Associated Press More than 3 million acres in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest would be open to logging under a federal plan that supporters believe will revive the state’s struggling timber industry. Environmentalists, however, fear that the proposal will devastate the forest. The Bush administration released Friday a management plan for the forest, the largest in…
Associated Press The federal agency that regulates the nation’s mining industry says that it has failed to issue penalties for hundreds of citations issued since 2000 and that the problem could extend back beyond 1995. Matthew Faraci, a spokesman for the agency, the Mine Safety and Health Administration, said Sunday, “We would guess it goes…
By Dahr Jamail, Tom Dispatch This March 19 will be the fifth anniversary of the shock-and-awe air assault on Baghdad that signaled the opening of the invasion of Iraq, and when it comes to the American occupation of that country, no end is yet in sight. If Republican presidential candidate John McCain has anything to…
The Philadelphia Inqurer Elizabeth Holtzman served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1973 to 1981 Since mid-December, members of the House Judiciary Committee Robert Wexler (D., Fla.), Luis Gutierrez (D., Ill.) and Tammy Baldwin (D., Wis.) have called for hearings on the impeachment of Vice President Cheney. This should not be surprising, given the…
