Colorado Springs Considers Major Reform Proposals To Mitigate Conflicts Of Interest In Utilities Management

By: Aaron Gardner (Diary)  |  January 22nd at 01:00 PM  | 

The Colorado Springs, Colorado City Council will consider three new ordinances today which concern the establishment of an independently elected utilities board, an independently elected City Attorney, and the removal of utilities contract authority from the Mayor. The ballot proposals, which are expected to receive a vote today, are a response to the debate over the Martin Drake power plant which provides 254 megawatts of | Read More »

Tech at Night: More Copyright, and the Wyden-Issa OPEN act gains attention

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  January 25th at 11:30 PM  | 

Some are still worried about the Megaupload takedown (including many the

Nancy Pelosi retreating from insinuations of new dirt on Newt Gingrich.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  December 5th at 09:00 PM  | 

For those who missed it: Last Friday Nancy Pelosi told Talking Points Memo that she had all sorts of investigative dirt available on current GOP frontrunner Newt Gingrich.  Specifically, “I know a lot about him. I served on the investigative committee that investigated him, four of us locked in a room in an undisclosed location for a year. A thousand pages of his stuff.” So… | Read More »

The Cost of Political Pseudo-Science Shown In Two Examples.

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  June 6th at 03:00 PM  | 

Surely it’s time for climate-change deniers to have their opinions forcibly tattooed on their bodies. – Richard Glover (HT:National Times.Com) Richard Glover and Dr. Donald Brown are two very different men, in different nations, who work towards a common goal. Each man believes that human pollution has driven a series of chemical and physical changes in the Earth’s atmosphere. Each man believes this will damage | Read More »

Aborting Imperfection

By: Melissa Clouthier (Diary)  |  May 19th at 02:36 PM  | 

Modern technology brings diagnoses earlier–even in the womb. In the U.S., that means that 90% of children with Down’s Syndrom are aborted thanks to amniocentesis. In this UK example, a child diagnosed via ultrasound with Spina Bifida was aborted [WARNING: this is very disturbing]. His mother’s experience is what follows: Yet if making that choice was hard, the physical ordeal was only just beginning. At | Read More »

Report: Hinchey Assaults Reporter

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  October 16th at 07:53 AM  | 

Congressman Maurice Hinchey is clearly stressed by polls showing his re-election campaign in serious trouble. How else to interpret his unhinged reaction when a reporter asked him about earmarks he secured which seem to have enriched him personally, Hinchey reportedly came unglued: After the shooters turned off their cameras and started to break down, Hinchey made a beeline for Kemble and got in his face, | Read More »

Charlie Rangel will not resign…

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  July 27th at 08:00 PM  | 

…and will ride this puppy all the way down, bless his heart. For those living in a cave, Charlie Rangel* (D, NY) is about to get served with ethics charges by the House Ethics committee for committing ethical violations (mostly involving real estate) beyond the power of the House Ethics committee leadership to plausibly overlook… not that they didn’t try their best.  In keeping with | Read More »

Breaking: Rangel to be charged with new ethics violations

By: James Richardson (Diary)  |  July 22nd at 05:51 PM  | 

A House ethics committee has launched an investigation into New York Democratic Rep. Charlie Rangel for undisclosed ethics violations, the Associated Press reported Thursday. Rangel, who resigned from his chairmanship of the House Ways and Means Committee in March following a formal admonishment for two corporately-underwritten Caribbean junkets, will appear next week before a subcommittee of the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct. Composed | Read More »

What Kind of MMS Did Obama Inherit?

By: Steve Maley (Diary)  |  June 7th at 05:33 AM  | 

President Obama and Interior Secretary Salazar have done their best to shift the blame of the Deepwater Horizon disaster to the Bush Administration and the supposed ‘cozy relationship’ it fostered between the Minerals Management Service and the oil and gas companies it regulates. The public consciousness perceives a corrupt and incompetent agency, turning a blind eye to the shenanigans of their industry buddies. In reality: | Read More »