EPA Rolls Back Environmental Regulations
We can’t let Trump roll back 50 years of environmental progress. “On the first Earth Day in 1970, millions of Americans took to the streets to demand clean air, water and land, and advocate for a healthier and more sustainable environment. By the end of the year, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was founded…Over […]
Win for public domain information
Title 17, section 105 of the US code forbids the federal government from claiming copyright over its own publications. No such restriction exists for state governments, however, and many states have asserted copyright over things that one would think couldn’t possibly be treated as private property: legal codes, case law, the very stuff that government […]
Flynn Documents Released
Trump blasts ‘scam’ Michael Flynn investigation after new FBI documents released By https://www.politico.com/staff/quint-forgey 04/30/2020 07:50 AM EDT, Updated: 04/30/2020 08:59 AM EDT https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/30/trump-blasts-scam-michael-flynn-investigation-after-new-fbi-documents-released-225509 “President Donald Trump vented outrage Thursday over the FBI’s treatment of Michael Flynn following the release of government records and recent media reports regarding the bureau’s 2017 investigation into his former national […]
Dr. Bright
On Politics: ‘Politics and Cronyism Ahead of Science’. New York: New York Times Company. Apr 23, 2020. “Is President Trump putting “politics and cronyism ahead of science”? Those were the words chosen by Rick Bright, the doctor who had been leading the federal effort to develop a coronavirus vaccine. This week he was removed from […]
Tax Change in Coronavirus Package Overwhelmingly Benefits Millionaires…
Tax Change in Coronavirus Package Overwhelmingly Benefits Millionaires, Congressional Body Finds. By Jeff Stein, The Washington Post, 16 April 20 “More than 80 percent of the benefits of a tax change tucked into the Corona virus relief package passed last month will go to those who earn more than $1 million annually, according to a […]
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