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Jun 25, 2008 -
The US Conference of Mayors, meeting in Miami, banned bottled water this week. The cities will no longer use municipal funds to purchase water bottles.
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, who proposed the resolution along with 17 other big-city mayors, said: "Cities are sending the wrong message about the quality of public water when we spend taxpayer dollars on water in disposable containers from a private corporation."
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Feb 20, 2009 -
President Obama met with America's mayors today, promising to "call them out" if they spend stimulus money in a wasteful way.
The president told the Conference of US Mayors that he needed unprecedented responsibility and accountability. He said: If a federal agency proposes a project that will waste that money, I will not hesitate to call them out on it, and put a stop to it.
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Apr 22, 2007 -
I know some of you secretly love reading my fun facts as much as I do writing them (and acting like a know it all at parties telling people them), so I thought I'd give you a double dosing this week. I believe more and more importance should be placed on Earth Day every year so it's totally worthy of its own set of fabulous fun facts. Did you know that in some elementary schools, after Halloween and Christmas, Earth Day is the third largest celebrated holiday?
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