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Around Town: Joaquin, Rosita and history
This story is true. Or not. At right about the time of the California Gold Rush, around 1849, a young man named Joaquin Murieta and his pretty wife Rosita traveled north from Mexico, to the California mining camps to mine for gold. The threads of...Tags: Fiction, Theft, Gold and Precious Material, Robin Hood, Los Angeles Times
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Conemaugh threatened again
If Conemaugh Township Planning Commission and Township supervisors approve a re-zoning of residential farmland, it can happen. What scares me the most is that once the township permits re-zoning for surface mining, it loses any and all control of the...Tags: Metal and Mineral
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Tweets vs. phone calls
Not so long ago, a man on an airplane was served a sandwich he didn't like. He used Twitter — the real-time personal news feed, if you didn't know — to alert the world to his displeasure. An airline employee on the ground saw the tweet,...
Tags: Sandwiches, Tourism and Leisure Industry, Trips and Vacations, Media Industry, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Citizens United II
"While American democracy is imperfect, few outside the majority of this Court would have thought its flaws included a dearth of corporate money in politics." That penultimate sentence in now-retired Justice John Paul Stevens' brilliant dissent in the...
Tags: Politics, Republican Party, Sheldon Whitehouse, Political Corruption, Non Ferrous Metal
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Apodaca: Corporations have no place in public education
How far should we go to save public education? So far as to name a school gym after a corporate sponsor? Let business interests influence textbook content? Put cigarette and junk food ads on the sides of school buses? If you think these ideas sound far-...Tags: Politics, Jerry Brown, Business, Executive Branch, Finance
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Capitol Notebook: Mining bonds were not enough
American New CorrespondentPIERRE — The history of mining in South Dakota, whether for gold or gravel, shows us that some companies take responsibility for the damages they cause. But some don’t. And when they don’t, then someone else must. Either another...Tags: Justice System, Companies and Corporations, Gold and Precious Material, Local Government, Richmond Hill
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Researchers find fossil of a turtle that was size of a Smart car
Excavating in a coal mine in Colombia, paleontologists have discovered the fossil of the world's largest turtle, a 60-million-year-old specimen nearly 8 feet long -- the size of a Smart car. Thriving in a lake about 5 million years after the demise of the...
Tags: College Sports, Fossils, Science, Science and Technology, North Carolina State University
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Pebble mine could devastate Alaska rivers, streams, EPA says
SEATTLE -- The Environmental Protection Agency is warning that plans for a massive mine in the hills above Bristol Bay in Alaska — home of the biggest sockeye salmon fishery in the world — could have devastating consequences for rivers and...
Tags: Republican Party, Fishing, Water Pollution, Lisa Murkowski, Los Angeles Times
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Biden: 'Romney seems to want it both ways' on auto bailout credit
MARTINS FERRY, Ohio -- Joe Biden on Thursday mocked Mitt Romney for attempting to claim credit for the rebound of the American auto industry, linking the GOP hopeful's past criticism of the Obama administration's rescue plan with his role as the head of...Tags: Politics, Mitt Romney, Republican Party, Elections, The New York Times
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New “Call of the Wildman” episodes — Turtleman meets Hogman, takes part in a bachelor auction, and more
Channel Guide MagazineAnimal Planet recently announced that Call of the Wildman, starring Ernie Brown Jr. (a.k.a. “Turtleman”) would be back with new episodes on Sundays starting June 3. The network recently gave some details about what some of the first few... -
Permit transfer opens possibility for new gold mine
American News CorrespondentPIERRE — The state Board of Minerals and Environment decided Thursday to allow the transfer by one company to another company of a permit to mine gold in an area about five miles west of Lead near the rim of Spearfish Canyon. The transfer is...Tags: Judges, Justice System, Conservation, Savoy (music group), Companies and Corporations
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