Spitzer’s candidacy is being challenged by the madam who allegedly provided him with prostitutes.
Spitzer’s candidacy is being challenged by the madam who allegedly provided him with prostitutes.
The acquital of George Zimmerman for killing unarmed high-schooler Trayvon Martin serves as a reminder of the continuing inequities in America’s criminal justice system
an ALEC model bill known as “The Animal and Ecological Terrorism Act” would make it a crime to film at animal facilities — such as factory farms or slaughterhouses
“The likelihood that what emerges from the coming talks will serve ordinary Americans’ interests is low. The outlook for ordinary citizens in other countries is even bleaker.” -economist Joseph Stiglitz
In case you missed it, the race for treasurer has gotten a bit strange. The office has recently been gutted by the commissioners diverting several duties to a new finance director/administrator and the salary slashed in half. Yet we now have three vying for the...
Time for a little mea culpa. Eight years ago, of the two choices available, I considered Bob Main the most likely candidate to represent the populist view. The county's assessor at the time, I even felt Main might be slightly more reasonable when it came to...
Commissioner John Sweet bristles whenever anyone dares to note the similarities between the newly created position of finance director and a county administrator. The latter, as everyone will remember, was brought before the voters in 2012 asking whether the county...
Enter Cochin, Kinder Morgan’s 1,900-mile proposed pipeline to transport gas produced via the controversial hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) of the Eagle Ford Shale basin in Texas north through Kankakee, Illinois, and eventually into Alberta, Canada, the home of the tar sands.
Study: twice as much methane as previously thought being released from East Siberian Arctic Shelf
More than 80 percent hope Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) will bring his agenda items and energy to 2016 contest; Most want challenge from within Democratic Party
President Obama has ordered an early release from prison for Clarence Aaron
Nuclear engineer, Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Associates discusses the late designation of a Level 7 event at Fukushima and likens the limited flow of information to the handling of Three Mile Island.
Expanding the evacuation zone will displace more than a million people and force the extended condemnation of wide areas of land. This raises the cost per kilowatt hour of the electricity once generated at Fukushima DaiIchi Nuclear Power Plant to levels beyond any government’s ability to subsidize.
A complaint has been filed with the Coos Bay Police Department against Matt Holman and others for assault
Taylor urges the crowd to help gather 200 to 300 like minded individuals to take on Gleason at the October 7 school board meeting in a show of intimidation. Mind you, one of Gleason’s bosses, Bob Main is in the audience the entire time and Taylor even introduces him to the crowd for having the courage to attend.