Congress: Hillary’s Benghazi Investigation Let Top Officials Escape Blame
by Josh Rogin Sep 15, 2013 6:00 PM EDT

A new report reveals that the State Department’s Benghazi investigation failed to hold senior officials accountable for the deaths of four Americans. Josh Rogin reports.

The State Department’s investigation into the Sept. 12, 2012 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi was not independent and failed to hold senior State Department officials accountable for the failures that led to the death of four Americans, according to a new investigative report compiled by the House Oversight Committee.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/09/15/congress-hillary-s-benghazi-investigation-let-top-officials-escape-blame.html

Janet Yellen at a crucial point in Fed’s future

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By JIM PUZZANGHERA AND DON LEE | Tribune Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON — Two momentous decisions involving the Federal Reserve are coming to a head, with significant implications for the U.S. and global economies.

Janet L. Yellen, a former University of California, Berkeley economist, stands in the middle of both of them.

As vice chair of the central bank, Yellen will take a leading role this week, when policymakers decide whether to start rolling back the Fed’s massive monetary stimulus after several years of providing extraordinary support for the weak economy.

The prospect of an imminent policy shift by the Fed has already shaken financial markets from Brazil to India, marking the end of an era of super-low interest rates.

Soon after, President Barack Obama is expected to nominate his selection to succeed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke, whose term expires at the end of January.

Yellen is one of two leading candidates for that increasingly powerful position, and her views on the economy and financial regulations have become the subject of intense interest among economists, investors and policymakers around the world.

“The interest is more outsized than normal because we’re still in very unusual times,” said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, referring to high unemployment as well as the unprecedented intervention by the Fed.

https://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/09/14/202170/janet-yellen-at-a-crucial-point.html#.Ujc2Nn8vzFJ

The Auditor: Naming names in the Ferriero indictment
By The Auditor/The Star-Ledger
on September 15, 2013 at 7:21 AM, updated September 15, 2013 at 9:38 AM

It’s time for one of The Auditor’s favorite games: Name the public officials referred to anonymously in an indictment.

The 72-page federal corruption indictment of Joe Ferriero, the former Bergen County Democratic chairman, handed up Wednesday included many such opportunities, but The Auditor’s interest was piqued by only a few unidentified officials.

According to the indictment, Ferriero — accused of taking payments from the developer of the still-dormant Meadowlands complex formerly known as “Xanadu” to influence public officials — got a state senator to withdraw a bill that would have hurt the development.

Ding! Ding! Ding! Records show that was state Sen. Joseph Coniglio (D-Bergen), who served 16 months in federal prison for an unrelated corruption conviction.

https://blog.nj.com/njv_auditor/2013/09/the_auditor_naming_names_in_th.html

Bags stuffed with ads irk Ridgewood officials, who explore ban
Monday, September 16, 2013
BY  CHRIS HARRIS
STAFF WRITER
The Record

RIDGEWOOD — The Village Council wants to eliminate those plastic bags stuffed with advertisements that are tossed onto residents’ driveways.

Officials are considering such a ban to prevent the companies behind such advertorial publications from distributing them in town.

Mayor Paul Aronsohn said the council received an email last month from a resident perturbed by the ad-heavy papers.

“Why do we have to tolerate this?” Aronsohn asked the council recently, arguing the bagged ads were not protected forms of free speech.

Waving a plastic bag filled with ads, Deputy Mayor Al Pucciarelli said the freebie publications constitute little more than litter.

“The cars go up the street and stop at every home, and you hear them at 6:30 in the morning,” Pucciarelli explained. “They throw this package onto our driveways, and to me, that’s litter.”

The bags of ads, Pucciarelli contended, place a burden on the village’s recycling efforts.

– See more at: https://www.northjersey.com/news/223864251_Bags_stuffed_with_ads_irk_Ridgewood_officials__who_explore_ban.html#sthash.MdcmEmXE.dpuf

Insurers limiting doctors, hospitals in health insurance market

Insurers in California’s new health insurance exchange are holding down premiums by limiting choices, raising concerns that patients will struggle to get care.

By Chad Terhune

September 14, 2013, 6:34 p.m.

The doctor can’t see you now.

Consumers may hear that a lot more often after getting health insurance under President Obama’s Affordable Care Act.

To hold down premiums, major insurers in California have sharply limited the number of doctors and hospitals available to patients in the state’s new health insurance market opening Oct. 1.

New data reveal the extent of those cuts in California, a crucial test bed for the federal healthcare law.

https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-insure-doctor-networks-20130915,0,2814725.story

Spanish scientists create self-healing ‘Terminator’ plastic
UPI 9/14/2013 12:05:30 AM
LONDON, Sept. 13 (UPI) —

Spanish scientists are reporting the world’s first self-healing polymer that spontaneously and independently repairs itself without any intervention.

The new material, dubbed a “Terminator” polymer in tribute to the shape-shifting, molten T-100 terminator robot from the “Terminator 2” film could be used to improve the security and lifetime of plastic parts in everyday products such as electrical components, cars and even houses, the researchers wrote in the Materials Horizons journal of Britain’s Royal Society of Chemistry.

It is the first self-healing polymer that can spontaneously achieve quantitative healing in the absence of a catalyst, they said, and after being cut in two and the pieces pressed together, a sample displayed an impressive 97 per cent healing efficiency in just two hours, being unbreakable when stretched manually.

https://www.breitbart.com/system/wire/upiUPI-20130913-192726-9432

New Arrivals at the  Tobacco Shop of Ridgewood

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Cory Booker faulted for not fixing a house he owned in Newark
Sunday September 15, 2013, 12:31 AM
BY  MICHAEL LINHORST
STATE HO– USE BUREAU
The Record

On a block of Court Street in Newark between the Gigi Foushee Towers public-housing project and the abandoned, decaying Krueger-Scott Mansion is a boarded row house with a “NO LOITERING” sign above the door.

Until a few months ago, the building was owned by Newark’s mayor, Cory Booker — now in the home¬stretch of a run for the U.S. Senate — who paid $175,000 for it in 2009.

Less than three weeks after Frank Lautenberg said he would retire from the U.S. Senate — formally opening up the race for his seat — Booker sold the property, one of two he purchased while mayor, for $1. The gift to Newark Now, the non-profit Booker founded in 2003, was “an opportunity to give back to Newark,” his campaign said on Friday.

To neighbors who’ve complained about the overgrown back yard and the squatters who live inside, the property stands as a marked contrast to Booker’s public image as an urban crusader, a politician building a national reputation by confronting inner-city blight.

“He bought it and promised to be a good neighbor, but that hasn’t occurred,” said Robert El, who owns the row house attached to Booker’s. “Shortly after he bought it, the squatters started moving in.”

– See more at: https://www.northjersey.com/news/Cory_Booker_faulted_for_not_fixing_a_house_he_owned_in_Newark.html#sthash.6Y1goYlL.dpuf

Poll: New low for government trust
By JAMES ARKIN | 9/13/13 1:28 PM EDT Updated: 9/13/13 2:08 PM EDT

Less than half of Americans trust the government to handle problems, a all-time low, according to a new poll.

Just 49 percent of Americans said they had a great deal or fair amount of confidence in the federal government to handle international problems, according to a Gallup poll released Friday. The previous low was 51 percent in 2007.

The public’s trust is even lower when it comes to domestic issues. Just 42 percent of Americans answered with a great deal or fair amount of confidence in the government to handle issues at home, one point below the previous low from 2011.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2013/09/government-trust-poll-96773.html#ixzz2ewzyHJJo

Jazz Feast Today in Ridgewood to feature food, music
Friday September 13, 2013, 2:21 PM
BY  JODI WEINBERGER
CORRESPONDENT
The Ridgewood News

The Ridgewood Guild is jazzed up for its next event.

Following a soulful plea by self-described jazz enthusiast Kathy Oliger, the Guild has planned a Jazz and Blues Feast for the public, running from 1:30 to 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 15 at Van Neste Square Park, rain or shine.

“It’s so perfect for Ridgewood,” Oliger said. “I want to put Ridgewood on the jazz map and we’re going to do it.”

– See more at: https://www.northjersey.com/recreation/223653491_Jazz_Feast_in_Ridgewood_to_feature_food__music.html#sthash.NpqeZRZQ.dpuf

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