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Drill, Baby, Drill

Posted on May 31, 2010 by Featheriver

Photo: A view of the oil slick from space by NASA on May 24, 2010. The Deepwater Horizon BP oil spill is the biggest environmental disaster in U.S. history. It is an oil gusher from the sea floor of the … Continue reading →

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Maddow and Thomas Frank bicker over conservatism

Posted on March 14, 2010 by Featheriver

Rachel Maddow and Thomas Frank, author of The Wrecking Crew, All about conservatism and privatizing government.

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Sunshine Week 2010 Webcast “Building Transparency in Government

Posted on March 14, 2010 by Featheriver

SUNSHINE WEEK 2010 WEBCAST   BUILDING TRANSPARANCY IN GOVERNMENT The League of Women Voters of Pahrump Valley will host a local viewing of the WEBCAST of the fifth annual Sunshine Week event being held at the Center for American Progress, … Continue reading →

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Warrantless electronic surveillance of you

Posted on December 6, 2009 by Featheriver

Cell phones, e-mail, websites, Twitter and the like are handy means for communications of people. However, did you know that communications companies provide information about you to law enforcement agencies? No judicial warrant necessary. Christopher Soghoian, a graduate student at … Continue reading →

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HEALTH CARE OF THE PAST AND FOR THE FUTURE

Posted on November 14, 2009 by Featheriver

We’ve all read about or watched news on TV about the H1N1 pandemic spreading around the world. While researching my family tree I came across an article about Scourges of the 19th Century. In 1869 a family immigrated from Ireland … Continue reading →

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Overdraft fees = cash cows for banks

Posted on September 21, 2009 by Featheriver

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy I often recommend people go hug their bankers. (with tongue in cheek, of course). But maybe your banker should come and hug you. Why? Because some of us … Continue reading →

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Obama to post White House Visitor Records online

Posted on September 4, 2009 by Featheriver

Yesterday, the Obama administration and Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) settled four ongoing cases regarding public access to White House visitor records.  The most significant development is the commitment by the Obama administration to affirmatively post visitor … Continue reading →

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Government for the Corporation and by the Corporation

Posted on September 1, 2009 by Featheriver

I’ve been listening to Bill Moyers and Bill Maher. They were talking about government. Moyers said (and I paraphrase): Both the Republican and Democratic party’s have become so entrapped by the flood of money from corporations and Wall Street that … Continue reading →

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Proposal of the Physicians’ Working Group for Single-Payer National Health Insurance

Posted on August 27, 2009 by Featheriver

Back in 2003 the Physicians for a National Health Care Program (PNHP) the following summary and conclusion in their article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). The United States spends more than twice as much on health … Continue reading →

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Interview of Mr. Paul Reeves – Candidate for Congress, Nevada District 2

Posted on July 30, 2009 by Featheriver

Interview of Paul Reeves

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