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On Native Ground CARBON-FREE ELECTRICITY BY 2018? WE CAN DO THIS by Randolph T. Holhut American Reporter Correspondent Dummerston, Vt.

Former Vice President and environmental crusader Al Gore has joined a crusade against the Keystone XL pipeline that supporters say is crucial to meeting the energy needs of America.

Good communication is priceless. When something is communicated badly, there is a cost to be borne.

The New York Times : Bishops Were Prepared For Battle Over Birth Control Coverage When after much internal debate the Obama administration finally announced its decision to require religiously affiliated hospitals and universities to cover birth control in their insurance plans, the nation's Roman Catholic bishops were fully prepared for battle.

On the evening of Jan. 30, the Wilmette Public Library and Go Green Wilmette hosted the Greener Choices presentation "The Climate Reality Project and the Oceans." The Climate Reality Project is a follow-up to Al Gore's prize-winning film, An Inconvenient Truth .

City Controller John Liu 's No. 2 is stepping down, dealing a major blow to the scandal-scarred pol and plans to overhaul the city's $120 billion pension system, the Daily News has learned.

Under a portrait of George Washington, Rep. Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., accompanied by wife Jane, next to him left, and fellow Republicans, meets reporters on Capitol Hill Tuesday, Jan.

Ten years ago this week, democracy and fair play got mugged by five Supreme Court justices who overruled the will of more than 50 million Americans and made George W. Bush president.

I am not surprised that Rick Santorum is an idiot. But I am amazed at how much mileage idiots get out of denying a reality that can kill you.

"THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman." With these words Thomas Paine, the contrarian protagonist of our American Revolution and the foremost polemicist of his ... (more)

Standing alongside lifesized cardboard cutouts of Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and other presidential candidates, about 40 college students gathered on the state Capitol steps Friday.

It's time. After nearly 40 years as a newspaper journalist, more than 37 of those years at The Post-Crescent, I've cleared out piles of accumulated notebooks, articles, news releases and reports hemorrhaging from my desk and file cabinets and called it a career.

Happy Apple shareholders by now have received their annual reports and proxies for the Feb.

The "global warming will cause a chocolate shortage" scare tactic isn't entirely new , but apparently spreading the rumor that a Whitman's Sampler will cost as much as a Chevy Volt within a decade if developed countries don't give trillions of dollars to the United Nations wasn't causing sufficient truffle panic among the general public.

Is it possible these days to be a new, active conservative running for Congress for the first time and not know who Andrew Breitbart is? Me, I'd reckon that an in-the-know, new candidate who claims to be conservative and a spokesman for Tea Partiers could not possibly be so isolated that he is unaware of conservative media-crusader Andrew ... (more)

If you like Republican Gov. John Kasich, you liked his Steubenville State of the State speech.

DUMMERSTON, Vt. -- The events of Sept. 11, 2001, of course, indelibly mark the decade that is ending tonight.

Fifteen years is a hell of long time to have to listen to ever more hysterical pronouncements that the end of the world is nigh -- all without that predicted disaster happening to even the most minimal degree.

Hendra Putra said a final prayer at a Christmas vigil Mass on Sunday evening and offered a friend a ride home.

Tribune file photo) Rep. Kraig Powell, R-Heber City, wants to reform the way presidential elections work in Utah -- with voters directly choosing the state's electors.