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The First Cuts Are the Deepest: Sequester Cuts Increase Health, Climate Risks	16.5.2013	Think Progres
The First Cuts Are the Deepest: Sequester Cuts Increase Health, Climate Risks
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Business Leaders To Policymakers: Public Lands Create A Competitive Advantage For Us	16.5.2013	Think Progres
Business Leaders To Policymakers: Public Lands Create A Competitive Advantage For Us
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Need fed programs	16.5.2013	Salt Lake Tribune
Published May 16, 2013 01:01AM MDT In “Just take it all” (Forum, May 9), David Barnes sees the proposal to have online retailers charge the same sales tax that local merchants do as just another government attempt to add yet another tax. He fears socialism is taking over. What’s he moaning about? Americans are getting value for what they’re paying for, and it’s for something they want. The two biggest federal programs are Social Security and Medicare, and so far they’re covered by their own payroll taxes, not income tax. Does Bar... ...
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Ruth LePlatt (Cached)	15.5.2013	Durango Herald
Former Durango resident Ruth LePlatt died Friday, May 10, 2013, in Farmington. She was 79.Mrs. LePlatt was born to Ted F. and Amanda Sooter on March 9, 1934, in Golden. The Sooter family later moved to Durango from Monte Vista shortly after her graduation from Monte Vista High School.In Durango, she attended Fort Lewis College...
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Sequestration Causes 70,000 Kids To Be Kicked Off Head Start, But Big Oil Complains About Small, Delayed Lease Sales	14.5.2013	Think Progres
Sequestration Causes 70,000 Kids To Be Kicked Off Head Start, But Big Oil Complains About Small, Delayed Lease Sales
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Green diary rescue: Wading out of the abstract into the practicalities of sustainability	12.5.2013	Daily Kos
Every week Daily Kos diarists write dozens of environmentally related posts. Many don't get the readership they deserve. Helping improve the odds is the motivation behind the Green Diary Rescue. In the past seven years, there have been 225 of these spotlighting more than 12,630 eco-diaries. Below are categorized links and excerpts to 72 more that appeared in the past seven days. That makes for lots of good reading during the spare moments of your weekend. [ Disclaimer: Inclusion of a diary in the rescue does not necessarily indicate my agreement with or endorsement of it.] Sustainability: The Challenge of Change —by phoenixvoice : "I don’t know of any non-lethal ways to handle wasps’ nests—but I figure that wasps are probably good pollinators. I needed a quick solution, so that the guys could get on with the work I was paying them to do. They had dealt with this problem in the past, and wasp spray was how they would handle it. So we got the wasp spray. My friend recognized the can ...
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Coburn's claim that national park crime has dropped 85% because of guns is a bunch of hooey	10.5.2013	NewsTrust Yahoo Pipes Feed
What are a few dozen bogus percentage points when I'm trying to get important gun legislation passed? During the debate on his proposal, Coburn said the end of ban on guns in national parks had reduced crime. But on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" Thursday, he was much more specific : “Remember, in 2010, everybody said you can’t dare let guns go into the national parks. And of course the rapes, murders, robberies and assaults are down about 85 percent since we did that.” John Hart, communications director for Coburn, said the senator "misspoke." Comparing the crime rate for 2011, the last year for which data is available with 2008 yields a “percentage decline [that] is closer to 12 percent,” Hart said. But that, too, is cherry-picking. And don't you just love the time-honored "misspoke"? As if Coburn's claim was a slip of the tongue instead of a fork. Even the revised percentage is bogus, however. As Kessler points out, a comparison of 2011 statistics with the five-year average before 2011 ...
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Coburn’s claim that violence in national parks has declined ‘85 percent’ because of guns	10.5.2013	Washington Post: Politics
“Remember, in 2010, everybody said you can’t dare let guns go into the national parks. And of course the rapes, murders, robberies and assaults are down about 85 percent since we did that.” — Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), speaking on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe ,” May 9, 2013 Read full article ...
Senate rejects firearms on more federal lands	8.5.2013	AP Politics
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate has rejected an effort to expand the use of firearms on the heavily visited lands of the Army Corps of Engineers in a congressional victory for gun control supporters....
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Congress Holds Hearing On Tourism’s Economic Benefits While Sequestration Forces National Parks To Shutter Services	8.5.2013	Think Progres
Congress Holds Hearing On Tourism’s Economic Benefits While Sequestration Forces National Parks To Shutter Services
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Senate rejects firearms on Army Corps of Engineers lands in win for gun control supporters	8.5.2013	Star Tribune: Politics

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Interior secretary: Cuts hurting mission of national parks	8.5.2013	Salt Lake Tribune
by Thomas Burr The Salt Lake Tribune Published May 7, 2013 04:45PM MDT Washington • Interior Secretary Sally Jewell told a Senate committee on Tuesday that the automatic spending cuts now hitting her budget are distracting the department from carrying out its mission. “I know it’s not where you want us to go; it’s not where we want to go,” Jewell told the Senate Appropriations subcommittee overseeing her spending blueprints. “It’s very, very difficult,” Jewell continued. “It’s hard on employees who are hard working, to all the things that you care about as well. T... ...
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Japan's Mount Fuji poised to get World Heritage status	2.5.2013	San Jose Mercury News: Breaking News
Japan's iconic Mount Fuji looks likely to win recognition as a World Heritage site. It would be the country's 13th such cultural site.
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Japan's Mt. Fuji poised to get World Heritage status	1.5.2013	Star Tribune: World

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Green diary rescue: Keystone XL public comments exceed one million goal	28.4.2013	Daily Kos
Every week Daily Kos diarists write dozens of environmentally related posts. Many don't get the readership they deserve. Helping improve the odds is the motivation behind the Green Diary Rescue. In the past seven years, there have been 223 of these spotlighting more than 12,475 eco-diaries. Below are categorized links and excerpts to 88 more that appeared in the past seven days. That makes for lots of good reading during the spare moments of your weekend. [ Disclaimer: Inclusion of a diary in the rescue does not necessarily indicate my agreement with or endorsement of it.] This week's selection is a gorgeous photo diary from Haole in Hawaii. If you've been around here for any length of time, you're probably familiar with his fine work. And even if you're new, you've seen some of his photos, because all those in the Green Dairy Rescue banners are all his. Glad to see him back. An Earth Day Photo Diary —by Haole in Hawaii . Day's end on Oahu Coming for lunch Java ...
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House passes bill allowing FAA to cancel air traffic controller furloughs	26.4.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
Republicans hail victory over Democrats but White House spokesman suggests Congress should help the needy The House of Representatives passed on Friday a draft bill to ease the disruption to air travel across the country that has been created by the sequester budget cuts. The House vote was quick, with members anxious to head home for the start of a week-long recess. It followed a late-night vote in favour by the Senate, on Thursday . The bill will now go to President Barack Obama, to be signed into law. The deal, which followed a cave-in by Democrats in Congress in the face of public pressure, opens the way for other interest groups, such as the national parks department or the Pentagon, to also seek special treatment. The concession to the air industry is only the second made by Congress since an estimated $87bn in sequester budget cuts kicked in on 1 March. The other was to fund food inspectors, amid fears of a health scare. Republicans hailed the vote on air traffic control as a ...
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Exposing a judge	26.4.2013	Salt Lake Tribune
Published Apr 26, 2013 01:01AM MDT Re “Eco-activist says guilty verdict was a symbol of flawed system” (Tribune, April 24): Tim DeChristopher disrupted a federal auction of questionable oil and gas leases to help protect the environment and our national parks, but he ended up making a bigger statement about our unfair justice system, especially in the case of eccentric U.S. District Judge Dee Benson, who sentenced DeChristopher more for his attitude than his acts. I doubt DeChristopher can change the system, but by continuing to ... ...
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New Report Details How National Parks Are Threatened By Oil And Gas Drilling	26.4.2013	Think Progres
New Report Details How National Parks Are Threatened By Oil And Gas Drilling
South African pilot who flew over stadium during final of 1995 Rugby World Cup dies	25.4.2013	Star Tribune: World

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South African aviator dies	25.4.2013	Boston Globe: Latest
South African aviator dies
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