The United States Wednesday stood hours from a fateful fiscal deadline, with a chaotic political standoff threatening to trigger a debt default and rock the global economy
The United States Wednesday stood hours from a fateful fiscal deadline, with a chaotic political standoff threatening to trigger a debt default and rock the global economy
Senate leaders appear close to a deal to avoid a self-inflicted political calamity that would shred US credibility and rock the global economy.
politics, money and the pursuit of oil, from the series of pipelines originating in the oil-rich Caspian Sea to the deposits in the Arctic Sea
In a wrongful termination lawsuit, Segarra says she was fired by the Fed after she refused to change a finding Goldman Sachs had inadequate controls over conflicts of interest.
The clumsily run campaign to recall Coquille City Councilor Matt Rowe has failed to turn in the required 250 valid signatures to put the matter before the voters. Comprised of what amounted to little more than a Matt Rowe enemies list which included Coquille Mayor...
Time is running out for the Committee to Recall Rowe to turn in 250 valid signatures of registered Coquille voters by September 1, in order to put the matter on the ballot. The committee is being run out of Jean Ivey-Gurney’s office on the corner of Central Avenue...
Coquille Mayor Kathy Simonetti acknowledges downtown business owners failed to meet their fiscal responsibility to fix sidewalks that caused multiple serious falls. In a letter to the editor of a local newspaper meant to disparage City Councilor Matt Rowe, Mayor Kathi...
Published on Sunday, September 21, 2014 by Common Dreams by Deirdre Fulton, staff writer Global mobilization is exceeding expectations on Sunday, with hundreds of thousands of people taking to the streets demanding action on climate change on the eve of the UN Climate...
Published on Tuesday, September 16, 2014 by Common Dreams by Sarah Lazare, staff writer What does climate change have to do with capitalism? According to "Flood Wall Street" organizers, who are part of a mass people's response to the upcoming United Nations Climate...
Are strategic Obama administration leaks laying the groundwork for making extrajudicial assassinations acceptable to public, just another necessary thing to keep us safe?
An Arizona pizza place has won itself online support after posting a defiant response to the Republican-backed law legalizing discrimination against the LGBT communities.
During the month of April, Seattle residents breathed in strontium, cesium, plutonium, cobalt and more at a rate of five hot particles per day. In the area around Fukushima residents were breathing in forty times that while Tokyo breathed in one part per day.
New reports indicate the contamination from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is much worse than the government first let on. Japan’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency has more than doubled its estimate for the amount of radiation that leaked and there are estimates that an area of 600 square kilometers is now uninhabitable
The Coos County Sheriff’s Office has a difficult time retaining staff. In fact, it could be said the department is hemorrhaging deputies, losing four possibly five jailors in the last year and 11 patrol deputies in just the last seven months.
Ms. Cribbins opponent Rod Taylor says the County should refuse state and federal funds because the money has “strings attached”. This policy would quickly force the County into insolvency. Mr. Taylor also wants the County to disobey state and federal laws the Commissioners don’t like.