline in oil production will mean for Alaska's energy-dependent economy. They were noncommittal Tuesday on key pieces of Gov. | ||
| 1/19/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 8 | Alaska governor pushes changes to state energy tax | Business |
| Gov. Sean Parnell said Thursday that he wants to give oil and gas companies greater incentives to do business in the state, a plan he says will boost production and create potentially hundreds of new jobs for Alaskans. | ||
| 1/15/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 9 | USDA announces signup for disaster program | Business |
| In getting a disaster program included in the latest version of the federal farm bill, lawmakers limited the program's cost, in part, by basing aid on a farmer's total income. | ||
| 12/24/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 10 | Fewer Katrina, Rita trailers but challenges left | Nation and World |
| Nearly 1,600 families in Louisiana and Mississippi remain in government-supplied trailers and mobile homes more than four years after hurricanes Katrina and Rita. | ||
| 12/24/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 11 | Aide: Emergency help for farmers not likely in '09 | Business |
| Chris Gallegos, a spokesman for U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran, said the House didn't act on legislation before representatives left Washington for the holiday break - and that means the soonest a package could be approved is next year. | ||
| 12/24/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 12 | New Orleans sells first bonds in 2 years | Business |
| The city of New Orleans sold its first bonds in two years on Wednesday, a $40 million issue to Morgan Keegan & Co., with the proceeds slated for local street projects. | ||
| 12/17/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 13 | Miss. Dem seeks 'any avenue' to pass farm relief | Business |
| U.S. Rep. Travis Childers said he fears it will be tough for many Mississippi farmers, hit first by drought and then by drenching rains, to survive financially without emergency help from Congress. Childers, D-Miss., is among the Southern lawmakers seeking at least $2. | ||
| 12/15/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 14 | Southern lawmakers seek emergency aid for farmers | Business |
| Some Southern lawmakers are seeking billions of dollars in emergency aid for farmers after recent natural disaster declarations in at least 20 states. | ||
| 12/14/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 15 | Southern lawmakers seek emergency aid for farmers | Nation and World |
| Some Southern lawmakers are seeking billions of dollars in emergency aid for farmers after recent natural disaster declarations in at least 20 states. | ||
| 12/14/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 16 | LaHood announces money for transit projects | Nation and World |
| The federal government is making available $280 million for street cars and other public transportation projects aimed at creating jobs and more walkable, environmentally friendly communities. U.S. | ||
| 12/1/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 17 | LaHood announces money for transit projects | Business |
| The federal government is making available $280 million for street cars and other public transportation projects aimed at creating jobs and more walkable, environmentally-friendly communities. U.S. | ||
| 12/1/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 18 | Fed disaster declaration lets La. farmers seek aid | Business |
| A federal disaster declaration announced Monday allows Louisiana farmers affected by early-season drought and late-season rains to seek emergency loans or other aid. The declaration, covering much of the planting and production year, April through October, affects all but one Louisiana parish. | ||
| 11/30/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 19 | 4 kids among 5 killed in La. crash; 7 critical | Nation and World |
| A minivan packed with 13 children and two adults was likely overweight and not designed to carry so many, police said Sunday, a day after the vehicle crashed on a highway, killing five. State police said the minivan likely blew a tire and rolled Saturday on Interstate 10 near Baton Rouge. | ||
| 11/29/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 20 | Soggy season could crimp sweet potato supply | Business |
| North Carolina harvested 45 percent of U.S. sweet potato acreage last year, followed by Louisiana and Mississippi with about 30 percent altogether. California accounted for 15 percent, according to statistics provided by the North Carolina Sweet Potato Commission. | ||
| 11/25/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||