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$67 Million for 300 Traffic Cameras: Guess the City

reason.com

by Scott Shackford

July 18, 2013

It's Chicago, of course. And this is what the city gets after a bribery scandal pushed one contractor out of the bidding process.

The Chicago Tribune reports: Mayor Rahm Emanuel's administration finalized a $67 million, five-year contract to install up to 300 cameras to catch speeders around city schools and parks, but a slow rollout could mean as few as 50 locations operating this year, the city and vendor confirmed Wednesday. The program sold by the mayor as a child-safety initiative could eventually mean hundreds of millions of dollars in ticket revenue for the city. But Emanuel reduced his initial projection of $30 million in ticket revenue this year to $15 million, due to a combination of technical delays and the bribery scandal that engulfed the city's red light camera vendor amid a series of Tribune stories that began last year.

$7,060,259,674,497.51--Federal Debt Up $7 Trillion Under Obama

CNS News

by Terry Jeffrey

August 6, 2014

The total federal debt of the U.S. government has now increased more than $7 trillion during the slightly more than five and a half years Barack Obama has been president.

That is more than the debt increased under all U.S. presidents from George Washington through Bill Clinton combined, and it is more debt than was accumulated in the first 227 years of this nation's existence--from 1776 through 2003. The total federal debt first passed the $7-trillion mark on Jan. 15, 2004, after President George W. Bush had been in office almost three years.

$730M fed loan to Russian-owned steel firm withdrawn after GOP challenge

Michelle Malkin

by Michelle Malkin

January 6, 2012

Headline first, then I'll give you all the sordid background.

The Detroit News reports this afternoon that the Obama administration is canceling subsidies to Russian steel firm Severstal for production of advanced high strength steel for autos in Dearborn, Michigan. Pricetag: $730 million...

$737 million in green-tech loan to company connected to Pelosi family?

Hot Air

by Ed Morrissey

September 29, 2011

Americans still favor government subsidies to companies unable to otherwise compete in the green-tech industry.

may be especially true of Nancy Pelosi and her family, but not exactly for reasons of environmental improvement. Let's start with this report from The Hill, via Gateway Pundit and Instapundit, on the latest approved green-tech loan from the Department of Energy...

$75K Bail for Man Arrested With Loaded Guns Near Blackhawks Rally

nbcchicago.com

by Mary Ann Ahern

June 29, 2013

Just moments before the Blackhawks parade traveled east on Washington Street, Chicago police stopped a man in front of City Hall, checked his backpack and discovered two guns.

Officials say there's no reason to believe a Matteson man arrested Friday morning near Chicago City Hall with two guns on him was planning on harming anyone at the Blackhawks' Stanley Cup victory celebration. Still, 37-year-old Roger Harrison faces two felony counts of unlawful use of a weapon and one count of marijuana possession. Bail was set at $75,000 Saturday when Harrison appeared in bond court, according to the Chicago Tribune.

$800 Million In Futures Contracts Traded 7 Milliseconds Before FEDs No Taper Decision

voluntaryvirtues.com

September 27, 2013

$9 Billion in 'Stimulus' for Solar, Wind Projects Made 910 Final Jobs -- $9.8 Million Per Job

CNS News

by Michael W. Chapman and Fred Lucas

June 20, 2012

The Obama administration distributed $9 billion in economic "stimulus" funds to solar and wind projects in 2009-11 that created, as the end result, 910 "direct" jobs, meaning that it cost about $9.8 million to establish each of those long-term jobs.

At the same time, those green energy projects also created, in the end, about 4,600 "indirect" jobs - positions indirectly supported by the annual operation and maintenance jobs -- which means they cost about $1.9 million each ($9 billion divided by 4,600). Combined (910 + 4,600 = 5,510), the direct and indirect jobs cost, on average, about $1.63 million each to produce.

"Poster Couple" For Gays Rights Divorcing

nbcbayarea.com

by Irene Moore

February 8, 2012

When gay couples first sought the right to legally wed in California, they argued that they were entitled to all of the benefits of marital bliss. It was only a matter of time before that benefit extended to the right to split up.

Even as the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals found California's ban on gay marriage unconstitutional Tuesday, one of the state's first gay couples to tie the knot was calling it quits. Robin Tyler filed for divorce from Diane Olson on January 25. The pair were among 14 same-sex couples who originally challenged the ban in 2008.

"LAPD visited Michael Hastings' house prior to his death, were seen looking under his car" - Starting to make sense now people?

xrepublic.tv

July 14, 2013

Abby Martin takes a closer look at the death of award winning journalist Michael Hastings, featuring interviews with Michael's close friend, Joe Biggs, who suspects his death was not an accident, and Kimberly Dvorak, an investigative journalist who has been conducting an investigation into the anomalies despite stonewalling from the LAPD.

'3AM' Phone Call To Hillary From Libya Got A Busy Signal

CNS News

by Ken Blackwell

January 30, 2013

Hillary Clinton finally faced down her critics on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week.

She fired back at Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) when he tried to get her to acknowledge that the entire story of an anti-Islamic video inflaming mobs who then murdered Amb. Chris Stevens and three other brave Americans in Libya had been, to put it charitably, wholly unsubstantiated. All along, Hillary had acted as if this was someone else's issue. She was, after all, the Secretary of State who gets "1.43 million cables come into my office" a week. They're all addressed to me, she petulantly shot back. Now, just for a moment, let's consider that statement. Can she really mean she has put in place no system for determining what she must see? She describes a process she allowed to stay in place for four long years that apparently is like drinking from a fire hose. No, that would be 1.43 fire hoses.

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