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Imagine that Barack Obama, upon taking office in January 2009, had decided to deliver on his campaign promise to "to end business-as-usual in Washington so we can bring about …

Washington - Frustrated with limited data on the BP oil gusher, a group of independent scientists has proposed a large experiment that would give a clearer understanding of where …

Barack Obama's crippling inheritance as President of the United States is the near-five-decade failure of the nation's political leadership to heed President Dwight D. Eisenhower's warning that "in the …

Washington - It's odd how little we've heard lately from the skeptics who deny that climate change is real. What's the matter, people? Heat stroke? The Venus-like heat that …

Oakland Local is a community-based independent media organization on the scene in Oakland, California. They are covering the ongoing reaction to the verdict of “involuntary manslaughter” for Johannes Mehserle, …

A jury of Johannes Mehserle’s peers has declared him guilty in the death of Oscar Grant — but it comes with a very important caveat: “involuntary manslaughter.” By all …

As a group of about 40 of us gathered in Tucson's state building preparing to be arrested as a result of the passage of a new anti-ethnic-studies law in …

Lihue - This is a story about a surfer named Tom. Born and raised on Kauai, Tom has been surfing since he was a small child. He has a …

Six years after his death, the murdered union leader still agitates. On January 22, 2004, leader of the Free Trade Union of Workers of the Kingdom of …

A coalition of environmental and agricultural technology groups have sued the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) for permitting open-air testing of genetically engineered eucalyptus trees across seven southern states, …