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Now that Air America's sleazy funding scandal has received more attention, how can we continue to demand full accountability from the firm? Here's where things stand: --- Since the company isn't denying it received at least $480,000 in taxpayer funds meant for a Bronx community center, why doesn't it feel the need to repay the money, simply because of a network ownership change? If any of the money was repaid, why won't they tell us? Some radio talk hosts have begun on-air campaigns to demand it be returned.

NEW ORLEANS -- Some money from Louisiana's program to promote sexual abstinence among young people was used unconstitutionally to advance religion, a federal judge ruled Thursday. U.S. District Judge G. Thomas Porteous Jr. ordered that the Governor's Program on Abstinence stop giving money to individuals or groups that convey religious messages "or otherwise advance religion in any way" in events partly or wholly paid for by program funds. One group even asked for hundreds of dollars for Bibles. But the state says such grants were stopped even before the judge ruled. Porteous' ruling came in a lawsuit filed by the...