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SIDEBAR: The Story of Orphan Uranium Mine

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Grand Canyon National Park, Ariz. — Surrounded by a chain-link fence posted with signs warning of dangerous radiation levels, the abandoned Orphan uranium mine sits on the Grand Canyon’s south rim, three miles from the park’s famous El Tovar Hotel. Nearly 40 years after one of America’s top-producing uranium mines was closed [...]


GardaWorld Iraq, Baghdad Security Statistics 7/30/08

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Sidebar: Endangered Species Exemption

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Sen. John McCain’s 2003 vote to exempt Fort Huachuca from a key provision of the Endangered Species Act was contrary to his usual advice to fellow members of Congress. He is known to tels colleagues that they should not give special protections to a local military base if it faces closure.
Rep. Rick [...]


States turn down US abstinence education grants

WASHINGTON (AP) — Skeptical states are shoving aside millions of federal dollars for abstinence education, walking away from the program the Bush administration touts for slowing teen sexual activity. Barely half the states are still in, and two more say they are leaving.
Some $50 million has been budgeted for this year, and financially strapped states [...]


TWI Boards Campaign Plane

WASHINGTON — The national news Web site, The Washington Independent, jetted to the Midwest this week. Its senior political reporter, Sridhar Pappu, boarded Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign plane on Sunday. TWI will continue covering the election from the campaign trail — and the air — joining the press corps on both Obama’s and Sen. John [...]


VIDEO: TWI Aboard Obama Plane

Somewhere between Detroit and Washington, Sen. Barack Obama had an impromptu press conference with reporters traveling with him on the campaign trail. The Washington Independent’s politics reporter Sridhar Pappu catches Obama discussing U.S. oil reserves.


Lieberman E-Mail Announcing ‘Citizens for McCain’

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To: Fellow McCain Supporters
From: Senator Joe Lieberman
Date: June 5th, 2008
Today, I asked Senator McCain if I could create and chair a new grassroots organization, "Citizens for McCain."
Citizens for McCain is an organization within the McCain campaign for people who put country [...]


STATE OF PLAY: Bush on U.S. Troops in Iraq

<p>Here at The Washington Independent, we’ve decided to track how a top story of the day is played in major publications around the Web and in print. We’re kicking off this feature, which we call &quot;State of Play,&quot; with a collection of headlines on George W. Bush’s speech about U.S. troops in Iraq. Check it [...]


VIDEO: One Iraq Veteran’s Story

Jon Michael Turner’s story of serving as a Marine in Iraq was documented here by a team of video journalists on behalf of The Washington Independent. Turner testified at the Winter Soldier: Iraq & Afghanistan conference, sponsored by Iraq Veterans Against the War held in Silver Spring, MD.  Our national security reporter Spencer Ackerman also [...]