TRP News with James Andre. This week an news from the Clinton campaign and the conservative false flag operations to erode her support, the Iran nuclear negotiation bill finally goes to the President, fast track moves forward in Congress, the Amtrak crash and the funding debate, and an update on the HIV outbreak in Indian…
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TRP News – Progressive News & Information – May 11, 2015
TRP News with James Andre. This week an update on Iran nuclear deal legislation, the current state of fast track legislation for TPP and what really happened to those manufacturing jobs, another story about the wrongs being committed under civil asset forfeiture laws, the nature of the debate over GMOs, and an outbreak of STDs…
TRP News – Progressive News & Information – May 4, 2015
TRP News with James Andre. This week the police state in Baltimore comes to an end, Bernie Sanders announces his run for the presidency and raises 1.5 million dollars, Saudi Arabia drops cluster bombs in Yemen, Indiana uses more half measures as the HIV outbreak is expected to grow, and the status of fast track…
TRP News – Progressive News & Information – April 27, 2015
TRP News with James Andre. This week Loretta Lynch is finally confirmed and sworn in as U.S. Attorney General, and the Comcast/Time Warner merger finally gives up the ghost. An update on what is happening in Yemen and the arrival of ISIS, and a report on the global refugee crisis. An in-depth discussion of the…
TRP News – Progressive News & Information – Weekly Digest – April 20, 2015
This weeks topics are the legislation giving Congress oversight on any Iran deal, The state of the Loretta Lynch confirmation process, the passage of the permanent ‘doc fix’ for medicare payments, an update on Yemen and U.S. involvement, more about the Trans Pacific Partnership and the reactionary rhetoric from the Left, the status of the…
Ohio’s Huge Voter Fraud Investigation Turns Up Nearly Nothing
Husted’s office would not provide any information about the 27 people it referred to the Attorney General’s office for further review. But in 2013, his office sent 17 potential cases — .0003 percent of total ballots cast in the state — to the AG who eventually referred them to county prosecutors. Most reports of voting…
These Republicans Want to Take Away Your Weekend
Though labor often boasts that it helped codify the two-day work break—witness the popular pro-labor bumper sticker, “Unions: the folks that brought you the weekend”—a day of rest is protected by law in only a fraction of the states. According to the Society for Human Resource Management, thirteen states have laws mandating a day…
West Virginia Passes Bill Rolling Back Regulations On Chemical Storage Tanks
The West Virginia legislature has passed a bill that scales back regulations meant to protect state waterways from storage tank spills, a piece of legislation that some worry could leave the state’s water more vulnerable to the kind of spill that contaminated the water of 300,000 state residents last year. The bill, which was passed…
TRP News – Progressive News & Info – Weekly Digest – March 30, 2015
This week’s topics are Senator McConnell’s efforts to undermine EPA regulations about coal and the global treaty on climate change, Indiana’s religious freedom law and the disingenuousness of Governor Pence, the state of the Loretta Lynch confirmation, and an update on the Iran nuclear negotiations. View video on youtube for relevant supporting links in the…
F.C.C. Approves Net Neutrality Rules, Classifying Broadband Internet Service as a Utility
The Federal Communications Commission voted on Thursday to regulate broadband Internet service as a public utility, a milestone in regulating high-speed Internet service into American homes. Tom Wheeler, the commission chairman, said the F.C.C. was using “all the tools in our toolbox to protect innovators and consumers” and preserve the Internet’s role as a “core…
Meet the Unusual Plaintiffs Behind the Supreme Court Case That Could Destroy Obamacare
On March 4, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in King v. Burwell, a lawsuit designed by conservative advocates to destroy Obamacare. If the plaintiffs prevail, about 8 million people could lose their health insurance. Premiums are likely to skyrocket by 35 percent or more, threatening coverage for millions of others. Health policy experts…
Cross-State Health Plans Prove Popular But Unsuccessful
Despite the potential to make more money, companies haven’t jumped at the opportunity in states that have lowered barriers. Insurance department officials in Georgia, Maine and Wyoming told Governing that no out-of-state insurers have expressed interest, and no such policies have been sold. Denise Burke, a senior policy and planning analyst with Wyoming’s insurance department, suspects…
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler: This Is How We Will Ensure Net Neutrality
The internet wouldn’t have emerged as it did, for instance, if the FCC hadn’t mandated open access for network equipment in the late 1960s. Before then, AT&T prohibited anyone from attaching non-AT&T equipment to the network. The modems that enabled the internet were usable only because the FCC required the network to be open. Companies…
Outrage Over US Secret Approval of Genetically Engineered Trees
Groups from around the world today joined together to denounce the US government for allowing the first genetically engineered tree, a loblolly pine, to be legalized with no government or public oversight, with no assessment of their risks to the public or the environment, and without regard to overwhelming public opposition to GE trees….
Appeals court strikes down GOP plan to cut early voting in Ohio
A federal appeals court on Wednesday cleared the way for voters in Ohio to begin casting in-person ballots as early as Tuesday, 35 days before the November midterm election. A three-judge panel of the Cincinnati-based 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Peter Economus earlier this month that…
Ohio lawmakers want to limit the teaching of the scientific process
Science educators have recognized that teaching science as a large compendium of facts, without reference to the scientific process and theories that bind them together, simply leads to uninterested and uninformed students. So it’s a bit mind-boggling to discover that an Ohio state legislator is attempting to block educators from teaching anything about the scientific process. And…
Ferguson – You’re Doing It Wrong
Last night someone shouted. Last night someone moved a traffic cone. Last night someone stood in the street. Someone threw a bottle, threw a rock. Last night someone threw their hands in the air. Today, people are waking to closed schools and a state of emergency. They are waking to military troops and military vehicles. Some walk through streets…
Police refuse to release video after Dayton-area killing
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine says that Crawford was shot while carrying a toy gun that fires BB pellets. Crawford had picked the gun up off the sporting goods shelf where Walmart displays it. The gun is manufactured by Crosman and is classified as a “variable pump air rifle.” Police said that Crawford was waving…
Civil Rights Groups To Missouri Gov: Ferguson Curfew Is Unconstitutional
Three civil liberties organizations raised First Amendment concerns with Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon’s imposition of a curfew in Ferguson to quell ongoing clashes between law enforcement and civilians over the slaying of an unarmed black teenager on Aug. 9 by a police officer. Amid another night of unrest on Sunday, the American Civil Liberties Union,…
Alabama Prisons Are Facing A Record-Breaking Tuberculosis Outbreak
“This is a very serious outbreak,” Pam Barrett, director of the tuberculosis control, told the Associated Press. “We think we’re at the end of it. The Department of Corrections is a hotbed of TB because of the living arrangements.” In June, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Center filed a…