Federal Emergency Management Agency’s flood insurance maps are critically important for millions of Americans who live in flood-prone areas.
Federal Emergency Management Agency’s flood insurance maps are critically important for millions of Americans who live in flood-prone areas.
Economist Dean Baker breaks down the loopholes that allow corporations to dodge higher tax rates
A Better America Now, reported to the Federal Election Commission it had spent about $65,000 for the mailer and TV advertising in the hard-fought race to represent Texas’ 23rd district.
Ecuador indicated its offer of ‘human rights assistance’ to the US could be used to help address its recent problems with torture, illegal executions, and the attack on the privacy of its citizens.
Coos County’s progressive community has absolutely no representation on the county commission. Discussing the merits of participating in a class action lawsuit proposed by Linn County against the State of Oregon, the commissioners made it clear that nature only has...
It's no secret that the Coos County Board of Commissioners is no fan of Matt Rowe. Rowe was, until last Thursday, running unopposed for the county treasurer's position on a what he calls a transparency platform. Last week, Megan Simms, the newly hired finance...
"If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.” Ma Joad spoke those words in John Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath after someone of equally modest means gave her a dime’s worth of sugar. This sentiment,...
US Military acknowledges global warming
to avoid an increase in temperature of two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit), the world would require a “revolutionary change to the political and economic hegemony.”
“Suddenly, for just that one brief, miraculous shining moment, Democrat, Republican, white, Black, all believed in Santa again,” Stewart said excitedly.
more than three dozen economists a host of questions about trends in the current economy, the survey discovered that one of the chief concerns shared by most is the stagnation of the middle class as the rich get richer
Natural gas obtained by hydraulic fracturing will contribute more to global warming than coal over its life cycle according to a new Cornell University study. “Methane and the Greenhouse-Gas Footprint of Natural Gas from Shale Formations”, by Robert W. Howarth, Renee Santoro, and Anthony Ingraffea will be published soon in Climate Change and shatters beliefs held by the White House that domestic natural gas burns cleaner.
Arne Gundersen of Fairewinds Associates demonstrates how the fuel rods in the Fukushima DaiIchi nuclear power plants melt and shatter.
In defiance of the Governor’s mask mandate to help slow the rampant spread of COVID Main hosts about thirty anti-maskers during today’s commissioner meeting
According to Ballotpedia, even after the Oregon District 5 Senate seat, long held by Democrats was taken over by a Republican this November, Democrats still control 63% of the State House and 60% of the State Senate. Exactly how much of the legislature do Democrats...