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False Assurances Put Public at Risk; An EPA Office of Inspector General report finds that the agency showed more concern for commerce than for health of people in the aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001
Byline: Sheila R. Cherry, INSIGHT Byline: Sheila R. Cherry, INSIGHT Responding to the horror and devastation in Lower Manhattan after Sept. 11,...
Insight on the News, 10/14/03 by Sheila R. Cherry · More from publication -
Things that go oink in the night: despite tough economic times, Congress has approved federal monies for preschool anger management, sea-otter research and the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame
At a press conference to roll out the 2003 Congressional Pig Book Summary, representatives of the Washington watchdog group Citizens Against...
Insight on the News, 05/13/03 by Sheila R. Cherry · More from publication -
Bush fights war on the fiscal front: despite the uncertainty of economic survival, the Senate trims the president's stimulus package, even while eyeing the defense supplemental appropriations bill as a cash cow
March proved to be as uncertain a month for federal budgeteers as it was for weather forecasters and basketball fans. House Budget Committee...
Insight on the News, 04/15/03 by Sheila R. Cherry · More from publication -
GOP senator drilling for support: Sen. Lisa Murkowski hopes to use a budget resolution to open Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil exploration and thus increase domestic production
Even as the United States teetered on the edge of war with Iraq, the nation remained one of Saddam Hussein's best customers. U.S. Sen. Lisa...
Insight on the News, 04/01/03 by Sheila R. Cherry · More from publication -
Reorganization brings tsunami of change; critics wonder whether all the state and federal money being spent on homeland security will make the nation any safer than enforcing the laws already on the books
Not since President Harry S Truman consolidated the armed forces into the Department of Defense has a restructuring as ambitious as the new...
Insight on the News, 03/18/03 by Sheila R. Cherry · More from publication -
`Conflict diamonds' could lose sparkle: an international tracking and certification plan should significantly decrease the trade in `conflict diamonds' used by rebel movements to finance armed conflicts
The Bush administration as well as human-rights activists on Capitol Hill and the jewelry industry are encouraging an international...
Insight on the News, 02/04/03 by Sheila R. Cherry · More from publication -
High-tech voting raises questions: hot on the heels of the Florida voting fiasco of 2000, computer-based voting systems gained support. But just how reliable is this seemingly foolproof technology?
Anyone who ever has used a computer has had this sinking feeling: Will that frozen screen reboot? Can those pages made indecipherable by the word...
Insight on the News, 01/21/03 by Sheila R. Cherry · More from publication -
PRC hopes to enter sewer age; China is importing state-of-the-art technology and know-how to advance its waste-treatment infrastructure as it prepares to host the 2008 Summer Olympic Games
The People's Republic of China is enlisting some of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) critics for help in bringing the land of...
Insight on the News, 12/10/02 by Sheila R. Cherry · More from publication -
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This was to be the year that the Democrats swept the Republicans from executive mansions across the country. But something happened on the way to...
Insight on the News, 11/26/02 by Sheila R. Cherry · More from publication -
Corporate boards failing investors: as management scandals make it evident that directors provide little protection for shareholders, investors are turning to the Internet, courts and Congress for help
The relationship between a publicly held corporation and its stockholders is a lot like the relationship between a government and the taxpaying...
Insight on the News, 10/29/02 by Sheila R. Cherry · More from publication
