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• Murder Survivors Speak in their Own Words

  
  German Joys — Authority: 130
  In the wake of the execution of John A. Muhammad for a 2002 cross-country murder spree, the Washington Post reports on murder victims relatives who have witnessed the execution of the person who killed their family members: The same note...
  1 day ago

• German Joys Fundraising Appeal: Gulf Regional Advocacy Center

  
  German Joys — Authority: 130
  We interrupt this blog for some naked fundraising. Last Tuesday, I had the pleasure of hosting an impromptu speech by Danalynn Recer, Executive Director of the Gulf Regional Advocacy Center (GRACE), in Houston, Texas. Recer started GRACE in 2002, bringing...
  2 days ago

• Health Vote Update: Cao & Hill Favor Constituents Over Health Lobby

  
  CafeSentido.com — Authority: 502
  Last night, every Republican but one voted against the House of Representatives’ monumental healthcare reform package. Anh Joseph Cao has said he came to understand the need to vote to pass the sweeping healthcare reform program, after listening to the concerns of constituents desperate to find a way to secure ...
  3 days ago

• House Passes Health Bill 220 to 215

  
  CafeSentido.com — Authority: 502
  At 10:59 pm Saturday evening, a 15-minute vote was called. Members of the House were then to vote yea or nay by electronic device. By 11:01 pm, the vote was 197 to 184 and moving quickly. The vote tally will not be final until the Speaker drops the gavel to close the vote. By 11:03 pm, 36 Democrats had voted against ...
  4 days ago

• The Whole Enchilada - A Summary of the Water Bills

  
  Switchboard, from NRDC — Authority: 645
  Here is an excellent summary of the water reform package passed by the state legislature on Nov. 4, as well as a summary of the water bond – with links to the final language.  My colleagues and I will be writing about each of the reform bills in the coming week.  NRDC took no position on the bond.  The ...
  5 days ago

• On Leadership and the Water Package

  
  Switchboard, from NRDC Barry Nelson's Blog — Authority: 106
  A great deal has been written about the substance of the water reform bills that was passed by the legislature in the wee hours Wednesday.  Here’s  NRDC’s statement on the three key bills.  And here’s a thoughtful editorial from the Los Angeles Times this morning.  I’ll write more about the substance ...
  5 days ago

• A Great Environmental Steward

  
  Switchboard, from NRDC Peter Lehner's Blog — Authority: 91
  President Obama and EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson today appointed Judith Enck as the head of EPAs key region two office, the office that handles environmental issues in New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands and seven Tribal Nations. I worked closely with Judith for eight years at the New York ...
  6 days ago

• Bluedogs Have Made Health Reform More Expensive

  
  CafeSentido.com — Authority: 502
  Conservative Democrats in the House of Representatives have fought hard to make the public option, and therefore healthcare reform broadly, both less effective and more expensive. How and why they did so is puzzling: while claiming they wanted to contain costs, they went about attacking the most salient cost-cutting ...
  1 week ago

• Off to Cleveland Today to Testify for Great Lakes and Oceans

  
  Switchboard, from NRDC — Authority: 645
  Im off to Cleveland this morning to testify at the Great Lakes regional meeting of the National Ocean Policy Task Force.  As a native Ohioan, I am excited to return to my home state and take this important opportunity to speak in favor of a national policy that the Obama Administration is creating to ensure ...
  1 week ago

• Rights Contracts Seek to Control Distribution “Across the Universe” (video)

  
  CafeSentido.com — Authority: 502
  Intellectual property rights are complicating and expanding at an unprecedented rate. Now, as reported by the Wall Street Journal, lawyers are writing contracts that require artists to sign over all potential distribution and marketing rights for their work, “across the universe” and “in perpetuity”. ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Wheels of the Clean Energy Economy

  
  Switchboard, from NRDC — Authority: 645
  In a previous post , I asked why we dont consider the federal transportation bill a major energy bill. Leaving that question aside, on Friday, Senators John Kerry and Barbara Boxer introduced a bill that couldnt be mistaken for anything else: the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act (S. 1733). As much as we ...
  2 weeks ago

• Departing LAPD Chief Warns Against Using Local Cops Against Illegal Immigrants

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 155
  The departing chief of the Los Angeles Police Department jumped into the fray today over the controversial 287(g) program in the pages of the Los Angeles Times. Opening with a story about an undocumented homeless immigrant who gave the LAPD an important tip that helped that helped them crack the case of a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Investor’s Business Daily Misleads on Polar Bears

  
  Switchboard, from NRDC — Authority: 645
  Investor’s Business Daily just published a foolish editorial about the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services recent proposal to designate over 200,000 square miles of Alaskan coast and sea ice as “critical habitat” for the State’s beleaguered polar bear population.  The editorial doesn’t contain much in the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Reform Watch: Gay Rights Protections

  
  CafeSentido.com — Authority: 502
  The push to ensure full civil rights equality for gays marked a major milestone last week with the passage of the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act. Though Republicans opposed the measure so aggressively they voted in large numbers against funding the national defense in order to deny the extension of federal ...
  2 weeks ago

• Reform Watch: Healthcare, Education, Nuclear Non-proliferation & Military Spending

  
  CafeSentido.com — Authority: 502
  Healthcare Reform Two Senate Democrats have pledged not to aid Republicans in blocking a full Senate vote in healthcare reform legislation. That moves the Democratic majority closer to the 60 votes needed to avoid a filibuster and bring the bill to a floor vote that will require only 50 votes plus one. This means ...
  2 weeks ago

• Americans are Dying to Support our Fossil Fuel Habit

  
  Switchboard, from NRDC — Authority: 645
  A new report  from the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) reveals that our energy bills are $120bln higher than they appear due to the "hidden costs" associated with the air pollution created by burning fossil fuels. The NAS report, which was commissioned by the US Treasury on ...
  2 weeks ago

• John McCain Introduces Legislation to Prevent Net Neutrality Rules

  
  CafeSentido.com — Authority: 502
  John McCain, the Arizona Republican who ran against Barack Obama in last year’s presidential election, today introduced in the Senate the “Internet Freedom Act”, in a brazen bid to make the internet far less free for the average web surfer. The bill would bar the FCC from enacting regulations that would prevent ...
  2 weeks ago

• My TV Pick for Tonight

  
  German Joys — Authority: 130
  ...is Artes Das Gesetz von Las Vegas. This is a series of five two-hour documentaries about real criminal cases in Las Vegas. I watched the fourth installment online (HT A.M.; thanks for the links!) and was deeply impressed. The fifth...
  2 weeks ago

• In An Important Step, U.S. Designates Polar Bear Critical Habitat

  
  Switchboard, from NRDC — Authority: 645
  It’s been a good couple of weeks for polar bears.  First, the Department of the Interior announced that it would propose tighter international regulations of polar bear trophy hunting and trade under international law and, today, the Department of the Interior unveiled a proposal to designate 200,000 square miles ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Law of Las Vegas

  
  German Joys — Authority: 130
  On Arte +7, you can still watch a documentary about a murder case in Las Vegas called Das Gesetz von Las Vegas (g) here. We see real public defenders and real prosecutors gearing up for a case involving a nutty...
  3 weeks ago

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