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Wind farms get pass on eagle deaths

May 14, 2013 in The Dickinson Press

CONVERSE COUNTY, Wyo. Wind farms in this corner of Wyoming have killed more than four dozen golden eagles since 2009, one of the deadliest places in the country of its kind. Continue Reading

Keystone foes in Congress insist Obama find a greenhouse-gas offsets

May 5, 2013 in The Daily Republic

Democratic leaders expect president to OK pipeline, seek other environmental action.
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Fresh off victory, NRA holds convention in Houston

May 3, 2013 in The Dickinson Press

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) Fresh off a huge victory over President Barack Obama on gun control, the message from the National Rifle Association is clear: The fight has just begun.

The powerful gun rights lobby gathers in Houston this weekend for its annual convention and organizers anticipate a rollicking, Texas-sized party both to celebrate the victory in Washington and recharge for more political struggles as gun control advocates tally their own successes in states around the country. Continue Reading

Presidents praise George W. Bush at new library

April 25, 2013 in The Daily Republic

“My deepest conviction, the guiding principle of the administration, is that the United States of America must strive to expand the reach of freedom,” Bush said. “I believe that freedom is a gift from God and the hope of every human heart.”
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Dems, GOP press Obama administration on drone use

April 23, 2013 in The Daily Republic

WASHINGTON (AP) Senate Democrats and Republicans on Tuesday challenged the Obama administration to explicitly spell out its justification for using drones for targeted killings amid growing concerns about unchecked powers of the presidency and Americans’ civil liberties.
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Obama presses for farm bill

April 18, 2013 in The Daily Republic

President’s 2014 fiscal year budget does not include a to Brazil 147 million. Continue Reading

Lewis and Clark water system officials upset with federal funding

April 16, 2013 in The Daily Republic

SIOUX FALLS (AP) The board chairman of the Lewis and Clark Regional Water System says the amount of money for the project in President Barack Obama’s fiscal 2014 budget proposal “leaves us completely dead in the water.”
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Obama’s budget snubs F-M diversion

April 10, 2013 in The Dickinson Press

FARGO For the first time in four years, President Barack Obama’s annual budget proposal doesn’t provide funding for the Fargo-Moorhead diversion project, which the chairman of the Diversion Authority said may slow the project but won’t stop it. Continue Reading

Obama budget targets millionaires, replaces sequester cuts

April 10, 2013 in The Dickinson Press

WASHINGTON – The White House on Wednesday proposed a budget that would sharply trim the U.S. deficit over three years by forcing millionaires to pay more in taxes and enacting spending cuts that replace the “sequester” reductions that went into place last month.
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Obama to bring some Sandy Hook families on AF1

April 8, 2013 in The Dickinson Press

HARTFORD, Conn. President Barack Obama is providing a ride on Air Force One to 11 relatives of those killed at Connecticut’s Sandy Hook Elementary School so they can attend his gun control speech Monday before heading to Washington to personally plead with senators reluctant to back gun legislation. Continue Reading