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Councilman Draws Ire Of Satellite TV Companies With Proposed ...
(Philadelphia city councilman Darrell Clarke, in file photo. Photo by Steve Tawa)
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) ? A Philadelphia city council member is continuing his effort to reign in what he says are unsightly satellite tv dishes on row home roofs, much to the industry?s chagrin.
City Councilman Darrell Clarke has again amended his measure that regulates the placement of satellite dishes in Philadelphia. The dishes would have to be colored to match the rooftop, but Clarke says this applies only to new dishes and the coloring would be the installer?s, not the homeowner?s, responsibility.
?We?re not asking people to go out and paint the existing dishes,? Clarke says. ?We?re saying (to the companies) as you move ahead in your production models, simply have those dishes camouflaged.?
Dish Network is notifying customers by email and its website to oppose the bill.
Clarke says he?s moving ahead anyway, ?Having these satellite dishes on the facades of properties when they don?t have to be there is something we don?t think is acceptable. So we?ve been working with the industry, we?ve been trying to get a compromise. But we, at this point, we?ve been unable to do that, so we?re moving ahead with legislation.?
A final vote is expected on October 6th.
A statement from the Satellite Broadcasting and Communications Association, representing both Dish Networks and DirecTV, described Clarke?s bill as ?Orwellian,? ?bad public policy? and illegal under FCC regulations.
Reported by City Hall Bureau Chief Mike Dunn, KYW Newsradio 1060
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Gov. Shumlin: Irene could cost Vt. more than $1B (AP)
MONTPELIER, Vt. ? Vermont's governor says Tropical Storm Irene could cost the tiny state more than $1 billion.
Gov. Peter Shumlin said Tuesday that the state is still calculating the damage from the Aug. 28 storm. He pleaded with the federal government for help as he announced state financial assistance for towns struggling to make repairs.
The package includes $24 million in accelerated state payments to help cash-strapped towns, including $6.2 million in town highway funds released this week rather than next month.
Officials say local banks also are stepping in, providing short-term low collateral loans while the Vermont Municipal Bond Band will provide funding if banks need it.
Shumlin says a top priority will be to get as much of a federal match as possible for infrastructure repairs once the state knows the extent of the damage.
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3 indicted in sophisticated Wash. hacking scheme (AP)
SEATTLE ? Soon after his office was burglarized ? twice ? Jeff Eby walked in and found a payroll report sitting on his printer. He hadn't printed it, and as his company's chief financial officer, he's the only person who would have.
That's how he came to learn his organization had been hit by what prosecutors describe as a small team of sophisticated thieves and hackers that hit dozens of businesses over the past few years. In some cases, they chose their victims simply by driving around and picking up their wireless Internet signals; in others, they broke in the old-fashioned way, mainly for the purpose of installing malicious computer software on company networks, prosecutors said.
Joshuah Allen Witt, Brad Eugene Lowe and John Earl Griffin are charged in a 10-count federal indictment unsealed this week accusing them of aggravated identity theft and other charges. Lowe and Griffin have pleaded not guilty; Witt is in state custody and is expected to soon be transferred to federal custody.
At least 53 Puget Sound-area companies were hit, with losses well into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Investigators are still tallying, Seattle U.S. Attorney Jenny Durkan told a news conference Wednesday.
In some cases, prosecutors say that once the men hacked into the wireless hotspots or burglarized the businesses, they obtained financial data, hijacked payroll systems, stole the identities of employees and routed pay checks to accounts they'd set up in the employees' names.
Then, they gave themselves raises.
"Once the hackers are in the system, they have a smorgasbord" ? and can use the information to open bank accounts, compromise the personal credit information of employees, and access PayPal, Amazon and eBay accounts, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Kathryn Warma.
The defendants were so ingenious at masking their trail and destroying electronic evidence of their intrusions that sometimes employees of the victimized companies wound up being questioned as potential suspects, investigators said. And according to the indictment, they took over some companies' networks in such a way that they were able "to monitor the victim business's discovery and response to the network intrusion, to include eavesdropping on communications with law enforcement agents."
The men used the money on items including a Rolex watch and car engines, prosecutors said. They're also accused of buying a wealth of computer equipment ? including powerful antennas ? that could be used to further their hacking activities.
It wasn't immediately clear how police first linked the three to the hacking, but documents filed in federal and state court said the investigation began by August 2008, and the three were identified as suspects by late 2010, when all three were initially arrested. Two ? Lowe and Witt ? were charged with various burglaries in King County Superior Court. Griffin was arrested at a local wine bar when police said he tried to use stolen gift cards, but that case was never referred for prosecution, said Dan Donohoe, a spokesman for the county prosecutor's office.
Investigators said it helped that the businesses reported the intrusions promptly, and the U.S. Secret Service Electronic Crimes Task Force in the region was able to connect the dots among cases that seemed unrelated.
Witt, who has a criminal history involving escape, theft and other convictions, was also arrested for investigation of stolen property in 2007, but ignored orders to appear in court on that case. Nevertheless, when he was arrested again last December, the court gave him a 24-hour release in which to post bond. He didn't post bond or show up in court as ordered, and was taken back into custody in February.
After being released from custody in late 2010, Witt and Lowe continued burglarizing businesses, prosecutors said. They were re-arrested last Friday.
Lowe's attorney, Brent Hart, said it was too early to comment on the case.
An attorney for Griffin could not immediately be reached for comment.
No attorney has appeared on Witt's behalf in federal court.
The victimized companies included Eby's, a firm that helps universities capitalize on technologies they develop, and a downtown property management firm run by Mark Houtchens. Both said the costs of fixing the damage caused by the intrusions ? figuring out what happened and securing their computer networks anew ? have been severe.
"It's a pain in the neck, if not quite a bit lower," Houtchens said.
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Edmonton?s Taylor Hall will see his first action Tuesday night since spraining his ankle in a March fight with Columbus' Derek Dorsett.
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FACT CHECK: Are rich taxed less than secretaries? (AP)
WASHINGTON ? President Barack Obama makes it sound like there are millionaires all over America paying taxes at lower rates than their secretaries.
"Middle-class families shouldn't pay higher taxes than millionaires and billionaires," Obama said Monday. "That's pretty straightforward. It's hard to argue against that."
The data tells a different story. On average, the wealthiest people in America pay a lot more taxes than the middle class or the poor, according to private and government data. They pay at a higher rate, and as a group, they contribute a much larger share of the overall taxes collected by the federal government.
There may be individual millionaires who pay taxes at rates lower than middle-income workers. In 2009, 1,470 households filed tax returns with incomes above $1 million yet paid no federal income tax, according to the Internal Revenue Service. That, however, was less than 1 percent of the nearly 237,000 returns with incomes above $1 million.
In his White House address Monday, Obama called on Congress to increase taxes by $1.5 trillion as part of a 10-year deficit reduction package totaling more than $3 trillion. He proposed that Congress overhaul the tax code and impose what he called the "Buffett rule," named for billionaire investor Warren Buffett.
The rule says, "People making more than $1 million a year should not pay a smaller share of their income in taxes than middle-class families pay."
"Warren Buffett's secretary shouldn't pay a higher tax rate than Warren Buffett. There is no justification for it," Obama said. "It is wrong that in the United States of America, a teacher or a nurse or a construction worker who earns $50,000 should pay higher tax rates than somebody pulling in $50 million."
Buffett wrote in a recent piece for The New York Times that the tax rate he paid last year was lower than that paid by any of the other 20 people in his office.
This year, households making more than $1 million will pay an average of 29.1 percent of their income in federal taxes, including income taxes and payroll taxes, according to the Tax Policy Center, a Washington think tank.
Households making between $50,000 and $75,000 will pay 15 percent of their income in federal taxes.
Lower-income households will pay less. For example, households making between $40,000 and $50,000 will pay an average of 12.5 percent of their income in federal taxes. Households making between $20,000 and $30,000 will pay 5.7 percent.
The latest IRS data is a few years older ? and it's limited to federal income taxes ? but it shows much the same thing. In 2009, taxpayers who made $1 million or more paid on average 24.4 percent of their income in federal income taxes, according to the IRS.
Those making $100,000 to $125,000 paid on average 9.9 percent in federal income taxes. Those making $50,000 to $60,000 paid an average of 6.3 percent.
Obama's claim hinges on the fact that, for high-income families and individuals, investment income is often taxed at a lower rate than wages. The top tax rate for dividends and capital gains is 15 percent. The top marginal tax rate for wages is 35 percent, though that is reserved for taxable income above $379,150.
With tax rates that high, why do so many people pay at lower rates? Because the tax code is riddled with more than $1 trillion in deductions, exemptions and credits, and they benefit people at every income level, according to data from the nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation, Congress' official scorekeeper on revenue issues.
The Tax Policy Center estimates that 46 percent of households, mostly low- and medium-income households, will pay no federal income taxes this year. Most, however, will pay other taxes, including Social Security payroll taxes.
"People who are doing quite well and worry about low-income people not paying any taxes bemoan the fact that they get so many tax breaks that they are zeroed out," said Roberton Williams, a senior fellow at the Tax Policy Center. "People at the bottom of the distribution say, but all of those rich guys are getting bigger tax breaks than we're getting, which is also the case."
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was pressed at a White House briefing on the number of millionaires who pay taxes at a lower rate than middle-income families. He demurred, saying that people who make most of their money in wages pay taxes at a higher rate, while those who get most of their income from investments pay at lower rates.
"So it really depends on what is your profession, where's the source of your income, what's the specific circumstances you face, and the averages won't really capture that," Geithner said.
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Dodgers' Kershaw beats Giants 2-1 for 20th win
By BETH HARRIS
updated 9:46 a.m. ET Sept. 21, 2011
LOS ANGELES - Clayton Kershaw impressed just about everybody except himself in becoming the Los Angeles Dodgers' first 20-game winner in 21 years. Fittingly, his accomplishment came against a team he has dominated this season.
Kershaw improved to 5-0 against San Francisco with a 2-1 victory on Tuesday night that pushed the Giants closer to elimination from the NL West race.
Kershaw (20-5) allowed six hits and one run in 7 1-3 innings, walked two and struck out six to become the first Dodgers pitcher to go 5-0 against the Giants since Vic Lombardi in 1946. He did it on what would have been Lombardi's 89th birthday.
"Don't overthink it," Kershaw said of his strategy against the Dodgers' biggest rival. "You have a tendency sometimes when you face a team over and over to try to change things."
Four of those victories came against two-time NL Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum, with Kershaw allowing one earned run in those games. That came on an eighth-inning homer by Chris Stewart.
"It's frustrating, obviously," Lincecum said. "But when you go up against a guy like that who's having a year like this, you've got to be on your game. Every run counts, so you can't go out there and give him a two-run lead and kind of put the ball in his court to put his foot down because he tends to do that a lot. And it's not just against us."
Kershaw issued his only two walks after Stewart's one-out homer. Kenley Jansen relieved him, striking out pinch-hitter Pablo Sandoval swinging and Carlos Beltran on a called third strike to end the inning.
"I love situations like that, tight games, especially when we're up by one," Jansen said. "That's a blessing just being a part of him getting those 20 wins."
Javy Guerra pitched the ninth to earn his 19th save in 20 chances. Kershaw hugged Jansen when the game ended.
"It's a testament to our bullpen tonight," Kershaw said. "These guys picked me up time in and time out. It's a culmination of things. When you win 20 games it's a whole lot of people helping you out back there."
Kershaw kept his name in the mix to win the NL Cy Young Award. He's tied with Arizona's Ian Kennedy for the league lead in wins and leads the majors with a 2.27 ERA. Kershaw's 242 strikeouts lead the NL, too.
"If I were to receive that, it wouldn't go lightly," he said.
Lincecum doesn't have a vote, but if he did he said it would go to Kershaw "just because of the numbers that he has.
"He's leading in a lot of categories and putting up a 20-win season is huge, especially with the team they've got. He's done a magnificent job this year. I'm sure (the four wins against Lincecum) will weigh into the decisions of people, but we're not the only team he's had great games against," he said.
Lincecum (13-13) extended his career-high loss total, giving up two runs and eight hits in seven innings. He struck out five and walked three. The right-hander got two or fewer runs of support for the 20th time in his 32 starts.
The loss ended the Giants' eight-game winning streak and dropped them another game behind Atlanta and St. Louis in the NL wild card race. They trail the Braves by 4? and the Cardinals by two with eight games to play.
"It hurts a lot, just because of the roll we'd been on," Lincecum said. "This is going to set us back a little bit. We've just got to pray for a miracle."
Jerry Sands homered leading off the second inning to help the Dodgers win their fourth in a row and move a game above .500 for the first time since April 29 against San Diego. James Loney's RBI single with two outs in the first gave them a 1-0 lead.
Kershaw became the first Dodgers pitcher to win 20 games since Ramon Martinez went 20-6 in 1990. The left-hander extended his winning streak to a career-high seven games and improved to 12-1 in 16 home starts.
"The whole body of work has been tremendous," Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said. "The kid's been doing this every time out for the most part. The performances speak for themselves. You don't need to politic for him."
Kershaw departed to a standing ovation with one out in the eighth. He left the stadium carrying a bottle of 2000 vintage Dom Perignon champagne decorated to commemorate his milestone by clubhouse attendant Mitch Poole.
"If this boy doesn't win the Cy Young, something is definitely wrong," said Dodgers slugger Matt Kemp, who went 2-for-2 with two strikeouts, giving him a career-high 182 hits this season.
The Dodgers picked off baserunners three times, with Kershaw involved twice. He picked off Beltran to end the first and later got Justin Christian, giving Kershaw eight pickoffs which leads the NL.
NOTES: Kershaw is the 16th 20-game winner in Dodgers' history. ... The Dodgers improved to 23-20 in one-run games, including a 16-7 mark at home. ... Beltran snapped an 0 for 9 streak in his career against Kershaw with singles in his first two at-bats. ... At 23, Kershaw became the second-youngest 20-game winner in Dodgers' history behind Martinez, who was 22 in 1990. ... Kemp was chosen by his teammates as winner of the Roy Campanella Award, given to the Dodgers player who best exemplifies the spirit and leadership of the late Hall of Fame catcher. ... Lincecum fell to 0-3 with a 1.82 ERA in his five matchups with Kershaw this season.
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