Barely three months after I advised Americans to Think Twice Before Opening Door to Census Worker, two Indiana women were allegedly attacked by 39-year-old Daniel Miller, a U.S. Census worker who had been on the job for two weeks and now faces rape and burglary charges, according to a news report (below) out of Indianapolis. [...]
Census Worker Charged With Rape, Burglary (Update)
May 13th, 2010 · 1 Comment
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Census Touts Thrift Days Before Audit Finds Waste
February 16th, 2010 · 1 Comment
Today, yet another reason surfaces to make people Think Twice Before Opening Door to Census Worker. Only nine days ago, officials at the Census Bureau issued a news release sporting the headline, 2010 Census Ad Campaign Positioned to Save Taxpayers Millions Helping Boost Mail Back Participation Rates. Today, the content of an Associated Press article [...]
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Think Twice Before Opening Door to Census Worker (Update)
February 12th, 2010 · 6 Comments
Despite reports last fall that the Census Bureau had severed ties with community-organizing group known as ACORN, Americans might want to think twice before opening their doors to canvassers for the 2010 Census after reading what I discovered this morning. According to a report issued by the Government Accountability Office Oct. 7, approximately 785 employees [...]
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Census Ads Everywhere, Including Back of the Bus (Update)
February 10th, 2010 · 5 Comments
Only three days after being “treated” to a $2.5 million Super Bowl commercial touting the 2010 Census as a “Snapshot of America,” I spotted another advertisement for the 2010 Census and took a photo of it (below). Plastered to the back of a bus I encountered on the way back from St. Louis Lambert International [...]
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How Many ACORN Officials Will Show Up to Help Launch Census in Schools Program in St. Louis?
November 24th, 2009 · No Comments
Question of the Day: How many ACORN officials will show up to help Rep. Lacy Clay (D-Mo.) launch the 2010 Census in Schools Program Dec. 1 at Gateway Math & Science Elementary School in St. Louis? According to a media advisory issued today by the Census Bureau, Representative Clay will help Census Bureau officials launch [...]
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Senator Lists Wasteful Provisions of Stimulus Bill
February 4th, 2009 · No Comments
In a post published yesterday on his web site, Sen. Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-Okla.) lists nearly three-dozen “wasteful and non-stimulus spending provisions” in the deeply-flawed Senate stimulus bill. Those provisions appear below: • $2 billion earmark to re-start FutureGen, a near-zero emissions coal power plant in Illinois that the Dept. of Energy defunded last year [...]
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Celebrate Cinco De Mustard, Not De Mayo!
May 5th, 2008 · 2 Comments
My one-man campaign to convince Americans to celebrate CINCO DE MUSTARD — instead of Cinco De Mayo — continues today despite a government public relations counter-efforts during the past week that surfaced in the form of news releases like this one and this one issued by the U.S. Census Bureau. Why the Census Bureau feels [...]
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