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Photo by Michael Holahan/The Augusta Chronicle.
The Russian election-hacking whistleblower was sentenced to record-breaking prison term. |
FERC commissioner Robert F. Powelson is becoming the head of the lobbying group for private water corporations. It’s yet another example of FERC’s revolving door.
The revolving door that leads government overseers to the industries they are mean to monitor keeps turning and turning… |
 The companies, investors, banks, and executives that stand to make money from Trump’s zero tolerance and indefinite detention policies? |
 In another border county, officials have debated budgetary and oversight concerns related to federal Homeland Security grants to local law enforcement—but not... |
Public school teachers rallying in North Carolina. Photo courtesy of the North Carolina Association of Educators.
A look at the billionaires and corporate forces that created the crisis that striking teachers are responding to. |
Buffalo City Hall, Niagara Square 24 March, 2018
My best childhood friend was murdered with and by a gun. Enough is enough. |
 The Department of Energy and the NYS Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) will hold public scoping hearings about the West Valley Nuclear Waste... |
 Fueled by tax dollars and Goldman Sachs, just one major national retailer is still selling sells AR-15s. |