Yearly Archives: 2017
15 lawmakers plotting to privatize America’s public lands
With the West already losing to development one football field's worth of natural areas every two and a half minutes, these shared lands are more important than ever.
Unintended consequences foul the Trump swamp
What about truly damaging accumulations of unintended consequences that emerge from Trump incompetence, instability and hypocrisy on repeated pledges?
Republicans, obsessed with gutting Obamacare, other social programs: That’s called committing political suicide
It will be time for these politicians that have no vision to begin writing their political obituaries, because they will face political extinction in the elections of 1018 and 2020.
Baiting the hermit kingdom: No change in North Korea policy under Trump
Diplomacy may take time and patience, but if policymakers would put as much faith into it as they do to the military solutions that we’ve seen fail time and again, we might see some progress in easing tensions in many of the world’s hotspots, including on the Korean Peninsula.
Trump’s weekend trips to Mar-a-Lago are costing taxpayers
Trump has spent every weekend in Florida since his presidency, apart from the very first weekend he stepped into office.
While one Louisiana town’s lead-tainted water system is replaced, dozens of others deteriorate
Federal help available to states for upgrading water systems is a drop in the bucket compared to what is needed across the country.
3 months and counting: Pipeline leaks natural gas into Alaska’s Cook Inlet
The 8-inch pipeline, owned and operated by Hilcorp Alaska, is leaking more than 210,000 cubic feet of gas per day.
The cuts in Trump’s budget you haven’t heard about
While national outrage is focused on Public Broadcasting and the National Endowment for the Arts, tiny agencies helping communities that teeter on the edge of poverty would also disappear.
Powerful South Carolina political consultant implicated in indictments of a veteran state senator
Investigation echoes findings of Capitol Gains series
H.R. 1101 threatens small business owners and employees
Prior to the ACA, small business owners paid substantially more on average for health coverage and received fewer comprehensive benefits than larger companies.