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AIDS drug waiting list shortens, but experts say numbers will rise again

By | 11.07.11 | 2:40 pm | More from The Florida Independent

The number of people on Florida’s AIDS Drug Assistance Program waiting list continues to drop, but with more than 3,200 people, the list remains the longest in the U.S.

Florida U.S. Senate candidate tells Occupy Wall Street to ‘Get off your ass and go get a job’

By | 11.07.11 | 2:06 pm | More from The Florida Independent

During this weekend’s Florida Tea Party Convention, Craig Miller became the second GOP candidate in Florida’s Senate race to insult Occupy Wall Street protesters.

Florida residents buck proposed immigration detention center

By | 11.07.11 | 12:23 pm | More from The Florida Independent

About 250 southwest Broward residents attended a Saturday meeting in the city of Pembroke Pines to tell local and federal officials, as well as prison industry executives, that they don’t want an immigration detention center built in their area.

Many of new Florida jobs in low-wage industries

By | 11.07.11 | 11:22 am | More from The Florida Independent

On Oct. 13, Gov. Rick Scott touted the news that Florida’s unemployment rate had dropped one tenth of 1 percent between August and September, saying in a statement, “Florida is headed in the right direction.”

Udall, Bennet push through bill to address Colo. fire-stricken land

By | 11.04.11 | 12:00 pm | More from The Colorado Independent

A seemingly innocuous and mostly administrative bill to swap fire district land for U.S. Forest Service land in Boulder County won U.S. Senate approval Thursday after being held up for more than a year.

 

Charred school buses in the wake of Boulder County’s Fourmile Canyon Fire. (Photo by Eric

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Credit unions benefiting greatly ahead of Bank Transfer Day

By | 11.04.11 | 11:11 am | More from The Florida Independent

Bank Transfer Day comes tomorrow, Nov. 5, but calls for people to take their money out of big banks and deposit it in community banks and credit unions are already having an effect.

The Credit Union National Association (known as CUNA) reports today that “at least 650,000 consumers across the More…

Wells Fargo leads list of 30 companies paying less than nothing in taxes

By | 11.04.11 | 10:48 am | More from The Colorado Independent

Wells Fargo & Co. tops the list of companies receiving the largest tax breaks since 2008, according to a joint study from Citizens for Tax Justice and the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.

Wells Fargo is one of 30 companies that paid less than nothing in federal corporate income More…

Democratic consultant Joe Trippi among those brought in by NYSE for ‘Social Media Day’

By | 11.03.11 | 4:31 pm | More from The Colorado Independent

It would seem to be the exact kind of thing the Occupy movement is protesting. High-paid political elites commissioned by the financial sector to battle against the interests of the public. The New York Stock Exchange, targeted in the digital-social-media universe as a main stage for the bad-acting finance sector, More…

Legislators call on American Crystal Sugar to resume negotiations

By | 11.03.11 | 3:01 pm | More from The Minnesota Independent

One day after 90 percent of union workers rejected the most recent contract offer by American Crystal Sugar, members of the region’s congressional delegations are calling for both parties to return to the bargaining table.

Cain campaign turning its attention to Iowa ground game

By | 11.03.11 | 12:25 pm | More from The Iowa Independent

Two initiatives were launched Thursday morning by a somewhat beleaguered but still popular Cain campaign that are intended to either speak directly to Iowa caucusgoers or provide a foundation for a better ground game in the Hawkeye State.