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From Seat of Power, Jimmy Carter Battled Many Crises Karl Rove Returns With Team, Planning G.O.P. Offensive When Karl "Turd Blossom" Rove left the White House in 2007, Democrats rejoiced at what they believed would be the end of his political career and the brand of Republicanism he espoused. This election season may show he is back, if the Democrats don't do something to put him away for good. Rove is playing a leading role in building what amounts to a shadow Republican Party, a network of donors and operatives that is among the most aggressive in the Republican effort to capture control of the House and the Senate. National Tea Party Convention Canceled Due To Lagging Ticket Sales Experts Question BP's Take on Gulf Oil Spill Engineering experts probing the Gulf of Mexico oil spill exposed holes in BP's internal investigation as the company was questioned Sunday for the first time in public about its findings. BP's lead investigator acknowledged that the company's probe had limitations. Mark Bly, head of safety and operations for BP, told a National Academy of Engineering committee that a lack of physical evidence and interviews with employees from other companies limited BP's study. The internal team only looked at the immediate cause of the April disaster, which killed 11 workers and unleashed 206 million gallons of oil into the Gulf. Five Myths About Facebook California Ballot Demonstrates State's Conflicted Link to Pot California has a long history of defying conventional wisdom on the issue of marijuana, including its embrace of the drug in the 1960s and its landmark medical pot law 14 years ago. So it may not be all that surprising that a November ballot measure to legalize the drug has created some odd alliances and scenarios. Pot growers oppose it. Some police favore it. Polls show the public is divided. Only politicians have lined up as expected: Nearly all major party candidates oppose the measure. And hanging over the whole debate is the fact that marijuana remains illegal under federal law. As the Nov. 2 election nears, Proposition 19 has become about much more than the pros and cons of the drug itself. |
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Featured Original Stories, Photo Essays and Videos  Robin Young, Like Thousands on the Gulf, Suffered 'BP Crud' Wherever disaster strikes, there's always an associated crud. There was the Exxon Valdez Crud. The Nine Eleven Crud. The Katrina Cough, and then the TVA coal ash cough. Now, along the entire coast of the Gulf of Mexico, there is the BP Crud, afflicting workers and the general population from Louisiana to Florida. Who Should the People of the Gulf Coast Trust for Payback? Individuals and businesses, on the other hand, must either file their claims with Feinberg and the government fund and hope to get paid soon, or opt out and go with a private lawyer and sue in a state district court, potentially waiting many years to receive any compensation. It took 20 years for the people of Alaska to get paid a fraction of their losses in the case against Exxon for the Valdez spill in Prince William Sound. The Big Picture: The Five Stages of Grief on the Gulf The Kubler-Ross model, commonly known as the five stages of grief, was first introduced by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross in her 1969 book, On Death and Dying. Perhaps with a tad of literary license, we might apply that to how people are feeling on the Gulf Coast and those inland also suffering the tragedy in person, on television or Facebook. Air Quality Along the Coast Raises Questions As the multi-national British Petroleum corporation continues to test what's left of the Deepwater Horizon oil well 50 miles offshore in the Gulf of Mexico to see if the latest well cap will hold back the gusher and not blow out the sea floor, residents along the coast are still concerned about the quality of the air they are breathing in addition to the polluted water. A Photo Essay From the Summer of Discontent Watchdogging BP Video: Oil Giant Restricts Press Access to Alabama Beach Where Oh Where Have All the Wildlife Gone? Under the Oil Pollution Act, passed in 1990 in the wake of the Valdez spill, a Natural Resource Damage Assessment was established by law to determine the type and amount of restoration needed to compensate the public for harm to natural resources, along with their human uses, that occur as a result of an oil spill. While it is still too early in the process to know what the scope of the assessment will be, from past experience, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is concerned about impacts to fish, shellfish, marine mammals, turtles, birds and other sensitive resources as well as their habitats, including wetlands, beaches, mudflats, bottom sediments, coral reefs -- and the water column itself.
Video: Gulf Restoration Tour Around Barataria Bay BP is Hiring Convict Labor in Beach Cleanup The British Petroleum corporation is hiring illegal immigrant convict labor to clean the beaches along the Gulf Coast instead of contracting with local fishermen who are out of work due to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico as they promised publicly. In trying to use public relations to cover up the massive mess it's causing, BP officials are saying the company has hired unemployed workers to help with the beach cleanup effort here. Video: BP Hires Convict Labor in Beach Cleanup Gulf Communities Gear Up for Economic Impacts of Oil Spill BP's Oil Spill Will Have Major Environmental Impacts on the Gulf of Mexico
Interior Department Permitted Deep Horizon Without Impact Study Ken Salazar, a former Senator and Attorney General of Colorado, was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the 50th Secretary of the Interior on Jan. 20, 2009 by President Barack Obama. Less than three months later, on April 6, 2009, the British Petroleum company was granted a permit for the Deepwater Horizon, the deepest oil well ever dug in the Gulf of Mexico -- without an Environmental Impact Study as required by the National Environmental Policy Act. The Minerals Management Service, an agency of the Department of the Interior charged with regulating the oil and gas industry, has been ensconced in a ethics scandal in recent months for cozying up to the oil and gas industry. Allegations include financial self-dealing, accepting gifts from energy companies, cocaine use and sexual misconduct. The agency granted BP a "categorical exclusion" to NEPA on the basis of three reviews of the area, which concluded that a massive oil spill was "unlikely," according to government documents. Gulf Oil Slick One: A Glynn Wilson Video Interior Secretary Tours Wildlife Refuge | Photo Essay Political Justice Archives Siegelman-Scrushy Archives For the final two years of the Bush administration, we covered the politicization of the U.S. justice system as much as any news organization anywhere. For scholars and others interested in researching the prosecution of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman, check out this archive and this archive. It goes even further back to the original Scrushy trial in Birmingham, which Editor and Publisher Glynn Wilson covered for The New York Times. |
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