The IRS and Treasury Department announced proposed guidelines clarifying the definition of political activities for social welfare nonprofits
The IRS and Treasury Department announced proposed guidelines clarifying the definition of political activities for social welfare nonprofits
New tax documents, made public last Tuesday, indicate that at least $11.2 million of the grant money given to the group Americans for Tax Reform was spent on political activities expressly advocating for or against candidates
Henry Giroux explains how our political system has turned people into zombies – “people who are basically so caught up with surviving that they become like the walking dead — they lose their sense of agency, they lose their homes, they lose their jobs.”
Dan Savage lambasted both Liz and Mary Cheney during an interview with Real Time host Bill Maher on Friday, noting the irony of their arch Republican father Dick Cheney being thrust into the middle of their dispute.
The prime suspect in this potential murder mystery will soon become apparent but this story is about how a lackadaisical approach or a rush to judgment taken by the sheriff’s office and the medical examiner can deny justice to grieving families.
Covid-19 is the deadliest threat to the profession it is surprising that many law enforcement professionals and police unions oppose Covid vaccine mandates. Some police agencies including the Coos County Sheriff’s Office won’t enforce Covid safety regulations.
It’s taken longer than planned to publish part three in this series owing in part to the holidays but also verifying information and obtaining public records can be both costly and time consuming, particularly if the reporting agency puts up an argument. (We’ll have...
Published on Monday, January 12, 2015 by Common Dreams by Lauren McCauley, staff writer Hundreds of Stanford University professors published an open letter on Sunday demanding that the university divest the entirety of its holdings from all fossil fuel companies. "If...
Published on Wednesday, January 07, 2015 by Sarah Lazare, staff writer A groundbreaking new study is confirming what green campaigners have long argued: in order to stave off climate disaster, the majority of fossil fuel deposits around the world—including 92 percent...
After intense criticism from both ends of the political spectrum, the Internal Revenue Service has delayed indefinitely proposed rules that would have imposed new limits on social welfare nonprofits,
With progressives nationwide yearning for a bold populist movement, is there any chance their hopes will be met in the upcoming midterm elections or on the 2016 presidential battlefield?
In March 1990, a truck backed into a transformer at the at the Alan Vogtle nuclear plant near Augusta, Georgia. The resulting local blackout caused the heat pump for one of the two reactors at Vogtle to switch off. One of the backup diesel generators was down at the time for scheduled maintenance and another failed to start.
TEPCO has discovered locations on the Fukushima plant site with lethal levels of external gamma radiation. Fairewinds takes a close look at how this radiation might have been deposited and how similar radioactive material would have been released offsite.
Kathleen Belew studies social movements and far-right groups like CRL noting they have various common factors such as “members of the Klan, militias, radical tax resisters, white separatists, neo-Nazis, and proponents of white theologies such as Christian Identity, Odinism, and Dualism…” Insurrectionist and pistol packing Taylor ticks some of these boxes possibly including tax resister.
Mr. Taylor has an extensive agenda beyond what I have discussed here. Mr. Taylor thinks his proposals can be implemented inside Coos County even when they conflict with state or federal law by using voter approved ballot measures or a voter authorized Home Rule Charter.