by Zak Koeske | Oct 30, 2010 | Politics
Get the Flash Player to see this content. From all over the country, people arrived in Washington on Saturday for Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert’s Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear. More than 230,000 Facebook users said they were coming. (Josh Lederman/for...
by Zak Koeske | Oct 29, 2010 | Politics
WASHINGTON – The 1963 March on Washington, where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his historic “I Have a Dream” speech, set a record for turnout with 250,000 people and was organized by a grassroots coalition of labor unions, civil rights groups, student activists...
by Zak Koeske | Oct 18, 2010 | Environment, National Security, Science + Technology
WASHINGTON — A U.S. government report released Friday finds that waste disposal methods at military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan continue to expose troops to potentially harmful emissions, despite recent legislation aimed at curbing hazardous disposal...
by Zak Koeske | Sep 28, 2010 | Politics, Science + Technology
WASHINGTON — U.S. House candidate Tim Bagwell, a Democrat looking to unseat a longtime Illinois Republican congressman, will hold a press conference Wednesday at the Illinois State Capitol to ask that his opponent, Rep. John Shimkus, call for a federal...
