an astounding 76.6 percent of Los Angeles voters “emphatically endorsed” the growing national call for a constitutional amendment, declaring “Only People Are People.”
an astounding 76.6 percent of Los Angeles voters “emphatically endorsed” the growing national call for a constitutional amendment, declaring “Only People Are People.”
Apple chief Tim Cook faced a grilling Tuesday by US lawmakers on “sham” subsidiaries and “convoluted” strategies to shift profits offshore
the AP called it an unprecedented intrusion into its newsgathering operations. But should the journalistic community be so surprised? With the Obama White House’s track record on whistleblowers and WikiLeaks, the move to spy on AP seems consistent with an administration more committed to secrecy than ever before.
In an unusually detailed letter sent Friday to Hagel, Reps. Jeff Miller, R-Fla., and Michael Michaud, D-Maine, said the Defense Department’s response to an earlier request about why records are missing — and what the military is doing about it — didn’t go far enough.
After finally admitting during the last BOC meeting that the still mythological community service fees to paid by the Jordan Cove LNG project are, in fact, "derivative of tax dollars", John Sweet now admits to promising the schools money to "get elected." Reporting on...
As tedious as many public meetings are to sit through one can almost always mine little nuggets of gold from statements made by elected officials. From the inception of the CEP (Community Enhancement Plan) elected leaders from Rep Caddy McKeown to Commissioner Melissa...
Unfortunately I missed this but at yesterday's BOC meeting Commissioner John Sweet lost his temper. According to witnesses Sweet started a conversation with Phil Thompson a few minutes before the board meeting. The conversation wound around to the gun resolution being...
New study looks at planetary, social and economic impacts of increasinly perilous Arctic melting
A leaked portion is downplayed as not representative of complete IPCC findings due out in September
Inviting people to think 40 years into the future helps them look beyond the current political morass.
US and EU called out for protecting their own subsidies while demanding world’s poorest citizens be pushed back into starvation
“Japanese officials say radioactive iodine above government recommended limit found in drinking water in Fukushima prefecture” – AP
In order to secure rights to property owners’ property via eminent domain, LNG pipeline developers must show the connecting facility is only for import, not export. Bob Braddock, of Jordan Cove Energy Partners, LLC was recently quoted in the Platts LNG Daily as saying Jordan Cove, Coos County Oregon could convert to an export terminal.
Betsy Spomer claims in a recent op-ed to want to earn our trust through “vigorous public discussion” and to demonstrate that her company, Jordan Cove Energy Partners, is a “responsible corporate neighbor”. This is an incongruous statement from the CEO of a company...
One thing we learned from the recent election is Jordan Cove Energy Partners fears direct democracy. The No campaign that opposed Measure 6-162 to establish a community Bill of Rights spent almost $50 per NO vote, most of it from the Canadian firm, to convince Coos...