• 05 Nov 2009 13:00

  NY: Cuomo targets Intel for global 'campaign of illegal conduct' By Casey Seiler, Times Union (Albany) The Attorney General charges the world's largest chip-fab with engaging in broad-based bribery and coercion to maintain its market position in a new antitrust lawsuit. MD: Free phones, airtime offered to poor Marylanders By Gus G. Sentementes, The Sun (Baltimore) BALTIMORE, Md. -- One of the country's largest national prepaid cell phone carriers is making free phones and 64 minutes of monthly air time available to nearly 400,000 low-income Maryland residents under a new effort it brought to the state this week. DE: Bluewater's foes now on its side By Aaron Nathans, The News Journal (New Castle-Wilmington) It wasn't that long ago that Bluewater Wind's main opponents were Delmarva Power and NRG Energy. But if Bluewater's offshore wind farm gets built, it may have both to thank for keeping the project afloat. FL: Fla. GOP -- Steele a victim of bogus 'tweets' By Rick Neale, Florida Today Brevard Republican Party Chairman Jason Steele was targeted by a fictitious Twitter account set up by a fellow party official, the Republican Party of Florida announced. LA: LSU to aid 'genome zoo' By Jordan Blum, The Advocate (Baton Rouge) LSU is expected to provide much of the DNA and tissue specimens for a new international project to assemble a "genome zoo" of 10,000 vertebrate species. MA: Report -- State must step up fight against overdoses By The Associated Press, Boston Herald Tamper-proof prescription pads, jail diversion programs and school-based drug counselors are some of the steps Massachusetts should adopt to stem OxyContin and heroin overdoses, according to a new report. ME: Company bids for biomass contract By Nick Sambides Jr., Bangor Daily News MILLINOCKET, Maine — Brookfield Renewable Power has bid to supply electricity to the state's utilities from a biomass boiler it hopes to install at its local paper mill, a next step among several needed to restart the mill, a company spokeswoman said Wednesday. MN: Saving the ash tree, seed by seed By Bill McAuliffe, Minneapolis Star Tribune MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. -- Most of Minnesota's ash trees seem doomed, but the rush is on to preserve their seeds in hopes of saving the species. NE: Nebraskans eager to trim budget By Paul Hammel, Omaha World-Herald Any Nebraskans worth their corn husks will tell you who needs to start at quarterback for the Husker football team. And they're full of ideas on how to wrest the state out of its sticky, $334 million budget problem, judging from e-mails sent to reporters and to a state senator's Web site.   Read More NH: Anthem warns of security breach By The Associated Press, Concord Monitor Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield is warning 10,000 New Hampshire physicians, dentists and other providers that their Social Security numbers may have been stolen.   Read More NY: Aqueduct-bid tribe in 'illegal casino' flap By Maggie Haberman, New York Post NEW YORK -- The Florida Seminole tribe, which is part of a team making a play to run the potentially lucrative video lottery casino at Aqueduct, is enmeshed in a controversy in its own state, with some pols claiming they're illegally allowing gambling.   Read More NY: Cuomo files Intel antitrust suit By Ashlee Vance, The New York Times In 2005, Michael S. Dell's namesake company was getting pounded. His competitors were selling personal computers and servers built on cheap, popular and powerful chips from Advanced Micro Devices, while Mr. Dell had stuck loyally with slower chips from Intel.   Read More NY: Some N.Y. voters uncomfortable with new system By Cara Matthews, Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester) Change isn't always easy, and that came through this week in the comments of voters who marked paper ballots and scanned them into machines, rather than the old-fashioned way of pulling mechanical levers, election officials said.   Read More OK: Oklahoma defends its handling of $2.8B in stimulus funds By Michael McNutt, The Oklahoman (Oklahoma City) Oklahoma correctly accepted and spent its federal stimulus funds, an assistant attorney general said Wednesday in arguing against a lawsuit that claimed Oklahoma officials acted wrongly.   Read More SC: Details to be kept quiet By Katy Stech, The Post and Courier (Charleston) Politicians and other state officials privately crafted a $450 million incentive deal to land Boeing Co. on the promise of thousands of jobs and a multibillion-dollar economic impact, but the details of that deal could be kept from public view for the next year.   Read More TN: TN legislators may scrap $70M biofuels project By Chas Sisk, The Tennessean (Nashville) State lawmakers say they might pull the plug on a University of Tennessee effort to produce ethanol from switchgrass, after school officials said it has changed business partners, scaled down production and now plans to start out using corncobs, not switchgrass.   Read More TX: Senator -- No fed money for US-China wind project By H. Joseph Herbert, The Associated Press, The Houston Chronicle WASHINGTON — A Democratic senator is calling on the Obama administration to reject an expected request for federal economic stimulus money as part of a $1.5 billion West Texas wind energy project because he says it will generate Chinese, not American, jobs.   Read More

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