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The climate crisis, visualized: Retreat of the Athabasca Glacier

March 10th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Our Environment
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Report: Use of public transit in U.S. reaches highest level since 1956

March 10th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Public Planning

Report: Use of public transit in U.S. reaches highest level since 1956 The American Public Transportation Association announced in its annual report that more Americans

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Democrats see opening on Medicaid

March 9th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Healthcare

Our governor may not like the president, but this is not about the president… It’s about providing health coverage for 240,000 Louisianans who work forty

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Coal miners say they were surveilled, harassed after making safety complaints

March 8th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Economic Security, Open Government, Our Environment

Coal miners say they were surveilled, harassed after making safety complaints The Huffington Post chronicles the legal trouble that miners like Kentuckian Reuben Shemwell have

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Snowden says he raised NSA concerns internally over ten times before leaking documents

March 7th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Civil Liberties, Core Topics, Technology

I had reported these clearly problematic programs to more than ten distinct officials, none of whom took any action to address them. — Edward Snowden, explaining

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Russian forces reportedly seize Crimean military base

March 7th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, World Community

Russian forces reportedly seize Crimea military base A Ukranian military base in the port city of Sevastopol has been seized by forces thought to be

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Tim Scott rails against nutrition information in speech to CPAC

March 6th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Healthcare

We don’t need [federal law] forcing pizza places to tell us how many calories there are in our pizza, do we really want to know?

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Darrell Issa apologizes to Elijah Cummings, skirts censure

March 6th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Open Government

Darrell Issa apologizes to Elijah Cummings, skirts censure California Republican Darrell Issa, the wealthiest member of Congress and the chairman of the House Government Oversight

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Sam Seder weighs in on Darrell Issa’s abuse of power

March 6th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Open Government

The Majority Report’s Sam Seder gives his take on yesterday’s travesty of a public hearing by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Chairman Darrell

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President Putin’s fiction: Ten false claims about Ukraine

March 6th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, World Community

President Putin’s fiction: Ten false claims about Ukraine The United States Department of State debunks several of the recent claims Vladimir Putin has made to

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The sound of Hubbard Glacier

March 6th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Media & Culture, Our Environment

The sound of Hubbard Glacier, courtesy of Bernie Krause.

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Two Texas reproductive health clinics close, a harbinger of a coming access crisis

March 6th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Civil Liberties, Core Topics

Two Texas reproductive health clinics close, a harbinger of a coming access crisis

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The fallout from the Fukushima disaster, three years later

March 5th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Our Environment

Greenpeace Canada: The fallout from the Fukushima disaster, three years later

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Hundreds of youth arrested at anti-Keystone XL pipeline protest at White House

March 5th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Our Environment

Yesterday, hundreds of progressive students were arrested in front of the White House in what advocacy journalists say was one of the largest youth sit-ins

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Public school defenders launch movement in Austin

March 5th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Education

Public school defenders launch movement in Austin Ruth Conniff: “Deep in the heart of Texas, in the very center of what public-school advocate Diane Ravitch

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Robert Gates tells Republicans to cut back on criticizing President Obama

March 4th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, World Community

I think considerable care needs to be taken in terms of what is said, so that the rhetoric doesn’t threaten what policy can’t deliver. —

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Andy Hill’s proposed tax breaks would cost big in the long run

March 4th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Economic Security

Andy Hill’s proposed tax breaks would cost big in the long run The Washington Budget & Policy Center looks at the eighteen new tax breaks

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Where have all the lobbyists gone? Into the shadows, that’s where

March 4th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Open Government

Where have all the lobbyists gone? Into the shadows, that’s where The Nation’s Lee Fang: “On paper, the influence-peddling business is drying up. But lobbying

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Alaska wolf killings upset National Park Service

March 3rd, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Our Environment

Alaska wolf killings upset National Park Service The Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s dumb decision to slaughter an eleven-member wolf pack in the eastern

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Crimean resident: “We don’t need invaders in our streets”

March 2nd, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, World Community

We don’t need invaders in our streets… We haven’t invited them. There is no violence here. By deploying Russian soldiers in the Crimea, they sow

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To understand Crimea, take a look back at its complicated history

March 2nd, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, World Community

To understand Crimea, take a look back at its complicated history Several days ago, before it became apparent to the world that Russia had designs

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