The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays, for January 23, 2004 - 6:00pm

• President Bush signs an omnibus spending bill into law, legislation attacked by critics as a give-away to special interests and full of pork - it also contains controversial measures increasing media ownership concentration, ending overtime protections, and gutting a gun control law
• More charges of election irregularities in San Francisco - the same non-profit accused of coercing workers to vote and campaign for Mayor Gavin Newsom is said to have done the same for his predecessor Willie Brown
• Computer security experts warn that a new internet absentee voting system is vulnerable to hackers and terrorists and should be scrapped
• The Halliburton scandal grows - the company fires 2 employees for elledgedly taking millions of dollars in kickbacks from a Kuwaiti subcontractor supplying oil to U.S. troops in Iraq
• The interior department with the go-ahead to open nearly 9 million acres of Alaska's North Slope to oil and gas development
• State water regulators extend controversial waivers that let farms pollute waterways, but their decision will also require growers to monitor water quality

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