“So they’re willing to let people lose their government paycheck so that they don’t lose their government paycheck,”
“So they’re willing to let people lose their government paycheck so that they don’t lose their government paycheck,”
The CDC issued a public health warning about the outbreak on Tuesday, October 8. The CDC has called in 10 salmonella experts who were furloughed because of the Republican shutdown of the federal government, now in its eighth day.
As some cash strapped governments choose to balance the budget on the backs of children and families, corporate contractors’ profits are soaring.
Can new progressive era rise from ashes of ‘era of obstructionism’ or is the descent of US democracy just beginning?
The recall of Matt Rowe may make it to the ballot… or will it? Jean Ivey Gurney has claimed to have in her possession “about 300” signatures toward putting the recall of Councilor Matt Rowe on the ballot. Ivey Gurney, who runs a local newspaper and has invited people...
The Sawdust Theatre may be closed for the season due to COVID-19 but there is still plenty of melodrama emanating from Coquille City Hall to provide entertainment through the rest of the summer. We are talking about the recall effort to oust City Councilman Matt Rowe...
- Jon Queally, staff writer A new peer-reviewed study in the UK is casting doubt on the current economic models widely used to calculate the full breadth of costs associated with global warming and argues the price tag for continued inaction on carbon pollution is...
Published on Friday, June 6, 2014 by Common Dreams - Jon Queally, staff writer Measure the cost of destructive climate change-related impacts in the trillions of dollars, says a United Nations report published Thursday.The report, which focuses on the world's 52...
Economist Richard Wolff discusses recent economic events including the impacts of raising the minimum wage
Noble was tasked with distributing a torrent of political money raised by the Koch network, a complex web of nonprofits nicknamed the Kochtopus
This is great and kind of funny because I have been joking for a long time with friends that we need a cross between Greenpeace and the Teamsters Union right here in Coos County. What these groups are acknowledging is that single focus groups can bring their issues together toward a broader concept, even one as drastic as re-envisioning how the economy works.
FERC conditioned its preliminary approval of the Jordan Cove/Pacific Connector project on the fact that it will be used to import “needed” foreign natural gas to the Western States. In April, Port of Coos Bay CEO Jeff Bishop took out an ad that helped confirm the worst fears of LNG opponents and property owners combined, that the real goal is to export.
A local pro-Trump faction calling itself Citizens Restoring Liberty (CRL) despite Trump winning Coos County by more than 20% have been making accusations of voter fraud and corruption within the county clerk office since 2020. When Coos County Clerk Debbie Heller took...
Taylor holds the false opinion that the federal government cannot own land, notably the highly coveted and timber rich Coos Bay Wagon Road (CBWR) lands. Taylor’s belief has been thoroughly debunked here and by legal scholars across the country but to date I haven’t seen that he has made a retraction to correct the false statements he has made during his campaign.