• Truman Calls On Nation To Forego Meat Tuesdays, Poultry, Eggs Thursdays

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  Price ceilings on livestock, and Government requisitioning of cattle if growers refused to sell at maximum legal prices, were recommended yesterday by the National Meat Industry Council

  
  

• Op-Ed Columnist - Third Party Rising - NYTimes.com

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  A friend in the U.S. military sent me an e-mail last week with a quote from the historian Lewis Mumford’s book, “The Condition of Man,” about the development of civilization. Mumford was describing Rome’s decline: “Everyone aimed at security: no one accepted responsibility

  
  

• Rail Service Expansion Imperiled at State Level - NYTimes.com

  www.nytimes.com/2010/10/05/us/05rail.html?th&emc=th

  Republicans running for governor in a handful of states could block, or significantly delay, one of President Obama’s signature initiatives: his plan to expand the passenger rail system and to develop the nation’s first bullet-train service.

  
  

• floridaindependent.com/9529/south-floridians-show-support-for-ambitious-rail-sys...TBO.com - Florida News From AP

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  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- The U.S. Health and Human Services Department has approved 121 employers and unions in Florida for assistance in paying for early retirees' medical insurance.

  .South Floridians show support for ambitious rail system, despite the price tag « Florida Independent: News. Politics. Media

• On Sept. 22, Fort Lauderdale residents gathered at Holiday Park’s social center for the final public meeting on a topic that has long bedeviled South Florida — public transportation.

  For an urban area its size, South Florida has an atrocious mass transit system, consisting of a confounding series of buses; the TriRail system that runs north-south, but well to the west of the beachside population centers; and the Miami Metromover that seems more like a Disney ride than a viable public transportation option.

  
  PolitiFact Florida | Police union attacks Rick Scott's budget plan, saying it closes prisons and releases prisoners early

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  "Rick Scott's prison plan would cut Florida's prison budget in half, close prisons, and release tens of thousands of prisoners early -- murderers, rapists, sex offenders, armed robbers, drug dealers.

  
  

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  CNBC Financial Advice - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - 3/4/2009 - Video Clip | Comedy Central

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• Greening the Armed Forces - Multimedia Feature - NYTimes.com

  www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/10/05/world/asia/20101005-greeningarmy.html?th&...

  Greening the Armed Forces
  The American military, facing increasing insurgent attacks on fuel supply convoys in Pakistan and Afghanistan, is pushing aggressively to develop, test and deploy renewable technologies to decrease its dependence on fossil fuels

  California's First Passive House Named 'Green House of the Week' by USA Today -- SONOMA, Calif., Oct. 4 /PRNewswire/ --

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  First Passive Retrofit in the Country Open for Public Tours October 23 - 24
  SONOMA, Calif., Oct. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- The newly complete O'Neill Passive House, California's first certified passive house and the first retrofit passive house in the United States, was just named "This Week's Green House" by USA Today, and will be open to tour October 23 and 24.