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Upset of upsets: Miller leads Murkowski
The Swampby Mike Memoli Sarah Palin's biggest political victory this year could come in her home state, where her endorsed candidate for Senate holds a surprising lead over incumbent Lisa Murkowski in the Alaska Republican Senate primary. With all but nine......Tags: Regional Elections, Facebook, Mike Huckabee, Nevada, Lisa Murkowski
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Sarah Palin sought, got federal pork
The Swampby Frank James Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin apparently likes a good earmark as much as most other politicians. The watchdog group Taxpayers for Common Sense found that when Palin was mayor of little old Wasilla, Alaska she hired a well-connected......Tags: Government, Washington Post Co., Legal Services, Environmental Issues, Common
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Sarah Palin answers questions: Four
The Swampby Mark Silva Newsbreak: Sarah Palin answered questions today. On this "suspended'' day of John McCain's presidential campaign, running mate Sarah Palin took a 20-minute tour of the "Tribute WTC 9/11" museum in New York, took in a firefighters memorial,.....Tags: Government, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Fires, Republican Party, Terrorism
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Bailout (of rum, arrows, race tracks)
The Swampby Frank James What do rum, motorsport race tracks and wooden arrows used by kids all have in common? The financial markets bailout bill, that's what. Taxpayers for Common Sense has compiled a handy list of what it called the......Tags: Ron Wyden, Schools, Renewable Energy, Common, Diane Watson
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Republicans learning to love the stimulus
The Swampby Mark Silva Even in defeat, it seems, there is victory. Even that $787-billion economic stimulus that all the House's Republicans opposed has its rosy side. "The timing couldn't be better,'' one Florida Republican crows about a high-speed rail project.....Tags: Government, Investments, Greg Walden, Republican Party, Public Relations
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Sarah Palin: Polarizing, prevaricating?
The Swampby Mark Silva We've been hearing a lot about Sarah Palin lately. It's not, however, what the governor of Alaska, erstwhile Republican candidate for vice president and oft-mentioned prospect for her party's future leaders, wants us to hear: It has......Tags: Bristol Palin, Lisa Murkowski, Republican Party, Energy Resources, Indiana
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Republicans rediscover tolerance
WASHINGTON -- As lawmakers put the finishing touches on an immigration deal, veteran Rep. Don Young decided this would be a good time to come out with an immigration plan of his own. His involves calling Latino immigrants "wetbacks." For Young, now in...
Tags: Eric Cantor, Immigration, Republican Party, John McCain, Steve King
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Inupiat whaling, drilling at stake in recent Alaskan mayor’s race
GreenspaceIndependent photojournalists Will Rose and Kajsa Sjölander were on Alaska’s North Slope in November to document traditional whaling by the native Inupiat people, and found themselves at the height of a highly charged mayoral election season, with... -
Doug Brinkley, Rep. Don Young squabble over Arctic refuge
GreenspaceFamed biographer Doug Brinkley and Alaskan Rep. Don Young clashed bitterly last Friday as Brinkley, a professor at Rice University and the author most recently of “The Quiet World: Saving Alaska’s Wilderness Kingdom 1979-1960,” testified... -
CO2 sensitivity possibly less than most extreme projections
GreenspaceA new study in the journal Science suggests that the global climate may be less sensitive to CO2 fluctuations than predicted by the most extreme projections, and maybe slightly less than the best estimates of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.... -
Year in Review: Congress' 10 biggest enemies of the Earth
Opinion L.A.Republicans launched an unprecedented frontal assault against environmental protections and regulations this year, prompting Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) to call his chamber "the most anti-environment House in history." Here are the 10 most powerful and... -
Battle over Pebble Mine shifts to EPA
GreenspaceTribal leaders who are battling plans for Pebble Mine, a $300-billion copper, molybdemum and gold deposit at the headwaters of Bristol Bay--home of the world's biggest sockeye salmon runs--are appealing now to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency...
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