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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on the Obama administration's decision to review upward of 200 mountaintop coal mining permits; J. Sri Raman on the conspicuously absent dialogue surrounding the US-India nuclear deal ahead of India's parliamentary elections; Bill Moyers interviews journalist William Greider on Washington's alliance with Wall Street; facing budget cuts, Michigan governor wants to transfer protection of state wetlands to EPA; Nevada looks to removing industry influence from OSHA; judge orders FDA to reconsider age limit for morning-after pill; Atlanta court case could determine whether doctors or state officials decide how much medical care a patient needs; Massachusetts begins tracking individual student achievement; Kentucky election officials charged with conspiring to alter electronically cast ballots in several recent elections; and more ... Browse our continually updating front page at http://www.truthout.org t r u t h o u t | 03.25 Go directly to our issues page: http://www.truthout.org/issues Robert F. Kennedy Jr. | Hope in the Mountains http://www.truthout.org/032509R Robert F. Kennedy Jr., The Washington Post: "Yesterday was a great day for the people of Appalachia and for all of America. In a bold departure from Bush-era energy policy, the Obama administration suspended a coal company's permit to dump debris from its proposed mountaintop mining operation into a West Virginia valley and stream. In addition, the administration promised to carefully review upward of 200 such permits awaiting approval by the US Army Corps of Engineers." House Democrats Try to Pare Obama's 2010 Budget http://www.truthout.org/032509S Reuters: "President Barack Obama's fellow Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday proposed slimming down his fiscal 2010 budget to $3.45 trillion from $3.55 trillion amid bipartisan concerns about it exploding the deficit." J. Sri Raman | The Issue India Won't Vote On http://www.truthout.org/032509T J. Sri Raman, Truthout: "Just nine months ago, the issue threatened to defeat (and thus dislodge) India's government in its Parliament. The question of the US-India nuclear deal, however, is conspicuously absent from the otherwise loud and heated campaign of the main opposition for the nation's parliamentary elections less than a month away." Bill Moyers Journal | Journalist William Greider http://www.truthout.org/032509U Bill Moyers Journal: "For years, best-selling author William Greider sounded the alarm about Washington's unholy alliance with Wall Street and the failure of the Federal Reserve and other regulators to take preventive measures to avoid disaster. Now, he offers some suggestions to the question everyone is asking: 'What do we do now?'" Critics Cringe at Michigan Proposal to Hand Wetland Protection to EPA http://www.truthout.org/032509EA John Flesher, The Associated Press: "Governor Jennifer Granholm's proposal to hand over protection of Michigan wetlands to the federal government comes as critics in Congress and elsewhere say federal agencies are falling down on the job." Nevada OSHA Revamp Bill Targets Industry Influence http://www.truthout.org/032509LA Alexandra Berzon, The Las Vegas Sun: "The chairwoman of the Nevada Senate Labor Committee is proposing legislation to overhaul the structure of the state Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Sen. Maggie Carlton's bill would remove Nevada OSHA from the Business and Industry Department and place it under the purview of an existing OSHA review board, a step intended to insulate the agency from strong business influence." Judge Orders FDA to Reconsider Limits on Morning-After Pill for Minors http://www.truthout.org/032509WA Rob Stein, The Washington Post: "A federal court today ordered the Food and Drug Administration to reconsider the agency's controversial decision limiting non-prescription access to the morning-after pill Plan B to women age 18 and older." Medicaid Suit Could Determine Who Decides Care: Doctor or State http://www.truthout.org/032509HA Alyson M. Palmer, Fulton County Daily Report: "State governments and Medicaid plan administrators have shown keen interest in a case argued before Atlanta's federal appeals court on Tuesday that could determine whether doctors or state officials get to decide how much medical care a Medicaid recipient needs." State Seeks to Gauge Whether Students or Teachers Are Lagging http://www.truthout.org/032509ED James Vaznis, The Boston Globe: "Each fall when the state releases MCAS scores, principals often blame a drop in scores on the students, tactfully arguing that the class in question was perhaps not as superb a group of mathematicians or as voracious readers as their predecessors were." Matt Blaze | Is the E-Voting Honeymoon Over? http://www.truthout.org/032509VA Matt Blaze, Exhaustive Search: "Eight Clay County, Kentucky, election officials were charged last week with conspiring to alter ballots cast on electronic voting machines in several recent elections. The story was first reported on a local TV station and was featured on the election integrity site BradBlog. According to the indictment, the conspiracy allegedly included, among other things, altering ballots cast on the county's ES&S iVotronic touchscreen voting machines." Go directly to our issues page: http://www.truthout.org/issues _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ You are subscribed as: [email protected] Click to REMOVE -> mailto: leave-315455-89023.f956bc80983b4a963dc102b7d4cee...@newsletter.truthout.org Go directly to our home page: http://www.truthout.org Click to SUBSCRIBE -> http://truthout.org/subscribe.htm Our Privacy Policy -> http://www.truthout.org/privacy
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