Thursday, September 29, 2011
Maine Elections Chief Uses GOP List To Intimidate Student Voters And Encourage Them To Re-Register In Another State
Maine Elections Chief Uses GOP List To Intimidate Student Voters And Encourage Them To Re-Register In Another State: pThe latest voter suppression tactic employed by Republicans can be found in Maine, where last week the Secretary of State sent a threatening letter to hundreds of college students who were legally registered to vote in Maine, floating the possibility of election law violation and encouraging them to re-register elsewhere. The letter explained that Maine [...]/p
NASA’s Hansen: “If We Stay on With Business as Usual, the Southern U.S. Will Become Almost Uninhabitable.”
NASA’s Hansen: “If We Stay on With Business as Usual, the Southern U.S. Will Become Almost Uninhabitable.”: pClimatologist Slams Media for “Silent Summer”: Poor Coverage of Link Between Extreme Weather and Human-Caused Climate Change The nation’s top climatologist, NASA’s James Hansen, has a new paper out — and he has been speaking out. At 350.org’s Moving Planet event in New York on Saturday, he said: “Climate change — human-made global warming — [...]/p
Economists: Coal Is Incredibly Costly
Economists: Coal Is Incredibly Costly: pA new economic analysis of the costs of pollution to the United States finds that coal power is harming the economy. In the American Economic Review article “Environmental Accounting for Pollution in the United States Economy,” economists Nicholas Z. Muller, Robert Mendelsohn, and William Nordhaus model the physical and economic consequences of emissions of six [...]/p
Ohio’s Anti-Union Law Jeopardizes Public Safety With Depleted Staff, Slower Response Times
Ohio’s Anti-Union Law Jeopardizes Public Safety With Depleted Staff, Slower Response Times: pIn March, Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) signed an overwhelmingly unpopular anti-union bill into law that stripped the state’s employees of almost all of their collective bargaining rights. While Gov. Scott Walker’s (R) more infamous union-busting law in Wisconsin actually let police officers and firefighters off the hook, the Washington Independent notes that Kasich’s law [...]/p
Jeopardizes public safety.
Jeopardizes public safety.
SC Governor's Drug Testing for Unemployed
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Pat Buchanan: Warren Buffett Is A ‘Bit Of A Hot Dog’ Who Should Pay His Secretary’s Taxes
Pat Buchanan: Warren Buffett Is A ‘Bit Of A Hot Dog’ Who Should Pay His Secretary’s Taxes: pSince he announced his support for raising taxes on the wealthy, Warren Buffett has become the go-to billionaire boogeyman of the right, receiving a constant flow of personal attacks from conservatives upset that he’s spoken about how his secretary pays a higher tax rate than he does thanks to problems with the tax code. The [...]/p
Morning Briefing: September 29, 2011
Morning Briefing: September 29, 2011: pA new study by the Pew Hispanic Center finds that for the first time in history, there are more Hispanic children in poverty in America than white children. About 6.1 million Hispanic are poor, compared to “5 million non-Hispanic white children and 4.4 million black children.” Today, the German parliament overwhelmingly approved an expansion in [...]/p
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