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What Is Wind

Offshore Wind

Solar Panels For Home

Green firm NextEra pressured feds for approval despite environmental worries

Green firm NextEra pressured feds for approval despite environmental worries | Read about it here: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/green-firm-nextera-pressured-feds-for-approval-despite-environmental-worries/article/2556255

Feds gave N.C. nonprofit $1.8 billion despite years of critical IG reports | Read all about it here: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/article/2556050 Frugal Living Ideas, Finance Education, Manage Your Money, Poor Countries, Budgeting Tools, Quick Money, Diy Cleaning Solution, Money Saving Meals, Managing Your Money

Diy Cleaning Solution

Money Saving Meals

Managing Your Money

Feds gave N.C. nonprofit $1.8 billion despite years of critical IG reports

Feds gave N.C. nonprofit $1.8 billion despite years of critical IG reports | Read all about it here: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/article/2556050

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Law sparked by K Street Project scandal may ensnare Warner

Law sparked by K Street Project scandal may ensnare Warner | Read the full story here: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/article/2555303

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FMCS OKs higher locality pay for employees working in distant low-tax states

Some federal bureaucrats pump up their salaries and cut their taxes by listing their “duty stations” as expensive cities while actually working remotely from low-levy rural states. | Read this magazine story here: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/fmcs-oks-higher-locality-pay-for-employees-working-in-low-tax-states/article/2554971

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FMCS honcho lives in D.C. but claims Iowa tax residency

A federal agency’s second highest-ranking official draws a $174,000 salary for his job on K Street in Washington, yet he insists he is an Iowa resident for state tax purposes. | Read the full story here: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/fmcs-honcho-lives-in-washington-br-but-claims-iowa-tax-residency/article/2554803

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Old Cell Phones

Refurbished Phones

Recycling Information

Obamaphone use grew 100-fold in 3 years in Md. to twice the number eligible

645,000 Maryland residents had so-called Obamaphones in 2012 — one hundred times as many people as there were in 2009, and double the number in that state who are supposed to be eligible for the program based on their income. | Read more about it here: http://washingtonexaminer.com/article/2554042

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Wedding Budget Ideas

Homemade Invitations

Wedding Assistant

Easy Wedding Planning

Frequent frankers in Congress face tough re-election fights

Frequent frankers in Congress face tough re-election fights | Read about it here: http://washingtonexaminer.com/article/2552531

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The Agency

Phoenix

Veterans Affairs IG finds no direct links between patient deaths and scheduling scams at Phoenix hospital

Veterans Affairs IG finds no direct links between patient deaths and scheduling scams at Phoenix hospital | Read what the IG report says here: http://washingtonexaminer.com/article/2552480

The Worst

Missed leukemia diagnosis by Veterans Affairs leaves vet who put his trust in doctors living 'day to day'

Faces of Delay: Missed leukemia diagnosis by Veterans Affairs leaves vet who put his trust in doctors living 'day to day' | Read it here: http://washingtonexaminer.com/article/2552286

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Guatemala's human smuggling network is big business for 'coyotes'

Guatemala's human smuggling network is big business for 'coyotes' | Read about it here: http://washingtonexaminer.com/article/2552267