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Jill U. Adams, Special to LA Times: Posted on Thursday, February 02, 2012 3:11 PM
The Obama administration recently pulled the plug on lowering EPA limits. Itseems clear, though, that the lower the level, the fewer effects on health.
To understand the latest brouhaha about safe levels of ozone, it helps to understand the difference between science and policy.
First the back story. In 2008, the administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Stephen Johnson, reduced the allowable level of ozone in the air from 84 parts per billion to 75 ppb. Johnson said the change would lead to cleaner air and improve public health. |
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Posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2012 1:32 PM
House
Democrats will hold a public hearing on Thursday to promote economic
security, highlighting their legislative plans to create good jobs and a
strong economy, promote rural recovery and help small businesses. “The development of good jobs and strong
family incomes in Georgia is a primary obligation of this state,” said
Representative Virgil Fludd. “While Georgia’s families are facing
stagnant growth in their wages and a slow economy, our package of
legislation will jump-start Georgia’s economy by hiring Georgia workers,
demanding the purchase of Georgia-made products and requiring prompt
payment on all state contracts. |
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Posted on Thursday, January 26, 2012 10:03 PM
‘Localism’ is the Old TV Fairness Doctrine with a New Name, He
SaysThe man who served as NBC-TV’s legal counsel for 25 years
warns the FCC is poised to resurrect broad censorship rules that were revoked in
1987 because of their chilling effect on both free speech and the television
press.
Corydon B. Dunham says the proposed new
Localism, Balance and Diversity Doctrine could eventually also affect news on
the Internet. The FCC is reportedly planning to transfer the broadcast spectrum
used by local television to the Internet to make it the nation’s primary
communications platform,and the agency has started to regulate the
Internet. |
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Jack Abramoff: Posted on Monday, January 23, 2012 3:17 PM
When most Americans think of bribery, they think of some oleaginous
lobbyist handing over a brown paper bag stuffed with $100 bills, buying
the vote of some venal politician. They think of Lyndon Johnson with
envelopes full of cash. They think of William Jefferson's freezer
deposit box. Yes, all of these images are accurate and classic examples
of bribery, but while they tend to titillate and amaze us, they also
distort the true picture of bribery in our politics.Handing over cash - in bags, envelopes or freezers - is rare in
21st century America. |
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Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2012 3:48 PM
“When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one
people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with
another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and
equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle
them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they
should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.” –The Declaration of Independence
When the words of the Declaration of Independence were written in 1776,
the Founders were doing more than just revolting against unfair
treatment by the English, excessive taxation and the denial of their
religious liberty. |
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Laura Turner Seydel: Posted on Tuesday, January 17, 2012 11:56 PM
According to the United States Census Bureau, each day 361,481 babies are born around the world. This past fall, one of those 361,481 babies bumped the world's population to 7 billion.
When I was born 50 years ago the world's population was 2 billion. At the time, my dad, Ted Turner, was shocked that in his 30 years of life the population had grown by 1 billion. A half-century later the disbelief continues with the addition of 5 billion people.
According to David Bloom, an economist at Harvard University, the world's population grows by 80 million each year. |
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Negin Farsad : Posted on Tuesday, January 10, 2012 11:41 AM
If
you're looking for funny video content about doing away with Citizens
United - and let's not pretend you haven't looked - well your search is
over!
Negin
Farsad and the Vaguely Qualified Productions team is trying to put some
comedy heft into the fight with a video starring Katrina vanden Heuvel
(Editor/Publisher ofThe Nation), Cenk Uygur (Host, Current
TV's Young Turks), Ben & Jerry from Ben & Jerry's, Laura
Flanders (Host/Author), and the esteemed Jim Hightower! |
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Posted on Tuesday, January 10, 2012 11:30 AM
Remember Joe the Plumber? We met him four years ago when he
asked then-candidate Barack Obama about taxing small businesses.
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Matthew Cardinale, News Editor, The Atlanta Progressive News: Posted on Thursday, December 22, 2011 5:18 PM
A number of high-profile campaign
contributors to Mayor Kasim Reed have
received airport contracts, raising
concerns about possible pay-to-play,
even while Reed's Administration guards
all aspects of the bidding process with
great secrecy.
At
stake is who will benefit from tens of
millions of dollars in revenue from
one of the nation's busiest airports. |
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Posted on Monday, December 12, 2011 11:42 PM
Secret Service
Pioneer Sees The Beginnings Of
A Bigotry
BacklashIn Alabama, fields of tomatoes are ripening – with almost no
workers to pick them.
In that state’s classrooms, teachers face rows of
empty desks. Many of their students suddenly disappeared, having fled with their
families.
After the U.S. Supreme Court upheld much of Alabama’s tough new
law governing undocumented immigrants on Sept. 28, many workers – mostly
Mexicans – quickly packed up and left in fear. Some of them, according to
press reports, gave up their homes and jobs even though they were working here
legally. |
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