The U.S. House of Representatives voted Thursday to halt federal funding of National Public Radio by a largely partisan vote of 228-192. One House member voted ‘Present,’ and 12 did not vote.
The bill, sponsored by Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-Colo.), does not
Colorado-Springs Republican Doug Lamborn has led the charge for two years to ban federal funding for National Public Radio programming. His bill has gained traction among Republican House leaders as a conservative dirty-tricks media campaign has been waged
A new Bloomberg News poll indicates that nearly 8 in 10 Americans believe that legislators should reach a compromise on the federal budget in order to avert a government shutdown.
What does National Public Radio have in common with Planned Parenthood? They’re both national organizations, both often despised by the right wing, both receive federal funding and both have been singled out by House Republicans as organizations that should be stripped of federal funding.
A new poll conducted by Quinnipiac University indicates that despite the abundance in the media of birtherism and other anti-Obama sentiment, three out of four Americans like the president personally. The poll shows that 41 percent of Americans like both the president and his policies, 33 percent like the man More…
The Republican House majority put out a shocker of a budget Thursday that would slash spending by $32 billion in the next seven months. Among the glaringly ideological Republican targets are environmental protection programs and public broadcasting. The “war on Big Bird,” as some fans of PBS have called More…
NPR makes a pretty good case for the Commission on Hope, Growth & Opportunity, a major 501(c)(4) player in this year’s elections which not only avoids disclosing its donors to the Federal Election Commission — standard practice among Section 501 nonprofits — but has also thus far declined to More…
Here’s an interesting fact: despite the massive size of the Gulf oil spill, it’s not actually the biggest oil spill ever to occur in the United States. That honor goes to an onshore oil spill in California that occurred 100 years ago.
Here’s the latest research on just where all of the oil that gushed into the Gulf of Mexico as a result of the BP oil spill went.
NPR published a detailed investigative story yesterday on mining safety that finds “safety and health violations by operators of underground coal mines have increased by nearly a third since 2006.”
The investigation, which required a review of 80,000 citations, is full of details on the most common causes of More…
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