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On the Hill: The week in Washington reviewed
2013-02-16 21:08:48| Footwear - Topix.net
Kenneth Polite , Sen. Mary Landrieu 's choice to replace Jim Letten as U.S. Attorney in New Orleans, is a "great guy," and a very good prosecutor, says his former supervisor at the U.S. Attorney's Office in New York City.
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Vancouver, Washington Made Bid For Nike Expansion
2013-02-15 21:05:22| Apparel - Topix.net
The city of Vancouver and state of Washington made a bid for Nike expansion last year before Oregon lawmakers gave the Beaverton company a tax deal to keep growing within the state.
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Vancouver, Washington Made Bid For Nike Expansion
2013-02-15 17:56:12| Footwear - Topix.net
The city of Vancouver and state of Washington made a bid for Nike expansion last year before Oregon lawmakers gave the Beaverton company a tax deal to keep growing within the state.
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Keystone XL moves to centre stage of Washington political drama
2013-02-15 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Beacon News: President Barack Obama`s State of the Union clarion call for action on environmental issues has put climate change at centre stage in the U.S. capital _ and the Keystone XL pipeline is once again playing the role of the villain. As the Government Accountability Office added climate change to its list of "high risk" fiscal issues that threaten big costs to taxpayers, two liberal U.S. senators introduced legislation Thursday aimed at putting a price on carbon. The bill from Bernie Sanders, an...
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Why I Came to Washington to Protest the Keystone Pipeline
2013-02-15 14:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Its not exactly as if hell has frozen over, for me, an oil and gas geologist to be protesting -- maybe even beyond the extent allowable by law the folly of the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline. Ive hugged a tree or two before, written some letters opposing this or that dam, mine, clear-cut, or whatnot. Ive lived the last 26 years in the backwoods of northwest Montana, writing pretty little stories, poems and essays about the million-acre garden of the Yaak Valley, a lush wild rainforest of a place,...
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