| Feb 5, 2014 | UncategorizedCross Posted from the Sierra Club’s Compass blog On Sunday, a stormwater pipe burst underneath an unlined pit storing wet coal ash at a retired Duke Energy coal plant in Eden, North Carolina, spilling up to 82,000 tons of coal ash and 27 million gallons of...
| | Roundup|UncategorizedThis week in OtherWords, Mitchell Zimmerman, Khalil Bendib, and I weigh in on the Affordable Care Act and Jill Richardson ponders better ways to mark Valentine’s Day. On our blog, Karen Dolan sizes up the Farm Bill in verse. Do you want to make sure you...
| Feb 4, 2014 | Food / FarmingYou think bipartisan support is rare? Not when there’s cuts to poor people in there. The Farm Bill again cuts nutrition assistance And barely got any liberal resistance. More subsidies to support the Big Farmer Gets a signature from Barack...
| | Rights / DemocracyPresident Barack Obama’s support for the NSA’s domestic spying program prompted a critic to say: “Given the unique power of the state, it is not enough for leaders to say: ‘Trust us, we won’t abuse the data we collect.'” Oh wait,...
| Feb 2, 2014 | Rights / DemocracyWhatdya know? Chris Christie knew Cars wouldn’t go, They wouldn’t get through. Ex-pal Wildstein used his Authority, ‘Cuz vengeance, it seems, was Christie’s priority.
