The Apple App Store rejected a game called "Smuggle Truck: Operation Immigration," made by Owlchemy Labs of Boston. As the name suggests, the game is immigrant-themed and allows users to transport a truck full of immigrants across what appears to be the U.S.-Mexican border. Game developer Alex Schwartz said the rejection was "content-related."
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Lawmakers from New Hampshire and Massachusetts are working to reverse cuts to the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) proposed by President Obama in the 2012 budget. LIHEAP faces a $2.5 billion cut from a budget that was $5.1 billion in 2009. In 2009, LIHEAP actually got $8.1 billion. Senators John Kerry, who wrote to President Obama in opposition to the cuts, and Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H. and Rep. Edward Markey hope to restore funding. Republican Senators Scott Brown and Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine might support it, too. [National Journal]
Congressman Ed Markey is making news on a local and national level.
Rep. Ed Markey has fallen in love with the idea of hating BP for laying waste to the Gulf of Mexico with that oil spill in April. Can you blame him? He recently exposed BP, and other top oil companies, for not taking safety seriously.
- With the Patrick administration considering expanding gambling in Massachusetts, the Governor is proposing budget cuts to helping gambling addicts. [Boston Herald]
- Governor Deval Patrick's administration plans to cut funding for special treatment units for prisoners with mental illness. The cut could restart a suit by the Disability Law Center against the Department of Correction that was headed for an out of court settlement. [Boston Globe]
This week, the Civil Society Institute released survey results that showed 82 percent of people in Massachusetts approved of Cape Wind, which would install wind turbines in Nantucket Sound. The news came out just as Cape Wind supporters were pushing for US Rep Ed "Biz" Markey to publicly back the project. {They are not lobbying Senator Ted Kennedy, who, in a fit of NIMBYism, has opposed the project from the get-go because Nantucket Sound is his backyard.)
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