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- Recounts Erode Voter Confidence Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 7:16AMTULSA — Since an election was held three weeks ago for chief of one of the nation’s largest American Indian tribes, the incumbent and challenger have each been declared the winner — twice.
- Funding slashed for job training Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 7:07AMA federal job training program for low-income seniors has been hacked by the budget axe.
- Obama threatens veto of House GOP spending cuts Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 2:11AMCourting confrontation and compromise alike, House Republicans shrugged off President Barack Obama’s threat to veto legislation to cut federal spending by trillions of dollars on Monday while simultaneously negotiating with him over more modest steps to avert a potential government default.
- Vote count seesaws in bitter contest for Cherokee chief Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 10:17PMTULSA, Okla. - Since an election was held three weeks ago for chief of one of the largest American Indian tribes, the incumbent and challenger have each been declared the winner - twice.
- Oil, gas drilling could mean lots of jobs Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 8:32PMHarrison County — site of the first well drilled in the area (located between Jewett and Scio) — already has felt the impact. The value of vacant land has jumped from $1,500 an acre to between $7,500 and $10,000 an acre, according to Uhrichsville attorney Brad Hillyer.
- Path to U.S. citizenship quarter century long journey for one man, luck of the draw for another Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 11:16PMThe path to U.S. citizenship was a quarter-century-long journey fraught with risk of deportation for Mexican-born Ernesto Rosas. For Nigerian native Chiawalam, it was the luck of a lottery. As of June 24, both proudly call themselves U.S. citizens.
- Face the Nation this week: Can Washington act? Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 12:27PMSenators Durbin, Rubio and Coburn will discuss the latest on the debt limit debate with Bob Schieffer
- The new gas boom Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 5:07AMThe U.S. has a mammoth deposit of natural gas that could fuel the country for decades. Can it be safely extracted?
- NBA cuts 11% of workforce, 114 employees to lose jobs Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 3:18AMNBA spokesman Mike Bass Image Credit: Neilson Barnard/Getty Images The National Basketball Association (NBA) reportedly cut about 11% of its workforce, with 114 of its employees to lose their jobs. As noted at New York Times on Thursday, July 14, 2011, the 114 NBA employees will be coming from almost every division mostly in New [...]
- This week on Face the Nation: Can Washington act? Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 12:27AMSenators Durbin, Rubio and Coburn will discuss the latest on the debt limit debate with Bob Schieffer
- Mandatory e-verify will help our workers Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 11:51AMThe June unemployment numbers are bleak. Joblessness rose to 9.2 percent nationally. That means 14 million Americans can’t find jobs, and that number doesn’t include additional millions who are underemployed. Few new jobs were created during the last reporting period. It is clear all too many Americans are hurting.
- Ogden teachers, other unions rally for collective bargaining Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 11:21AMOgden teachers, other unions rally for collective bargaining By rosemary winters The Salt Lake Tribune Published Jul 15, 2011 07:53AM MDT Ogden • Wearing red T-shirts and waving black-and-white signs, an estimated 800 people rallied in Ogden’s Liberty Park on Thursday to protest the city school district’s decision to not negotiate a contract with its teachers union. Those joining the crowd were ...
- Saugatuck Township Board to take comments July 18 on proposed dunes settlement Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 11:26AMThe proposed agreement would allow Saugatuck Dunes LLC to build a nine-story hotel and condos on about 12 of the 320 acres of the former Denison property now owned by Oklahoma industrialist Aubrey McClendon.
- Pickens Losing to Koch in Billionaires’ Fight Over Natural-Gas Subsidies Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 3:29AMT. Boone Pickens, who’s been saying for more than a year that Congress was poised to pass his plan to subsidize natural-gas vehicles, may not have been expecting opposition led by fellow billionaire Charles Koch.
- S.F. weighs protecting ex-cons seeking homes, jobs Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 12:28AMEx-convicts may soon become a "protected class" in San Francisco - joining African Americans, Latinos, gays, transgender people, pregnant women and the disabled. A proposal being circulated at City Hall would make it...
- Fleets: Related News Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 12:08AM7/13/2011 - Teamsters, YRCW Approve Key Component in Restructuring Plan The Teamsters, lenders and embattled LTL YRC Worldwide approved final terms for an asset-based lending facility, which will provide part of the necessary ongoing operational liquidity for the company as it moves ahead with its restructuring plan....
- National Sports Briefs Tuesday, July 12, 2011 @ 9:20PMAssociated Press MINNEAPOLIS — The longer the Kurt Rambis saga dragged on, the bigger the mess got for president of basketball operations David Kah ...
- Barbara Ehrenreich: War Without Humans Monday, July 11, 2011 @ 8:46AMMany national leaders are beginning to acknowledge that conventional militaries are becoming almost ludicrously anachronistic. The sluggishness of the mass, labor-intensive military has become a constant source of frustration.
- Sales Tax Kickbacks Monday, July 11, 2011 @ 8:30AMNobody likes to see a big chunk of change – 6 or 7 or 8 percent – get added to the bill at the cash register, but many states and localities need sales taxes to make ends meet. As I swipe my card, I tell myself that at least the money is doing some public good.
- The fog of (robot) war Monday, July 11, 2011 @ 1:47AMFor a book about the all-too-human "passions of war", my 1997 work Blood Rites ended on a strangely inhuman note: I suggested that, whatever distinctly human qualities war calls upon - honor, courage, solidarity, cruelty, and so forth - it might be useful to stop thinking of war in exclusively human terms.
- Religion Enters Gas Fracking Debate Sunday, July 10, 2011 @ 4:57AMBishops, nuns and rabbis are joining the environmental and social debate over natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale region, and many are seeking a balance that reflects their congregations.
- So How’s That Stimulus Thing Working Out? Saturday, July 9, 2011 @ 12:51PMWe were told that the stimulus would have us down to 6.5% unemployment by now. The team at e21 has the real story: “Back in January 2009, Christina Romer and Jared Bernstein of the Obama adminstration produced a report estimating future unemployment rates with and without a stimulus plan.
- Jobs report points to still weak economy Friday, July 8, 2011 @ 10:05PMA weak jobs report released Friday shows the national economy is still struggling to recover two years after the official end of the recession. Though indications are the local and regional economy continues to expand, economists worry that growth could stall in the second half of this year.
- Rule Aims to Cut Smog, Soot From Coal Plants Friday, July 8, 2011 @ 5:51AMU.S. environmental regulators finalized a rule on Thursday to slash air pollution from coal-fired power plants in 27 states east of the Rocky Mountains that result in unhealthy levels of smog and soot
- Save Federal Funding for Bicycling Friday, July 8, 2011 @ 5:38AMIMBASummit2010_Day1_Hilride 35.jpg July 8, 2011
- Idaho Rep. Mike Simpson slashes environmental budgets Thursday, July 7, 2011 @ 10:14PMHe and other Republicans have irked environmental groups by pushing policy changes in the Interior and Environment appropriations bill
- EPA cracks down on Texas power plants Thursday, July 7, 2011 @ 10:13PMHOUSTON -- Texas power plants will have to significantly reduce ozone- and acid-rain causing pollution under new federal rules, a move that could further increase tensions between the state and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency just as Repub ...
- Farm subsidies may face cuts Thursday, July 7, 2011 @ 3:25PMFederal subsidies received by nearly 80,000 Tennessee farmers, including Republican Rep. Stephen Fincher of Frog Jump, are at risk as lawmakers scrutinize every corner of the federal budget for programs to cut.
- EPA requires Texas power plants to lower pollution Thursday, July 7, 2011 @ 2:07PMTexas power plants will have to significantly reduce ozone- and acid-rain causing pollution under new federal rules, a move that could further increase tensions between the state and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency just as Republican Gov. Rick Perry considers a presidential run.
- E.P.A. Sets New Standards for Coal-Burning Plants Thursday, July 7, 2011 @ 12:34PMThe agency said on Thursday that the cleaner air would prevent as many as 34,000 premature deaths.
