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• Mental health bill for vets' families advances

  - 2007-04-06

  DENVER - A proposed pilot program to offer mental health services to families of recently discharged Colorado Springs combat veterans cleared its biggest hurdle Thursday. The Senate Appropriations Committee unanimously approved SB146, which would create a three-year program in the Pikes Peak region before expanding it to...

  Tags: Benefits, Government, HEALTHCARE, Morse Plc., Sen., SOFTWARE, U.S. Senate

• Some smell monopoly in bill

  - 2007-03-13

  DENVER - Colorado Springs' newest state senator will lead the effort today to kill a bill that would let large retailers give special discounts on gas to their customers. Sen. John Morse, a Democrat elected in November, said such discounts are monopolistic and drive small independent businesses...

  Tags: Government, Morse Plc., Retail, U.S. Senate

• A furry tale ending

  - 2007-02-02

  Gray wolves are proliferating like rats in the Northern Rockies - - albeit, rats that can weigh 100 pounds, travel in packs and have an appetite for livestock and ranchers' dogs. The federal government's effort to reintroduce the animals has been a remarkable though still controversial success story, far exceeding...

  Tags: Government, Morse Plc., SOFTWARE, species, U.S. Senate

• It's Official - No Code Required for Ham Radio!

  - 2007-01-24

  To: BUSINESS EDITORSContact: Allen Pitts of ARRL, +1-860-594-0328 NEWINGTON, Conn., Jan. 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- ARRL -- Morse code will no longer be a requirement for earning an Amateur Radio (often called "ham" radio) license. In a ruling published in the January 24 Federal Register, the FCC announced the elimination of...

  Tags: FCC, Government, Morse Plc.

• States weigh immigration controls

  - 2006-01-26

  Frustrated by slow action in Congress, state legislatures are debating whether to increase border enforcement at their own expense, fine employers who use undocumented workers and get local police involved in deporting them. It's unclear how far the proposals would go because, like Congress, legislatures are divided on what...

  Tags: Government, Morse Plc., U.S. Congress, worker

• Section 404 implementation: is the gain worth the pain?(compliance)

  - 2005-05-01

  Following a Financial Executives International FEI-led meeting on Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 implementation, Financial Executives Research Foundation FERF spoke with several participants about their year-one experiences and their recommendations for year two. ********** Imagine being in the middle of a football game...

  Tags: compliance, Eaton Corp., FINANCE, financial, Government, Morse Plc., PCAOB, Regulations, Sarbanes-Oxley, SEC, The Dow Chemical Co.

• Fueling debate

  - 2004-12-22

  The article "The New Geopolitics of Oil" (Special Energy Supplement, Winter 2003/04) by Joe Barnes, Amy Jaffe and Edward L. Morse, unfortunately contains a good deal of old, in-the-box thinking, as well as a strange fascination with what they call "neoconservative" policy. They use the old chestnut that Saudi...

  Tags: Government, Iraq, Morse Plc., OECD, petroleum, reserve

• Island near Port Arthur, Texas, Used as Landfill Could Cost City Cleanup Bill.

  - 2004-01-13

  By Rachel Stone, The Beaumont Enterprise, Texas Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 13--An uninhabited island east of Port Arthur could cost the city a bundle if the federal government holds it responsible for contamination there during the 1980s. Pleasure...

  Tags: Government, Insurance, Morse Plc., U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

• Senate moves to jettison kicker

  - 2003-06-13

  Byline: David Steves The Register-Guard SALEM - Oregonians' cherished kicker tax rebates could end up in a government rainy-day fund instead of their own bank accounts under a measure approved Thursday by the Senate. Senate Joint Resolution 2, which was approved on a 21-7 vote,...

  Tags: FINANCE, Government, Morse Plc., Republican, revenue, Taxes, U.S. Senate

• From the Desk of Prof. Sidney Morse

  - 2003-02-26

  Is Michael Powell Bush's Unofficial Technology Czar? Washington insiders and those focused on the issue will recall that President Bush had signaled early in his Administration, the naming of an actual Technology Czar. Such an appointment was designed to indicate at least a familiarity with the growing significance this...

  Tags: Administration, chairman, FCC, Government, Morse Plc., NETWORKING, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Telephony