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Lax Enforcement Puts California Schools at Risk in Earthquakes
State regulators have routinely failed to enforce California’s landmark earthquake safety law for public schools, allowing children and teachers to occupy buildings with structural flaws and potential safety hazards …
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Two Unreasonable Women
They're back. Actually, they never left, they just laid low while the heat of political anger blew over. They are the schemers and scammers of Wall Street …
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Not Licensed to Kill: America’s Imperious Attitude in Pakistan Is Wearing Thin
There was a truly bizarre and telling paragraph at the end of a Wall Street Journal news report today on Pakistan’s demand that the US bring home hundreds of …
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The Justice Dept. Doesn’t “Legalize” War With Secret Memos Anymore: Now They’re Public
In the good old days of Bybee and Yoo, before we let them get away with it, thereby guaranteeing worse things to come, Justice Department memos “legalizing” the crime …
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Floodlines: Community and Resistance From Katrina to the Jena Six
Parts of the story are familiar. In late August, 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast. Floodwaters broke the levees in New Orleans and the city was devastated—first by …
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Study: Employment, Not Taxes, Drives Families’ Decisions to Move Across State Lines
Amherst - As the New England states continue to struggle with serious budget shortfalls, policymakers face pressure to turn to increased taxes to replenish the coffers. Opponents raise the …
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Uranium Mining Threatens Grand Canyon Communities
An orphan uranium mine at the Grand Canyon. (Photo: tbone_sandwich) Flagstaff, Arizona - Over a thousand uranium mines have already contaminated water across the Southwest, poisoning communities …
Libya: All About Oil, or All About Banking?
A line of rebel trucks wait at the western entrance to Ajdabiya, Libya, on April 11, 2011. (Photo: Bryan Denton / The New York Times) Several writers …
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Lies About the US Civil War 150 Years Later
Tuesday marks 150 years since the start of the US Civil War. Newspapers everywhere are proclaiming it the deadliest war in US history, the costliest US war in terms …
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Report: Big Profits Drove Faulty Ratings at Moody’s, S&P
Washington - Analysts who reviewed complex mortgage bonds that ultimately collapsed and ruined the U.S. housing market were threatened with firing if they lost lucrative business, prompting faulty ratings …