…by Florida’s First District Court of Appeals. The trial is also a test of the state’s super-preemption law – laws created to intimidate local, and often more progressive, lawmakers from…
Koch Astroturf Army Cheers Union Busting in Kentucky
…“right to work” ordinances in Kentucky in the New York Times. Many Kentucky workers and their families showed up to testify against the bills being rushed through various committees this…
ALEC Pay to Play on Display in Washington, DC
…educational software and service companies. Waterford is a software company with out-sourced Indian coders and a domestic code-testing subsidiary. It made about $10 million in 2015, almost all from the…
ALEC’s Little Brother, ACCE, Has Big Plans for 2017
…the Executive Committee are filled by the Executive Committee itself, a process that insures ACCE maintains its ideological compass. The Executive Committee members go on retreat annually in the city…
Jeff Sessions and Trump’s White House Swamp
…CEO criticizes him publicly, sending the company’s stock into a downward spiral. Government officials in Taiwan host President Trump’s children in lavish style and grant development contracts worth hundreds of…
Revealed: The Trump Administration’s Energy Plan
…the latest science brought to bear. If the SCC were subjected to the latest science, it would certainly be much lower than what the Obama administration has been using. …
Hypocrisy and Trumpism on the Agenda as ALEC Meets in Washington, D.C.
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Koch Cash Instrumental in Key Senate Races and May Have Buoyed Trump
…from Koch-backed groups including Koch Industries, Inc., Political Action Committee (KochPAC), Freedom Partners, Americans for Prosperity, Libre Initiative, Concerned Veterans for America and Aegis Strategic. This amount does not include…
5 Things to Know about Billionaire Betsy DeVos, Trump Choice for Education
…in stock in the company, whose revenues come overwhelmingly from public school budgets. CMD has called one of the leaders of K12 the highest paid “teacher” in America. As the…
Frackers Knew: Fossil Fuel Industry Has Known since 1967 that Injection Wells Cause Earthquakes, despite Denials
…seismicity. According to emails Soraghan obtained through open records requests, OGS scientists had begun making those connections in 2010. The emails also show that in 2013 the state’s corporation commission…