Blue-winged Teal in Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge, Texas (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Green-winged Teal, a species formerly considered by BBRC, but now occurring too regularly to meet its rarity criteria (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The teal hunting season will open on September 16 and continue through September 30, 2014. Information on the teal hunting zone and other regulations are available online.

Licenses, stamps and permits may be purchased online via COMPASS, by phone at 1-855-855-3906, at aDNR Service Center or at any one of the more than 250 Sport License Agents located across the state. For more information, visit dnr.maryland.gov/service.

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Volume XVI No.36: September 5, 2014

Around Washington you can tell football season is upon us (hereyou can read what we think about the NFL’s non-profit status) because Congress is lining up to punt their work until after the election. Lawmakers have a lot to do over the next month, but little will and even less incentive to do it. We’ll get to dealing with their main constitutionally mandated duty – funding government – later, but we’re looking at immigration issues, the still stumbling economy, Russia/Ukraine, dealing with the insurgents in Iraq (the so called ISIS – Islamic State in Iraq and Syria), and companies taking advantage of the tax code with inversions.

Turning Point

Joseph Valachi testifies before the Senate on October 1, 1963, showing how he was initiated into the Mafia by having to burn a crumpled ball of paper in his hands while taking the mob oath. AP Photo. Joseph Valachi testifies before the Senateon October 1, 1963, showing how he wasinitiated into the Mafia by having to burn acrumpled ball of paper in his hands whiletaking the mob oath. AP Photo.

Capone was history. \”Lucky\” Luciano’s luck ran out when he was convicted and deported to Italy. And Murder Inc. and its professional hit men were out of business.

The FBI and its partners had scored some major successes against organized crime by the late 1940s, but hoodlums and racketeers were still operating and thriving in certain big cities—New York, Chicago, Detroit, to name a few.

During this time, we’d been using intelligence to paint a picture of criminal activities, mostly locally on a case-by-case basis. In 1946, we launched the General Investigative Intelligence Program—our first national criminal intelligence initiative—to survey the crime landscape and gather details on key players, including mobsters.

By the early 50s, we’d gained (according to one memo) \”considerable information concerning the background of operations of hoodlums and racketeers throughout the country,\” using informants, discrete inquiries, and public sources. We’d also pulled together intelligence through surveys on the Mafia, on bookmaking and race wire activities, and on other criminal rackets.

Vol. I No. 11 (September 7 , 2014)

Editors Note: Every Sunday evening at 7 pm we will post a weekly comic strip provided by cartoonist Dave Wolfe, age 13. Dave has been drawing since he was 5 years old, he knew he wanted to be a cartoonist at the age of 8. He’s been distributing his comics in school since 3^rd grade. (click on the image to enlarge)

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