Apr 19
2013
War on whistleblowers
A sobering piece published on Alternet on the federal government’s escalating efforts to silence whistleblowers and snoop on citizens and journalists in the name of national security.
Posted 11 years ago
Apr 19
2013
A sobering piece published on Alternet on the federal government’s escalating efforts to silence whistleblowers and snoop on citizens and journalists in the name of national security.
Apr 19
2013
Jeremy Zellner, chairman of the Erie County Democratic Party, tells Jim Heaney of Investigative Post that Gov. Andrew Cuomo still isn’t talking to party HQ after failing to elect his preferred candidate to lead local Democrats. More of the interview will air Saturday about 6:40 a.m. on WGRZ Daybreak.
Apr 18
2013
The Guardian identifies seven senators who played a key role in Wednesday’s defeat of a series of gun control measures. Four are Democrats.
Apr 16
2013
New York Magazine: “He has become New York’s most successful governor since, well, the early days of Mario Cuomo. Yet he’s engendered much more fear than love.”
Apr 11
2013
An analysis by The New York Times notes the rising tide of discontent with the governor as reflected in falling poll numbers and strained alliances. “He has had little success addressing the state’s long-term challenges,” the analysis concludes.
Apr 9
2013
The first study of its kind has found that women get shortchanged in their paychecks worse in Western New York than all but a handful of the nation’s 50 largest markets. Nationally, women working full time get paid an average of 77 cents for every $1 made by a man. Women in the Buffalo market earn 73 cents, ranking the region third-worst behind only Seattle and Pittsburgh. Here’s what the report by the National Partnership for Women & Families had to say about our region: In the Buffalo metro area, on average, a woman who holds a full-time job is paid[...]
Apr 9
2013
UCLA research found a possible link in California between high exposure to vehicle emission pollution and three rare types of childhood cancers.
Apr 9
2013
Frank Rich in New York magazine: “The decline and fall of old media was inevitable and unavoidable. The old media were not always what they were cracked up to be. And the end of civilization as we know it is not in the cards.”