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Are Electric Co-ops All So Different?
(Blog Post) The Old Dominion Electric Cooperative argues it is different than commercial utilities because it adheres to the "Seven Cooperative Principles," the last of which is ...Posted by Barry Grossheim -
The Failure of Empathy
American G.I., Alyssa Peterson, who committed suicide after refusing to torture Iraqi prisoners. "The official probe of her death would later note that earlier she had ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
How will Roberts Rule on Clean Water?
In the mining case being argued today, the Army Corps of Engineers granted a permit for a gold mine north of Juneau, Alaska, to Coeur Alaska which allows the company to ...Posted by Barry Grossheim -
Foreshadowing the Bush Legacy on Coal
To assess what has been handed down from his [George W. Bush] eight years in office is doable. To write about what will last long- term is harder. One exception, though, comes ...Posted by Barry Grossheim -
New FBI Guidelines: More COINTELPRO?
[Disclosure: author is a NewsTrust staff member. The portion quoting Jeanne Roberts was added after her review and hence there is no reference to her relationship to the ...Posted by Chris Finnie -
The Big Tent in Denver
[Disclosure: The is a post from the blog of a NewsTrust staff member.] It seems some of the more serious conversation on the future of the Democratic party in Denver this ...Posted by Barry Grossheim -
Ecoterrorism, not
[DISCLOSURE: This piece is from the private blog of a NewsTrust staff member] But Blue Ridge Earth First! activists as eco-terrorists? Five folks who blockaded Dominion ...Posted by Chris Finnie -
Filibuster Threats Stops Energy Votes...Again
What's causing the "pain at the pumps?" Like me, you may have read the oil companies and the Bush Administration's arguments that demand from China and India is responsible. ...Posted by Barry Grossheim -
McCain's Health Plan embraces troubled model
Although the Journal would be expected to be sympathetic to Mr. McCain, it actually pointed out that the plan has more problems than those of his Democratic rivals. While all ...Posted by Barry Grossheim -
Cap and trade: "inefficent and ineffective"
Over the weekend, Laurie Williams and Allan Zabel, two Oakland, CA EPA attorneys, speaking as private citizens, sent an open letter to every member of Congress indicating that ...Posted by Chris Finnie
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--parsing the public option
i see little evidence that ...a sufficient number supporting reform will com up with sufficient changes.Posted by Patricia L'Herrou -
More on the FY2009 Budget and the Unitary Executive
[T]he theory of the "unitary executive" ...has been used...since Nixon's time when "modern presidents have had a difficult time relying upon the traditional powers of ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Security, Privacy & Government Accountability
As the Senate Judiciary Committee takes up its consideration of the currently proposed changes to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) laws, advocates for the ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
FCC Holds "Public" Hearing on Localism Today. Why the Short Notice?
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) says that promoting "localism " is one of its key goals of its ownership rules, along with competition and diversity... Despite ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
John Tanner comes to Congress (finally). What the fuss is about
John K. Tanner has headed the Voting Section of the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice since 2005... Tanner, of course, is not the only problem at ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala
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