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FREEDOM RESOURCE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING, INC. Freedom Friday: Vocational school shut down for running a "sweatshop"
Back on May 29, 2013, we reported that Goodwill, the national thrift shop chain, had come under fire for hiring people with disabilities using the federal minimum wage exception, while spending tens o...
Posted on 6/14/13 at 8:27 AM
RENEW ND Fargo area among America's fastest growing cities for combination of population, employment, and rising median wages
Of over 475 larger cities, the FM Metro is one of the fastest growing when combining these three categories: Population, employment, and median income. While not all growth is good, growing well where...
Posted on 6/13/13 at 5:39 AM
THE PERIPHERY The Internet and the U.S. Government
With every new technology comes the potential for either good or evil. How will the U.S. government's use of digital technology to spy be judged? Dynamite can clear the way for a new road through a m...
Posted on 6/10/13 at 8:54 AM
THE NEW FORTY Privacy - a fallacy rooted in outdated realities.
Hello folks...have you met the USA PATRIOT Act? You may recall it as the sweeping piece of legislation passed about a month after the attacks on 9/11. The Act is so voluminous that it is said no legis...
Posted on 6/6/13 at 8:51 PM
SOCIAL SECURITY: INFORMATION & UPDATES Sources of Social Security income
Last weeks 2013 Social Security Board of Trustees report press release stated, Income including interest to the combined OASDI Trust Funds amounted to $840 billion in 2012. ($590 billion in net contri...
Posted on 6/5/13 at 4:35 PM
NSA whistleblowers say agency casts wide net 
NEW YORK — Former employees of the National Security Agency say the publishing of a court order asking Verizon to hand over all its phone calling records for a three-month period opens a new window on an operation that has been in place for years and involves all major U.S. phone companies.
By Associated Press , June 06, 2013
Q & A: What you should know about NSA phone data program
WASHINGTON — The government knows who you're calling. Every day. Every call. Here's what you need to know about the secret program and how it works:
By Associated Press , June 06, 2013
Dorgan moderates discussion on Indian Child Welfare Act
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — The future of the Indian Child Welfare Act depends on the federal government's ability to work with state governments and ensuring that tribal courts have enough resources, the chief general counsel for the Department of Interior said Thursday.
By Kristi Eaton, Associated Press , June 06, 2013
Federal spy agency collects phone records of Verizon customers; senator says practice is 7 years old
WASHINGTON — A leaked document lays bare the monumental scope of the government's surveillance of Americans’ phone records — hundreds of millions of calls — in the first hard evidence of a massive data collection program aimed at combating terrorism under powers granted by Congress after the 9/11 attacks.
By Associated Press , June 06, 2013
IRS official: Lavish conference followed IRS rules
WASHINGTON — An Internal Revenue Service official at the center of the agency's latest scandal told lawmakers Thursday that an expensive conference held in 2010 conformed to existing rules, though he acknowledged it was not the best use of taxpayer money.
By Associated Press , June 06, 2013
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Interior allows more comments for drilling rule
WASHINGTON — Companies that drill for oil and natural gas — and their critics — will have 60 more days to comment on a new rule regulating hydraulic fracturing operations on public lands.
By Associated Press , June 06, 2013
Obama wants faster internet for schools
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama on Thursday will encourage American schools to engage their digital-era students by providing more laptops with high-speed internet connections and fewer textbooks and lectures.
By Reuters , June 06, 2013
Conflicting laws, IRS confusion creates taxing problems
WASHINGTON — A century of laws and rules curbing political activity by tax-exempt organizations has left us with this: One statute says to qualify, groups must engage “exclusively” in social welfare projects while a regulation eases the threshold to “primarily.”
By Alan Fram, Associated Press , June 05, 2013
Obama names Rice as national security adviser
WASHINGTON — Shaking up his national security team, President Barack Obama tapped diplomat Susan Rice as his national security adviser, defying Republicans who have vigorously criticized her faulty explanation about the attack on Americans in Benghazi, Libya.
By Associated Press , June 05, 2013
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Some Minnesota Zoo upgrades will wait
APPLE VALLEY, Minn. – The new Hawaiian monk seals at the Minnesota Zoo will have to wait.
By Associated Press , June 03, 2013
House farm bill would limit food stamp program
Senior citizens could be among those hardest hit if qualifications tightenThe U.S. House is expected to take up the farm bill this month, and food stamps will likely be a contentious part of the debate.
By Julie Siple, MPR News 90.3 FM , June 03, 2013
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North Dakota’s $1.1M bet on Alien Technology still pending
Equity stakes rare in economic development due to risks, expert saysFARGO – Four years after Alien Technology closed its Fargo plant, it remains unclear whether the $1.1 million bet state officials in North Dakota placed on the California-based maker of “smart tags” will ever pay off or even be paid back.
By Kyle Potter , June 01, 2013
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ND attorney general challenges added complaint in abortion case
BISMARCK – A district court judge who verbally committed last month to upholding a lawsuit challenging a 2011 abortion law should not allow a supplemental complaint to be added to the suit before he officially rules on the case, the attorney general’s office said Wednesday.
By TJ Jerke, Forum News Service , May 29, 2013
Hoeven: New proposal could provide federal funds for Red River Diversion
FARGO – A proposal to provide states with significant funding for infrastructure projects could provide for the federal share of the Fargo-Moorhead flood control diversion if it passed, Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., said Wednesday.
By Patrick Springer , May 29, 2013
Minn. child care providers challenge new state law in federal court
ST. PAUL – Minnesota child care providers who want nothing to do with a union are taking a new law to federal court.
By Don Davis, Forum News Service , May 29, 2013
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