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Black Coffeyville

Oil spill adds agitation to tri-state flooding A 42,000-gallon oil spill in Kansas is complicating state and federal response to flooding that has walloped that state, Oklahoma, and Texas. Weeks […]

Bald eagle soars off the threatened-species list, and more

Read the articles mentioned at the end of the podcast: John Ashcroft, Where Are You? We Always Thought It Was Industrial Strength Barrier Methods Sure to Hit Fox News Soon […]

Readers write in about violent fires, violently bad puns, and more

  Dear Editor: How significant is the difference between one idiot burning a building full of rare plant tissues, research, writing, curricula, slides, and books all regarding the worthy goal […]

Vader, Cheney, same same

The brilliant series of pieces on Dick (Vader) Cheney continues with the latest installment about destroying salmon runs for partisan purposes, making the western U.S. look like a pincushion punctured with drilling rigs, and unleashing the hounds of hell (snowmobiles) throughout Yosemite.

Dick Cheney -- truly an execrable almost-human being.

John Ashcroft, Where Are You?

Bald eagle soars off threatened-species list, cockfighting banned Two momentous avian occasions occurred this week: on Wednesday, the Louisiana legislature banned cockfighting, making it the last state in the U.S. […]

The Tahoe Blues

Blaze rages around Lake Tahoe; blame game begins in earnest What’s to blame for the raging fire that has burned more than 200 homes near California’s South Lake Tahoe? Try […]

Defends herself at a hill hearing, poorly

You’ve probably heard that ex-EPA chief Christie Todd Whitman was up on the hill on Monday, defending herself against accusations that she misled New Yorkers about the dangers of air […]

Calling All Working Assets Customers

Grist made the list — now we need your votes Dearest Working Assets customers: did you know your conscientious phone and credit card spending can support your conscientious web habits? […]

Alito Bit More Critter-Hating

Supreme Court sides with developers on Endangered Species Act case Like a tormented parent with two kids in a spelling bee, environmentalists watched in horror this week as the U.S. […]

In Black, climate-conscious youth jazz band, answers questions

In Black. Photos courtesy In Black What work do you do? We are in a jazz band called In Black. We are Carson, Christian, Langston, Lati, and Lauren, and we’re […]