... leadership and an attempt to cover up their incompetency. By February of 2015, a Flint resident notified the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of high lead levels in her home (CNN Library). The ACLU became involved and discovered tests performed by Virginia Tech University and the MDEQ indicating lead levels as high as 13,200 parts per billion (ppb) while the acceptable ... River. In October of 2015, the city switched back to the Detroit system for water supply. Not until January of 2016 did the governor declare a state of emergency (CNN Library). The incident attracted national med...

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... into the system, this and other victories would change national politics forever. Freedom of speech is constantly being challenged, this was just recently an issue in a court case where a Gloucester county school district censored reviews of two R-rated movies from a school newspaper, superior court Judge, Robert E. Francis ruled that the student's rights were violated under the state Constitution.(freedom in the ... to control inappropriate content, it should be used to prevent children from gaining access to materials such as pornography on the Internet not the sex-ed book in the scho...

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... other items under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act" (Talanian). This lets the FBI examine records from libraries and bookstores to see what a suspected terrorist has read or looked up on a library's computer. Not only does this endanger the public's exercising their rights to read a book or write an e-mail, but it also prevents ... library staff or booksellers to inform their patrons if the FBI has asked for their reading list (Talanian). The freedom to read any book of interest or search for information on ... , are posting signs telling patrons that FBI agents have the abili...

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... permitted in consideration of this bill. The new law hits on every space that Americans once imagined was personal or private. United States authorities can browse medical, financial, educational and library records without showing evidence of a crime ever being committed. The Patriot Act also overrides the existing state and federal privacy laws, so long as the FBI claims the information is ... terrorism powers were actually being asked for as a way of increasing the government's authority in other areas," Edgar said. Before the patriot act was passed into law, "authorities could exami...

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... California's Berkley campus were felt to be over-represented due to their outstanding academic performance and were actually placed at a disadvantage under certain affirmative action programs (Bresler). In Los Angeles County, affirmative action goals were raised for Hispanics, who, as a result of immigration, have become almost 40% of the ... county, and lowered for blacks who represent 12% of the population and have 30% of the county jobs (Bresler). Due to this inequality of representation, new tensions have risen between the two groups. Previous to the passing of the California initia...

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... to spiral. Makers of spring and bra supports find uses for the "memory alloy". In addition, auto manufacturing R & D scientists are exploring the use of nitrogen ions. Nitrogen ions, used to beam down on a car crankshaft, harden the metal without the potential distortion of high-heat treatments. Such advances project new chapters for the 5,500 -year history of metals. RESEARCH AND FUTURE ... ...

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... are found on the shelves of school libraries and that are taught in the classrooms. These unjustified challenges have resulted in school boards actually pulling selected books and materials from library shelves and taking them out of the educational curriculum. The decision to censor the material that students have access to has caused an upset in parents, as well as other ... Amendment implies that citizens have a right to consume any work of literature that is produced. Without this underlying concept, the freedom to produce a work of ideas is worthless. The American Library Associati...

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... required for a warrant to be issued. However, now under the USA Patriot "probable cause" has lost much of the power it used to carry. Under the fourth amendment citizens and library patrons were protected, but by using the Patriot Act federal officials can now seize records by simply stating they are pertinent to an ongoing investigation into terrorism or espionage. FISA ... from the FBI. This proves that the FBI is in fact exercising its newfound powers; however, it is impossible to tell if they are in violation of the fourth amendment. (Library Records Post-Patriot Act (Federal Law)) ...

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... act expanded the governments ability to conduct surveillance, allows the CIA and FBI to share information about suspected terrorists, and gives the government the ability to monitor computer use and library transactions. When President Bush signed the law, in October of 2001, the overwhelming response from America was in favor of the law, but for various reasons the approval rating for ... " rights. Critics have a problem with the provision in the law in which it gives intelligence and law enforcement agencies more power to investigate. They now have the power to access library and books...

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... technologies that can dramatically decrease rainwater pollution." Hopefully this problem can be resolved quickly before anymore damage is done. "In Maryland and Virginia, a handful of municipalities, including Montgomery County, Takoma Park, Prince William County and jurisdictions in the Hampton Roads area, have established utility taxes or fees for maintaining old storm drainage systems. "This may drive away resident and/or businesses from ... ...

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... upon and put into action. SureStart', is a Social Planning initiative, which came into force as a government reaction to the levels of deprivation in Cornwall. Of the six districts in the County Penwith came the highest, of the 60,000 population, 26,000 are aged 4 and under, 13% of households are lone parent households and 19% of the 201 lone parents are ... aged 0-4 years old. With regard to education, of the children attending the infant and primary schools in the area 33.4% are entitled to free school meals, the average in the county being 15.4%. 54% of the pupils between the two sch...

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The Government Can Monitor Davis Undergrad. Library? The USA Patriot Act was hastily passed in the wake of the horrific attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. This act poses a very serious danger to American constitutional rights, but more ... ...

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... 62% of the federal budget while discretionary spending is shrinking year by year (Figure 1A). Mandatory spending is squeezing out other important investments needed for the future prosperity of our county. Investments like infrastructure, education, science, and research are all losing out to public entitlement programs. Tax dollars are not being appropriately allocated to all the necessary investments that a nation needs ... ...

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... protects individual freedoms and associational life" Thus, Mexico's state of law is the main obstacle prohibiting it from completely forming into a consolidated democracy. Linz and Stepan also assert that a county's state of law is crucial for the consolidation of democracy and that freely elected governments can, but do not necessarily, create such a law. Ergo, Mexico, a freely elected government, can lack ... ...

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... France, if they are willing to risk their life walking through a 31 mile long tunnel, it is pretty clear that they would do almost anything to get out of the county. It is only a matter of time until they find new and perhaps more dangerous methods in order to do so. Another article1 claims "French police have been criticised for ... ...

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... that local businesses invest in the country will be a sign for the foreign businesses to start investing in this country. But let's see the strategy for reducing unemployment of a particular county. On 11 November 2003, the government adopted an employment strategy for the period 2004-10 - the first time such a strategy has been developed in Bulgaria. The strategy was drawn up ... ...

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... this, that has historically made the United States such a powerful example of democracy. Many nations elect presidents and national parliaments. But we elect school boards and judges, city councils and county sheriffs. This means that, in all likelihood, you know the people you are voting for, as neighbors and as friends, or quite possibly, you are running yourself. What's wrong with ... ...

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... reaping an economic benefit from a variety of brothel-related revenue sources, including licensing fees, property tax, work card fees and liquor licenses (Gormly). Sources profit more than $10 million in county revenues annually. Nevada state law prohibits prostitution in counties with populations in excess of 400,000, that only excludes Clark and Washoe counties, leaving the decision up to the remaining ... ...

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... , will be less apt to pervade the whole body of the Union than a particular member of it, in the same proportion as such a malady is more likely to taint a particular county or district than an entire State."(Madison 84) Madison's argument that, the bigger the government is results in less entailment of factions is somewhat similar to that of James Bryce ... ...

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... distributors who buy and resell to other firms. Institutional/Commercial including health care, restaurants, educational institutions, hotels/resorts and other service providers. Government Agencies includes all levels from local municipalities, county, state and national organizations. It should be no surprise that the Federal Government of the USA is the single largest purchaser of goods/services in the World. Each of these ... ...

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... enormous endeavor to create a nationwide chain of schools for-profit. The issue of privatizing education gained even more attention and momentum when Education Alternatives, Inc. (EAI) secured a contract with Dade County, Florida to run one of their public elementary schools and later with the city of Baltimore, Maryland. To date, various contractors have joined the competition to seek out contracts with ... ...

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... ." He continued in his letter, lamenting Virginia's established church, in contrast to Bradford's enjoyment of relative Pennsylvania's religious freedom. In May of 1776, Madison was elected as a delegate from Orange County, to the Revolutionary Convention of Virginia. He was assigned within a matter of days to a committee charged with the responsibility of writing a "declaration of rights." Madison immediately proposed disestablishment with the ... ...

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... Garett Hardin's "The Tragedy of the Commons" in December of 1968. These papers were most influential with regard to environmental issues. However, it was an essay in Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac, "The Land Ethic," in which Leopold explicitly claimed that the roots of the ecological crisis were philosophical (Davis 73). Environmental problems come in many forms and plague members of ... ...

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... have involvement in decision making and should have the freedom to vote. But the dictatorship believes people should have no elections, and no say in any issue happening in the county. Mostly the democratic system values equality, freedom, and the public and the dictatorship values order and authority. ...

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... on a first come, first served basis. The Child Protective Services Act of 1973 encourages more complete reporting of child abuse and maltreatment. This law established a child protective service in each county of each state. They are required to investigate child abuse and maltreatment reports, to protect children from further abuse or maltreatment, and to provide rehabilitative services to children, parents, and ... ...

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