This week in the War on Women: You're for equality or you're not. Period.

Source: Daily Kos

This week, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced that he will once again try to bring the Paycheck Fairness Act up for a vote that Republicans unanimously blocked in 2010: Now they have an opportunity to back up their excuses with action. I ...
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Salina-based planes aid in study of thunderstorms, ozone

Source: Kansas.com

Researchers have begun a massive study of thunderstorms and lightning in the Great Plains and Deep South to determine how much thunderstorms contribute to greenhouse gases. The 45-day effort – called the Deep Convective Clouds and Chemistry proje ...
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NBA playoffs: Spurs and Thunder ready for West finals

Source: The Province Daily News

Environment Canada says two tornadoes struck communities near Montreal, causing heavy property damage. When Willie Mitchell heads up to the West Coast Fishing Club for the Fishing for Kids charity derby in the Queen Charlotte Islands at the end of th ...
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Hot Dish Politics: New panel led by Hackbarth pretty quiet

Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune

Fresh off the victory that gave Republicans the House majority in 2010, veteran Rep. Tom Hackbarth was named chairman of an influential House committee dealing with environment, energy and national resource ...
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Boulder eyes changes to commercial use permits on open space

Source: Daily Camera

An evaluation of the commercial use permits that govern activities like guided hikes and climbs and commercial photography on Boulder open space recommends a number of changes to the program that would ease restrictions and make compliance easi ...
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King of the Badgers, By Philip Hensher [sic], By Joshua Cody By Nightfall, By Michael Cunningham Made in Britain: Why Our Economy is More Successful Than You Think, By Evan Davis Foreign Bodies, By Cynthia Ozick

Source: The Independent

King of the Badgers, By Philip Hensher Fourth Estate, £8.99 **** The England that Hensher presents in this deftly drawn novel is the kind of England that both progressives and reactionaries will resist. Reactionaries will loath ...
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Center of gravity in oil world shifts to Americas

Source: EcoEarth News

LOMA LA LATA, Argentina — In a desertlike stretch of scrub grass and red buttes, oil companies are punching holes in the ground in search of what might be one of the biggest recent discoveries in the Americas: enough gas an ...
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Liberal Cannibalism: SEC Targets Progressive-Friendly Chipotle

Source: Big Government

By all standards Steve Ells, CEO and founder of Chipotle Mexican Grill, is a model liberal . He believes in sustainable agriculture, has a restaurant that is vegetarian friendly, and calls Earth “The Planet.” He also believes in charity. Chipotle has a ...
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Crippled nuke plant safety concerns

Source: Big Pond News

Japan's environment and nuclear minister has visited the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant to inspect a spent fuel pool at the centre of safety concerns and says it appears to have been properly reinforced. The Saturday visit by ...
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