"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
My first post here at Polizeros was about that Manhattan federal court judge who rejected a proposed settlement between the S.E.C. and Citigroup last November. The S.E.C. has just announced that it is changing its policy on some settlements. The…
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources placed a moratorium on further pumping of waste liquids in an area five miles around a disposal well located near Youngstown after the 10th earthquake hit the region on December 24th. In response, the owner of…
Falling real estate prices and stalled development have created opportunities for national and state non-profit organizations like the Conservation Fund, Save the Redwoods League and the Trust for Public Land to acquire thousands of acres in California at bargain prices.…
Badwater Basin, on the edge of Death Valley National Park, is in the science and nanotech news this week. A research team led by Dennis Bazylinski and colleagues at the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) has announced the discovery of…
Charles Pierce has something to say as 2011 comes to an end–his post is titled America Will Only Get Better When It Is Ours Again. [O]f course, we must never make the perfect the enemy of the good. But you…
As National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) spokesman Christopher Vaccaro put it: In many ways, 2011 rewrote the record books. For the Guardian’s series “2011 In Review”,  John Vidal sums up the past year. The year 2011 was another ecologically tumultuous…