Daily Archives: March 13th, 2012

U.S. Senate rejects the latest Republican plot to open the Arctic Refuge to oil drilling

Excerpt:	Some good news for a change from the other Washington today: The U.S. Senate has resoundingly rejected the latest Republican plot to open the Arctic Refuge’s Coastal Plain to oil drilling, defeating an amendment offered by Pat Roberts of Kansas intended to allow big oil companies like Shell or BP to begin despoiling one of […]
Published at:	10:24 PM on Tuesday, March 13th, 2012
Written by:	Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:	Our Environment, Policy Topics
Tags:	Climate Crisis, Energy & Power, Pollution
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Excerpt:	Rick Santorum is on a roll. Less than one hundred hours after decisively winning the Kansas Republican caucuses, he appears to have swept tonight’s contests in the Deep South, despite having to share the conservative vote with Newt Gingrich: Rick Santorum scored a pair of primary victories in Alabama and Mississippi, according to network projections, […]
Published at:	8:30 PM on Tuesday, March 13th, 2012
Written by:	Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:	Elections
Tags:	US-Pres
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Excerpt:	A couple hours ago, following a lengthy hearing, Thurston County Superior Court Judge Thomas McPhee ordered that Referendum 74, the right wing’s attempt to force a public vote on Washington’s new marriage equality law, be given a new ballot title, after considering challenges to the original ballot title written by the Attorney General’s office by […]
Published at:	6:41 PM on Tuesday, March 13th, 2012
Written by:	Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:	Civil Liberties, Elections, Policy Topics
Tags:	Marriage Equality, WA-Ballot
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