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• Test-Score Based Merit Raises Are Dumb Idea

  Published: August 19, 2007, 1:05 am

  Tags: Teachers, Merit Raises, Schools

  look good (and receive merit raises) under those conditions. While a good teacher can be made to look bad in a school located in a poor and gang-infested area that doesn't even receive the proper books and supplies. The result is that teachers are going to be rewarded or punished for circumstances that are beyond their control.Distributing merit

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• How Reporters Get Raises: New York Observer media reporter and chronic ...

  Published: October 4, 2007, 11:10 am

  Tags: D C, How Reporters Get Raises, New York Observer, Politico, Revolving Door

  New York Observer media reporter and chronic party-goer Michael Calderone has ankled the pink paper for Politico. [Fishbowldc]

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• Vancouver Airport Taser death raises questions

  Published: October 15, 2007, 7:17 am

  Tags: Georgia, Vancouver, Airport, Asked, Being, Butt, Co Authored, Commissioner, Complaint, Died, Electricity, Expert, John, Killed, Life, Methods, Police, Provincial, Questions, Raises, Rcmp, Report, Restrained, Shock, Shortly, Sunday, Taser, Volts, Weapon

  Tasers are being used more often and if you have a weak heart it can kill you. read more

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• Retiree Pension Raises Vary by System

  Published: October 18, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Retiree, Pension, Raises, Vary, System, Margaret L Baptiste, Alexandria, Alexis M Herman, Georgetown, Kevin E Mahoney, Michael L Dominguez, Stephen Barr, The Pentagon, Accenture S Institute For Public Service Value, Georgetown University, Medicare, National Active Ret

  It's COLA season, and if you're a federal retiree, how much your pension increases depends on which retirement system you're in.

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• Retiree Pension Raises Vary by System

  Published: October 18, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Retiree, Pension, Raises, Vary, System, Margaret L Baptiste, Alexandria, Alexis M Herman, Georgetown, Kevin E Mahoney, Michael L Dominguez, Stephen Barr, The Pentagon, Accenture S Institute For Public Service Value, Georgetown University, Medicare, National Active Ret

  It's COLA season, and if you're a federal retiree, how much your pension increases depends on which retirement system you're in.

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• Obey Raises the Specter of War Tax

  Published: October 19, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Obey, Raises, The, Specter, War, Tax, Dave Obey, George W Bush, Iraq, Nancy Pelosi, The White House, Wisconsin, Rahm Emanuel, Rosa Delauro, U S House Committee On Appropriations, U S Presidential Cabinet

  House Appropriations Committee Chairman David R. Obey (D-Wis.) hates this "misbegotten, stupid, ill-advised" Iraq war. He won't even consider President Bush's latest war funding request until next year. And he wants to tax Americans to pay for it.

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• Obey Raises the Specter of War Tax

  Published: October 19, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Obey, Raises, The, Specter, War, Tax, Dave Obey, George W Bush, Iraq, Nancy Pelosi, The White House, Wisconsin, Rahm Emanuel, Rosa Delauro, U S House Committee On Appropriations, U S Presidential Cabinet

  House Appropriations Committee Chairman David R. Obey (D-Wis.) hates this "misbegotten, stupid, ill-advised" Iraq war. He won't even consider President Bush's latest war funding request until next year. And he wants to tax Americans to pay for it.

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• Torture Stance Raises Doubts on Mukasey

  Published: October 27, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Torture, Stance, Raises, Doubts, Mukasey, Michael Mukasey, Dick Durbin, Harry Reid, Joseph Biden, The White House, Tony Fratto, Central Intelligence Agency, U S Senate Committee On The Judiciary, United States, Alberto Gonzales, Arlen Specter, Bradford Berenson, Brian

  A growing number of Senate Democrats who had previously praised attorney general nominee Michael B. Mukasey are now focusing on his refusal to answer a question about torture as a pivotal issue for his confirmation.

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• Torture Stance Raises Doubts on Mukasey

  Published: October 27, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Torture, Stance, Raises, Doubts, Mukasey, Michael Mukasey, Dick Durbin, Harry Reid, Joseph Biden, The White House, Tony Fratto, Central Intelligence Agency, U S Senate Committee On The Judiciary, United States, Alberto Gonzales, Arlen Specter, Bradford Berenson, Brian

  A growing number of Senate Democrats who had previously praised attorney general nominee Michael B. Mukasey are now focusing on his refusal to answer a question about torture as a pivotal issue for his confirmation.

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• U.S. Military Raises Profile Against Piracy Off Somalia

  Published: November 1, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: U S, Military, Raises, Profile, Against, Piracy, Off, Somalia, U S Armed Forces, United States, Horn Of Africa, Lydia Robertson, Uss Porter, Bahrain, U S Fifth Fleet

  NAIROBI, Oct. 31 -- The U.S. military has stepped up activities in the pirate-infested waters off Somalia, going to the aid of hijacked cargo ships twice this week. American medics treated wounded North Korean sailors on one vessel, and the Navy was tracking another after destroying two pirate sk...

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• Ron Paul raises more than $4.2 million

  Published: November 6, 2007, 12:08 am

  Tags: Iraq, Texas, Washington, Election, Fawkes, Internet, Netroots, Politics, Presidential Candidate, Raises, Republican, Ron Paul, Web Based, Youtube

  There has been a lot of chatter about how the blogosphere is gaming the popularity of Ron Paul on sites like Technorati but behold the power of netroots read more

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• Brooklyn Senator: ‘Show Me the Money’

  Published: December 13, 2007, 6:30 pm

  Tags: Top Story, Government Politics, Albany, Brooklyn, Eric Adams, Legislative Raises

  State Senator Eric Adams, a freshman Democrat from Brooklyn, may one day regret this floor speech in favor of a legislative pay raise.

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• Contract Provides Raises at NCUA

  Published: December 14, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Contract, Provides, Raises, Ncua, Daniel Akaka, The Pentagon, National Credit Union Administration, American Federation Of Government Employees, Ibm Corporation, Alan Chvotkin, Colleen M Kelley, Don Hale, J Leonard Skiles, James Cason, Maurice Mctigue, Stephen Barr

  The National Credit Union Administration and the National Treasury Employees Union have reached agreement on a contract that will provide raises to field examiners and office employees, the union announced.

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• Pay Raises, Pensions, Contracting Rules and the Kitchen Sink

  Published: December 18, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Pay, Raises, Pensions, Contracting, Rules, And, The, Kitchen, Sink

  Federal employees have a sizeable stake in this week's debate over the year-end, catch-all spending bill before the Congress -- starting with their pay.

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• Pay Raises, Pensions, Contracting Rules and the Kitchen Sink

  Published: December 18, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Pay, Raises, Pensions, Contracting, Rules, And, The, Kitchen, Sink

  Federal employees have a sizeable stake in this week's debate over the year-end, catch-all spending bill before the Congress -- starting with their pay.

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