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Air America is being investigated in New York for diverting federal funds--possibly "hundreds of thousands of dollars"--meant for inner-city kids and senior into the station's coffers.Um, why isn't the New York Times, which has spilled tons of adulatory ink on the liberal radio network, covering this scandal on its front page? Radio blogger Brian Maloney has the lowdown. Read the whole thing. He sniffed out the story when he spotted this tidbit buried in the NY Daily News about Air America being targeted in a NYC Department of Investigation probe of kids' and seniors' programs being ripped off in the...

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Copyright complaint. The jist of the article is this: Ford testified to a Senate committee on child support that he lives in two houses, neither of which are in the district he represents and that he has no legal residence in that district. The state Constitution requires that all senatorial districts "shall be represented by a qualified voter of that district." And predictibly, Ford is now basically claiming that the Constitution does not aply to him. The state AG refused to investigate saying (properly IMHO) that this is a Senate matter and that they should deal with it. The Senate...

Howard Dean's presidential campaign hired two Internet political "bloggers" as consultants so that they would say positive things about the former governor's campaign in their online journals, according to a former high-profile Dean aide. Zephyr Teachout, the former head of Internet outreach for Mr. Dean's campaign, made the disclosure earlier this week in her own Web log, Zonkette. She said "to be very clear, they never committed to supporting Dean for the payment -- but it was very clearly, internally, our goal." The hiring of the consultants was noted in several publications at the time. (snip) The partisan Democratic political...