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October 1, 2005 - The NY Times has a story for tomorrow (co-written by Eric Lipton, who with Ron Nixon brought you the story last Monday about where Katrina contracts are going), about the 91,000 tons of ice FEMA bought to cool food and help hurricane victims -- at a cost to

September 30, 2005 - Our friends at the Center for Responsible Lending have put out an alert about a growing threat to military families: payday lenders who gouge them with exhorbitant rates and fees.

September 30, 2005 - So reports the Associated Press:

September 30, 2005 - Yesterday the House voted to strip down the Endangered Species Act, one of the landmark achievements of the 1970s environmental movement:

September 30, 2005 - Remember Newt Gingrich? It's been exactly 10 years since the then-Georgia rep. was the poster child for the conservative movement, voted Time's "Man of the Year" for his role in leading the much-heralded Republican Revolution of the mid-1990s.

September 29, 2005 - Posted by R. Neal Civil rights lawyer Baker Motley dies:

September 29, 2005 - Over the past few weeks we've seen plenty of evidence that the federal government has in fact not done much post-9/11 in the way of improving Homeland Security other than establish a huge, apparently ineffective bureaucracy run by unqualified, incompetent cronies of the current administration and their corporate pals to whom said cronies hand out billions in no-bid contracts.