In 1968, a national cigarette company launched a famous ad campaign targeting women. Every ad prominently featured the tagline, “You’ve come a long way, baby.” The tagline and campaign intended to celebrate the growing influence and success of modern women in the political, economic and social arenas. Fifty years later, more than ever, women play
Aug. 21–President Donald Trump wants to open California’s coastal waters to oil drilling. State lawmakers can’t stop him, but they can make it very difficult to pull off drilling. The time to act is now. Two parallel bills — one sponsored by state Sen. Mike McGuire of Healdsburg, the other by legislators from Southern California
Aug. 21—GRAHAM — The Alamance County Board of Commissioners didn’t have the controversial 287(g) program on its agenda Monday, Aug. 20, but it heard about it from activists. “I am against 287(g) because I was wrongly detained because I am Latino,” Edith Rodriguez said through a translator. “I was detained in 2012 here in Alamance
Aug. 21—The Burlington City Council discussed nine different items and received four presentations during its work session Monday, Aug. 20, including two presentations concerning the Mountain Valley Pipeline Project. The MVP presentations took the most time. Shawn Day, representing MVP, gave a presentation, and Emily Sutton with the Haw River Assembly gave a presentation opposing
Aug. 20–ConocoPhillips and PDVSA have reached a $2 billion settlement to compensate for the seizure of the Houston oil company’s assets more than a decade ago, ending one of many disputes plaguing Venezuela’s state-controlled oil company during a time of crisis for the country. ConocoPhillips won the award earlier this year after an international arbitration
Aug. 20–Concerned with the prospects of new offshore oil drilling and easing of protections for public lands, environmentalists and community leaders will hold a series of public forums throughout Southern California over the next two weeks. In addition to expert panels, organizers have invited state and federal legislators to participate in the events, which will
Aug. 20—TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — U.S. Sen. Gary Peters, D-Michigan, says the Canadian company operating the Line 5 oil and gas pipeline underneath the Straits of Mackinac has and deserves a failing grade in public trust. “It’s a well deserved deficit of trust, given the pipeline disaster in Kalamazoo and the fact that we tend
Aug. 20—TRAVERSE CITY — It was a day of revelations as U.S. Sen. Gary Peters conducted a field hearing about safety measures and emergency response plans to a possible oil spill from Enbridge’s Line 5 in the Straits of Mackinac. Federal officials and energy transportation industry representatives gathered Monday at Northwestern Michigan College in Traverse
Aug. 20—Mark Knight, the former chief executive of a Lafayette oilfield services company, pleaded no contest Monday to corrupt influencing and public bribery as part of a scheme to set up his brother in a phony 2014 drug bust. The pleas were part of a deal with District Attorney Keith Stutes’ office, which in turn
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