BP will leave the cap on the oil well while it vacates the area for a number of days to avoid the coming tropical storm.
What could possibly go wrong?
One expert warns that increasing pressure might have an unintended danger:
Bill Gale, a Ca ...
Posted Saturday, July 24th 2010 at 6:11PM
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Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott said today that race was one of the reasons to support local control of schools.
“If you’re 70 percent African-American, you’re going to deal with different issues,” Scott said.
“Yes, you are,” sa ...
Posted Friday, July 23rd 2010 at 2:54PM
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Gulf Coast fishermen and others with lost income claims against BP are outraged by a recent announcement that the $20 billion government-administered claim fund will subtract money they earn by working on the cleanup effort from any future damage cla ...
Posted Thursday, July 22nd 2010 at 10:49AM
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When you and I set out on this journey three years ago, we knew that ours would be a lengthy struggle to build a new foundation for this country -- one that would require squaring off against the special interests who had spent decades stacking the d ...
Posted Thursday, July 22nd 2010 at 9:49AM
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — State health officials want women in their childbearing years and seniors to get immunized against whooping cough as California's epidemic grows.
As of July 16, at least 1,496 cases of whooping cough, or pertussis, have been fou ...
Posted Wednesday, July 21st 2010 at 2:23PM
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WALNUT CREEK, Calif. (AP) - Dozens of people rallied Monday in support of a white former transit officer convicted of killing an unarmed black man on an Oakland train platform.
The emotional display brought an outcry from hundreds of counter-prote ...
Posted Wednesday, July 21st 2010 at 2:21PM
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July 19, 2010
To the Spiritual, Political, Educational, and Economic Leaders and to our Sports and Entertainment Giants:
May this open letter find you well and in good spirit as we search for a solution to the many problems that we face as a pe ...
Posted Tuesday, July 20th 2010 at 9:11PM
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From The Huffington Post
July 19, 2010
The 22 statistics detailed here prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the middle class is being systematically wiped out of existence in America.
Once upon a time, the United States had the largest and m ...
Posted Tuesday, July 20th 2010 at 2:13PM
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From Newsweek.com
July 19, 2010
At its annual convention in Kansas City, the NAACP on Tuesday issued a report stating that the loose alliance of Right-wing interests collectively known as the "Tea Party" had "racist elements" within its ranks. Pu ...
Posted Tuesday, July 20th 2010 at 2:10PM
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A man who was shot and killed on Saturday morning by Oakland and BART police officers after charging against them with knives in each hand was identified as 48-year-old Oakland resident Fred Collins.
Collins was shot multiple times after leading ...
Posted Monday, July 19th 2010 at 12:41PM
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The Education Department is investigating an employee who allegedly used the N-word repeatedly during a PTA meeting - and doled out advice on how to keep parents from getting involved.
Ron Barfield, an African-American who is the district's paid ...
Posted Monday, July 19th 2010 at 12:30PM
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From Newsweek.com
July 17, 2010
The Republicans have a set of dirty little (actually not so little) secrets they don't what you to know -- and certainly don't want you to think about when you go to the polls in November.
And the fact is that ...
Posted Sunday, July 18th 2010 at 2:06PM
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From TheModerateVoice.com
July 17, 2010
The NAACP is pursuing its own mandate in “condemning racism within the Tea Party movement” while a Congresswoman stirs members by proclaiming, “Those who used to wear sheets are now being able to walk down ...
Posted Saturday, July 17th 2010 at 6:16PM
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ATLANTA -- A federal appeals court Friday upheld the three-year prison sentence against film star Wesley Snipes, who was convicted two years ago of failing to file income tax returns for three years.
The opinion by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of ...
Posted Friday, July 16th 2010 at 7:27PM
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Two weeks after the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan delivered his historic message in Atlanta, Georgia on June 26, 2010, asking, then answering, the question “Who Are The Real Children of Israel?” on July 11th, he returned to offer the absolute pr ...
Posted Thursday, July 15th 2010 at 4:34PM
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OAKLAND, CALIF. — Despite last-minute negotiations Tuesday, one of the nation's most crime-ridden cities had to lay off almost 10 percent of its police force.
Oakland city leaders and its police union failed to agree before a 5 p.m. deadline, leav ...
Posted Thursday, July 15th 2010 at 4:04PM
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