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Many say the 2008 election is being stolen right now. If two stolen elections are two too many, are you prepared to accept a third?
A state regulation proposed by the Natural Resources Board to reduce mercury emissions will go into effect after a key legislative committee failed to block the rule.
The Assembly Natural Resources Committee had opposed the regulation, but the Joint Committee for Review of Administrative Rules did not uphold that objection within a required 30-day period. The official end of that time is 5 p.m. Monday, but the committee chairman has not called a meeting, which requires a 24-hour advance notice.
Duplin County, N.C. stinks. And no wonder. Its human population is just under 50,000 people, but it is also home to 2.2 million [PDF] of North Carolina's 10 million hogs [PDF].
We have at the present time two government leaders, a president and a vice president, who, according to all available evidence, have carried out grave crimes. Will these two men leave office and live out their lives without being subjected to legal proceedings? Such proceedings will surely release new documents and provide additional testimony important in resolving their guilt or innocence. But the public record is now so elaborate, so detailed, and validated from so many directions that a weight is on the population’s shoulders: does our
When the developers of Bay Harbor Resort received the go-ahead to build a resort for the rich on top of an ancient mess of cement kiln dust, the DNR was in a "conundrum." The cement kiln dust had tested as inert, meaning that run-off water didn't pick up known toxins from the cement kiln dust, said Bob Wagner, the DEQ supervisor for the ongoing clean-up at Bay Harbor Resort. Yet, there were significant red flags. Arsenic-laden water was seeping from two of the piles (cited in a DNR memo of 12/14/94) and samples of cement kiln dust contained elevated levels of heavy metals.
Supervisors ignored safety concerns raised by inmates at McNeil Island state prison and made them remove potentially deadly asbestos-laden tile with no protective equipment and without taking common precautions, state records say. As a result, at least 18 people - eight offenders, eight Department of Corrections employees who were working nearby and a flooring contractor's crew - were exposed to cancer-causing particles, according to a state Department of Labor and Industries case file.
In whatever years remain to him - and the health prognoses for McCain are cloudy at best - McCain should look back at the 48 hours up to and including Friday night's debate in Mississippi as the Rubicon he was too frightened to cross. He spurned a huge chance to turn the tables on his all-too-decorous opponent.
