Civic watchdog selects ‘shame’ as 2011 word for legislature – Focus Taiwan News Channel

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Focus Taiwan News Channel
Civic watchdog selects 'shame' as 2011 word for legislature
Focus Taiwan News Channel
Chang Hung-lin, chief executive of the Citizen Congress Watch (CCW), said the word of the year for the legislature was selected through a survey of the non-government watchdog's group members, participants in CCW-sponsored garden parties and an online …
2012 ELECTIONS: CCW denounces legislature's year of 'shame'Taipei Times

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Watchdog Gets Info on Arizona Mayor’s Security – Courthouse News Service

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Watchdog Gets Info on Arizona Mayor's Security
Courthouse News Service
By TIM HULL PHOENIX (CN) – Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon must release 600 more pages of his police detail's activity logs to a conservative watchdog group, a state appeals court ruled. Judicial Watch wants to see all of the Phoenix Police Department's logs …

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Watchdog group urges delay in airport concessions – Atlanta Journal Constitution

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Watchdog group urges delay in airport concessions
Atlanta Journal Constitution
By Chris Joyner A government watchdog group has called on Atlanta officials to delay approving the concession contracts for Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport to give the City Council and the public more time to scrutinize the proposed winners. …
Common Cause: Airport bids need more time for reviewCreative Loafing Atlanta

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Common Cause: Airport bids need more time for review – Creative Loafing Atlanta

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Common Cause: Airport bids need more time for review
Creative Loafing Atlanta
Government watchdog group Common Cause is asking the city to slow down the ongoing process of awarding lucrative restaurant and retail contracts at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport to allow the Atlanta City Council more time to review …

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Watchdog group looks to stave off tax increase in Yeadon – Delaware County Daily Times

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Watchdog group looks to stave off tax increase in Yeadon
Delaware County Daily Times
By LAURA WISELEY YEADON — Calling themselves “watchdogs” for the community, a group of residents met Tuesday night in an attempt to pare down a projected $500000 deficit in a borough budget scheduled to be adopted by council tonight. …

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Italian Watchdog Group Fines Apple $1.2 Million for Misleading Customers – ITProPortal

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Italian Watchdog Group Fines Apple $1.2 Million for Misleading Customers
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An Italian anti-trust watchdog has slapped a fine of $1.2 million on Apple, accusing it of misleading customers. According to an article on Reuters, Apple has been ordered to pay a fine of 900000 Euros for failing to inform people they had two years of …

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ANOTHER CROOKED LAWMAKER CLEARED BY ETHICS COMMITTEE, SAYS WATCHDOG GROUP – The Cypress Times

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ANOTHER CROOKED LAWMAKER CLEARED BY ETHICS COMMITTEE, SAYS WATCHDOG GROUP
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The legal watchdog group revealed that Young needed the cash to fend off an influence peddling investigation that includes corrupt ties to an oil services company that bribed Senator Ted Stevens, the Alaskan member of the US Senate convicted of …

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Federal watchdog unrelenting in probe of Dover military mortuary – The News Journal

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Federal watchdog unrelenting in probe of Dover military mortuary
The News Journal
"There's this new air in the room with Carolyn in that seat," says Danielle Brian, executive director of the watchdog group Project on Government Oversight. "We've had people in that job who were actually hostile to the mission of the agency. …

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AP Enterprise: Nonprofits aiding Paul blur a line – Boston.com

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AP Enterprise: Nonprofits aiding Paul blur a line
Boston.com
"It sounds like it was a way to maintain a permanent campaign," said Melanie Sloan, executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a nonpartisan watchdog group. "These groups were never supposed to be political …

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Group continues to question sheriff’s ads – Jacksonville Daily News

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Group continues to question sheriff's ads
Jacksonville Daily News
A watchdog group that monitors separation of church and state issues is again questioning Onslow County Sheriff Ed Brown's use of his title and office logo in newspaper ads they say promote Christianity. The group, Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion …

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