by Jane Richey | Jan 19, 2013 | Agenda 21, Politics
The Interior Department is delaying planned rules that would impose new requirements on the controversial oil-and-gas production method called hydraulic fracturing. Interior said Friday that it will float a new version of draft rules first issued last May and take new...
by Jane Richey | Jan 19, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
Leaders of the most conservative bloc in the House Republican Conference are backing leadership’s plan to increase the debt ceiling for three months, even though the increase has no concrete spending cuts attached to it. In exchange, conservatives have won assurances...
by Jane Richey | Jan 19, 2013 | Events
Saturday, Jan. 26 at 9:00 a.m. at Kings Restaurant in Franklin. Come at 8:00 a.m. for breakfast and good fellowship. Our special speakers will be Kenton & Paula Cornmesser, owners and operators of Big Oak Ridge. They have a presentation “The Politics of Food.” ...
by Jane Richey | Jan 18, 2013 | Politics
A West Point think tank has issued a paper warning America about “far right” groups such as the “anti-federalist” movement, which supports “civil activism, individual freedoms and self-government.” The report issued this week by the Combating Terrorism Center at the...
by Jane Richey | Jan 18, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
A new report says the government’s program that gives families aid to pay for groceries is failing in some aspects of its execution, such as not accounting for many barriers to finding affordable, nutritious food by inner-city shoppers. The report, which was put...
