By Lauren von Bernuth on Sep 26, 2019 09:27 am
 Trump’s impeachment worries continue to unfold as a whistleblower complaint is made public and Trump reveals Vice President Mike Pence also had phone calls with Ukraine. On Thursday morning a whistleblower complaint which claims President Trump pressured Ukranian officials to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden was released to the […]
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By Justine Lopez on Sep 26, 2019 09:00 am
 The results are in. All age demographics use CBD in some fashion! It may have taken almost a century to lift the prohibition on hemp, but it’s taken only a couple of years for the world to fall in love with cannabidiol (CBD). It hasn’t even been one full year since the non-psychoactive member of […]
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By Will Bacha on Sep 26, 2019 07:00 am
 “We fear that he [Barry Lee Myers] wants to turn the weather service into a taxpayer-funded subsidiary of AccuWeather.” Easy access to weather forecasts is a given for most Americans. The national weather service, a government agency, provides this information free of charge on a variety of platforms, via the internet, radio and other broadcasting […]
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By Phillip Smith on Sep 26, 2019 05:00 am
 “Our current drug laws distort the priorities of police, who end up spending too much time arresting people for being addicted to drugs instead of focusing on community safety.” The groundwork is being laid now for a possible effort to decriminalize the possession of drugs in Oregon. Last month, a trio of drug reform advocates […]
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By Guest Post on Sep 25, 2019 02:30 pm
 As prescription drug costs soar, Congress is pressing for bills that would cap out-of-pocket expenses for Medicare beneficiaries and allow the government a say in drug pricing. Worried to lose the pricing power, the pharmaceutical industry is pushing back with millions of dollars of spending. (By Yue Stella Yu, Center for Responsive Politics) As millions […]
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By Lauren von Bernuth on Sep 25, 2019 01:33 pm
 “When the financial system shifts its capital away from resource-hungry, brown investments to those that back nature as solution, everybody wins in the long-term.” On the eve of the United Nations climate summit in New York in Monday, a major segment of the global banking industry pledged to adopt U.N. “responsible banking” principles in an […]
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By Jack Xiong on Sep 25, 2019 09:00 am
 Roy Cohn was “a master manipulator that taught politicians, demagogues, and bad guys how to behave—and that means misbehave.” A new documentary explores the life and career of “evil” lawyer and political power broker Roy Cohn, best known for being Senator Joseph McCarthy’s chief counsel, the lawyer of then-real estate tycoon Donald Trump, and being […]
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By Will Bacha on Sep 25, 2019 07:00 am
 In the age of standardized tests and common core state standards, today’s teachers must stick strictly to teaching the curriculum, which outside forces sometimes determine. Local school boards and administrators normally design school curriculums, but lately there has been a nationwide trend toward adopting the curriculums endorsed by state and national government agencies. On the […]
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By Michael Green on Sep 25, 2019 05:00 am
 PFAS are “forever chemicals”: They take thousands of years to break down—and can remain in our bodies for decades. A handful of multibillion-dollar chemical companies have waged war on our bodies and our environment for nearly 70 years without our knowledge or consent. Although the federal government—tasked with protecting the public and upholding the law—became […]
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By Lauren von Bernuth on Sep 24, 2019 02:31 pm
 On Tuesday, the House of Representatives launched a formal impeachment inquiry into President Trump. As earlier reports predicted, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the launching of a formal impeachment investigation into President Donald Trump related to a whistleblower complaint regarding Trump’s dealings with Ukraine. The Trump impeachment proceedings largely come in response to revelations from […]
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By Lauren von Bernuth on Sep 24, 2019 01:21 pm
 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Trump impeachment hearings over his administration’s refusal to release a whistleblower complaint about Trump’s dealings with Ukraine. Following a tumultuous few days, Democratic leader and House speaker Nancy Pelosi was expected to announce on Tuesday that the House will launch a formal impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, according to […]
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