The Mutual Fund Reform Act of 2004 MFRA restores truly fiduciary fund governance, simplifies fund fees, confronts trading abuses, creates a culture of compliance, and eliminates the conflict-riddled shadow transactions that drive up costs. The essence of the legislation is not any regulatory regime it creates, but the market forces...
The article discusses the border security in U.S. after the terrorist attacks of September 11th which unsettled the public's confidence in the nation's security and raised concerns about whether the institutions are up to the task of intercepting and thwarting would-be terrorists. The Department of Homeland Security has made progress...
Gas prices will not rise as a result of a federal government decision to end a tax break on natural gas exploration, Treasury officials say.However, Treasury appears to have done little modelling or consultation into the removal of the excise exemption on condensate, introduced in the 1970s to encourage...
A manufacturing centre has been opened in Adelaide to help South Australian manufacturers become more productive and competitive.Federal Industry Minister Kim Carr on Monday said the Mawson Lakes facility, in Adelaide's northern suburbs, fulfilled a $20 million commitment from the Labor government.It was also part of a wider promise...
There has been plenty of uproar about the pending Delta/Northwest merger, but something happened in the Senate this week that shows just how far some politicians are willing to go to stop it. Though the legislative branch has no legal ability to stop mergers like this, it can try...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Prototype 1 of the Non-Line-of-Sight Cannon was unveiled last June 12 on Capitol Hill, in Washington, DC. A total of eight such prototypes will eventually be delivered to Yuma Proving Grounds, Arizona, by 2010. There, Army scientists will put the prototypes through rigorous testing...
Officials from the University of California-Davis sent letters to California State Senate Republican Leader Dave Cogdill and Assemblyman Mike Feuer (D-Los Angeles) on the re-release of a university study on firearms microstamping (now peer-reviewed). University Chancellor Larry Vanderhoef and Vice Provost Joyce Justus informed the elected leaders the findings of...
West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin III signed into law Senate Bill 9, which: directs the state Board of Education to develop a hunter education program for use in the state s public schools. An instructor from the state s Division of Natural Resources will offer the class over a 2-week...
AFTER hearing about Barack Obama's ties to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, Fr. Michael Pfleger, and the militant activists of ACORN the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, it should be clear to everyone that his extremist roots run deep. But the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee...
All changes marked with "***" MONDAY 7:45 AM: Sound check, final loading of staging platforms and risers. Balloons filled with helium and suspended in nets from the ceiling. ***7:47 AM: John Edwards Address--the former senator gives a rousing speech, sounding his signature themes of...
At a campaign stop in St. Cloud, Democratic-Farmer-Labor party candidate Al Franken, who hopes to represent Minnesota in the U.S. Senate, was greeted by an audience of one, which isn't all that much worse than he did as a radio host for Air America. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED...
Pelosi has clearly been feeling the pressure, and has recently said that she might allow a vote on drilling after all. Unfortunately, she wants legislation along the lines of what ten senators recently offered as a compromise. Their bill would allow very limited offshore energy exploration in exchange for over...
McCain showed off his "populist" side in a recent ad. The ad said that we are "worse off than we were four years ago." It also noted that McCain had taken on tobacco, oil, and drug companies. This anti-corporate posturing is, on the merits, pretty hard to defend: We would...
HYBRID CARS MIGHT be great for the environment and for fewer trips to your neighborhood gas station, but as a state senator from Long Beach points out, there is a hidden potential for injury particularly to those who are blind or visually impaired. These vehicles don't make any noise and...
By James Carlson THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL In a small room on the fifth floor of the Statehouse on Wednesday, eight legislators held in their hands the fate of one inmate's shower shoes. Ronald Allen Hailes, otherwise known as prisoner 39699, was taking...
By James Carlson THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL In a small room on the fifth floor of the Statehouse on Wednesday, eight legislators held in their hands the fate of one inmate's shower shoes. Ronald Allen Hailes, otherwise known as prisoner 39699, was taking...
By Jan Biles THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL DENVER -- Gov. Kathleen Sebelius said she will play the role of surrogate in the campaign to elect Sen. Barack Obama to the presidency after the Democratic National Convention is over. Sebelius made her remarks Wednesday...
Both legs were broken, his feet dislocated, and in the seats next to him the bodies of his friends. As Bountiful resident Dan Liljenquist came to after briefly being knocked out, he realized the front of the plane that he and 13 others were in -- which...
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 have also been dealt with following the rapturous reception for her barnstorming speech to the convention on Tuesday. Senator Obama's acceptance of the nomination before 70,000 people is set to be an extraordinary political event. The task at hand is...
Four leading education and educationtechnology associations have launched a print and radio Public ServiceAnnouncement PSA campaign, themed One Giant Leap for Kids, that asks thePresidential candidates to make K-12 student access to education technologyand modern learning environments a top national priority. Developed by theConsortium for School Networking CoSN, the International...
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