The Pork Lobbyists, Ready to Reassure
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on May 4th, 2009 4:32 am by HL
The Pork Lobbyists, Ready to Reassure
It was Day 7 of the great swine flu outbreak, and inside the eighth-floor conference room in a concrete hulk of an office building on Capitol Hill, the pork lobbyists were in crisis mode. The National Pork Producers Council, whose members were watching with dismay as hog prices fell, labored to r…
Allan Comp: Pushing Enforcing Cleanup Projects Nationwide
The most impoverished and environmentally degraded communities in America are found in the Appalachian coal country and the isolated mining communities of the Mountain West. For many, these problems are invisible. For Allan Comp, they are all-consuming.
4th-Grader Questions Rice on Waterboarding
Days after telling students at Stanford University that waterboarding was legal “by definition if it was authorized by the president,” former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice was pressed again on the subject yesterday by a fourth-grader at a Washington school.
