by Anne Meador UPDATE below A secret non-disclosure agreement between Calvert County, MD officials and Dominion Cove Point LNG may have concealed financial projections crucial to calculating the full benefit Dominion will receive from property tax breaks passed by the Board of County Commissioners last November. A public information request […]
Monthly Archives: January 2014
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By Anne Meador About twenty protestors with a large yellow banner that said “Democracy Not Corporatocracy” waited in the dark to greet President Obama as he arrived at the U.S. Capitol last night to deliver his State of the Union address. They shivered in the 10-degree wind chill. “We are out […]
Environmentalists carried an inflated faux pipeline around the U.S. Capitol grounds on January 28, calling on President Obama to reject the proposed cross-border section of the Keystone XL pipeline. In frigid eighteen-degree weather, activists paraded the giant tube which said, “Pipeline President or Climate Champion?” ahead of the President’s State […]
The Maryland Light Brigade joined the National Religious Campaign Against Torture in front of the Capitol on January 27, the eve of President Obama’s State of the Union Address. The interfaith vigil marked five years since the President signed an executive order directing the closure of Guantanamo Bay Prison. Seventy-seven […]
Three people were killed and four injured at a shopping mall in Columbia, MD when a shooter opened fire Saturday morning. The shooter was among the fatalities. Rob Brune interviews Columbia Mall employee Patti Lareau, who works at the kiosk directly across from the Zumiez skate shop where the shooting […]
Civil liberties activists were outside the Department of Justice on January 17, 2014 while President Obama addressed the nation about NSA surveillance reforms.
By Anne Meador The Senate Finance Committee held a hearing on January 16 on a bill that would renew Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) for the President, allowing trade treaties to be “fast tracked” through Congress. The measure was introduced by Finance Committee Chair Max Baucus (D-MT) last week, just as […]
By Wade Fulmer On the first day of the 2014 legislative session, South Carolinians arrived in Columbia with energy and determination to hold the first “Enough Is Enough, Truthful Tuesday” rally at the State House. More than 600 citizens and community and group leaders, joined by a few legislators, made […]
People wonder if we’re afraid we might die from these drones circling over our heads, but you know what, I am not afraid of death anymore. I’ve become familiar with it. Drones in our skies or government clashes are as common as rain or sunshine. Death becomes a daily fact. […]
By Keith Wrightson Last week, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) heard testimony on modernizing and improving the tracking of workplace injuries and illnesses. These hearings were convened because OSHA has proposed a rule change that will directly benefit workers in “high hazard” industries, where workers suffer the most […]
by Anne Meador Several dozen protestors braved pouring rain to mark the twelfth anniversary of the opening of Guantánamo Prison. In front of the White House, they called on President Obama to use his executive powers to close the prison now. They then marched to the National Museum of American […]
The need to comply with the mandates and whims emanating from Washington, DC is decimating local education throughout the U.S. The obvious profit-driven shift from independent control to the test/curriculum-based No Child Left Behind (and now Common Core) serves private corporations at the expense of students. Now a significant percentage […]