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Hidden Financial Ties Rattle Top Health Quality Group
It raises significant concerns about oversight of the burgeoning quality improvement industry.
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NPR’s “The Salt” Blog Muddies the Issue of Sewage Sludge
In a muddled attack on the Center for Media and Democracy and those who are concerned about produce grown in sewage sludge, “The Salt,” NPR's James Beard award-winning food …
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Democrats Introduce Bill to Restore FCC’s Net-Neutrality Rules
Democrats in Congress have introduced legislation that would restore net-neutrality rules struck down last month by a federal appeals court.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: 25 States Have Refused to Expand Medicaid, and More
Millions of Americans are now realizing that they're too poor to afford Obamacare - and it's all thanks to Republican lawmakers across the country, and more.
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Staples Plucks Postal Jobs
Across the country, local delegations visited Staples stores in January to threaten a boycott unless the retailer's new “postal units” are staffed by actual postal employees.
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Argentine Activists Win First Round Against Monsanto Plant
Residents of a town in Argentina have won the first victory in their fight against biotech giant Monsanto, but they are still at battle stations, aware that winning the …
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Nordheim: a Texas Town Facing a Toxic Future
The installation of a giant waste disposal plant where fracking industry waste would be trucked in from a 100-mile radius will undoubtedly bring more unwelcome changes.
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Shale Stories: Obama’s Clean Energy Future Is a Fracking Nightmare for Rural America
“Shalefield Stories,” a new collection of stories by people who have been negatively affected by fracking in their communities, is yet another testimony to the dark side of America's …
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New Study: Anti-Homophobic School Policy Reduces Suicide Risk – for All Students
Heterosexual males were half as likely to attempt suicide in schools with gay-straight alliances.
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Prosperity for Main Street, Not Wall Street
The key reason that communities are struggling is the huge burden of interest payments that are flowing to the big banks.