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Grand New Industry: Washington’s Potential Coal Boom Sparks Big Questions and Uncertain Answers

by Laurel Dammann on December 10, 2012 · comment

Debate over coal exports in Pacific Northwest leaves some out, critics charge By Curtis Tate and Kristi Pihl for McClatchy PASCO, Wash. — While proposals to turn green-leaning Washington state into a major exporter of coal to China have [...]

No Salmon for the Salmon People of America

by The Investigative Newswire on July 20, 2012 · comment

by Katie Campbell & Saskia de Melker for PBS NewsHour Billy Frank, Jr. was 14 the first time he was arrested for fishing. It was 1945, and he was on the Nisqually River in Washington state. Frank and other [...]

Measuring the Risk of Political Corruption in the United States

by The Investigative Newswire on March 19, 2012 · comment

Protester holding Adbuster's Corporate American Flag at Bush's 2nd inauguration, Washington DC. photo: Jonathan McIntosh (Wikimedia Commons)

Grading the nation: How accountable is your state? by Caitlin Ginley for iWatch News The tales are sadly familiar to even the most casual observer of state politics. In Georgia, more than 650 government employees accepted gifts from vendors [...]

Renting in the Recession: Housing Conditions Worsen as Rates Increase

by The Investigative Newswire on February 7, 2011 · 1 Comment

Rising rents, stagnant wages and high unemployment led more than 7 million U.S. households either to live in substandard dwellings or pay more than half their monthly incomes for rent in 2009, according to a federal report delivered to Congress on Tuesday.

Special Alert: Water Bills Force Homeowners Into Foreclosure

by The Investigative Newswire on May 24, 2010 · comment

THE TAX LIEN FORECLOSURE: How Small Debts Snowball

Wall Street & Deregulatory Actions

by The Investigative Newswire on March 16, 2009 · comment

Published on Saturday, March 7, 2009 by CommonDreams.org 12 Deregulatory Steps to Financial Meltdown Wall Street’s Best Investment – Part II by Robert Weissman & Disseminated by The Erie Wire What can $5 billion buy in Washington? Quite [...]