by Emily Hoerner & Phoebe Tollefson | Sep 11, 2015 | Politics, Washington Watchdogs
WASHINGTON — Daniel Moughon, an insurance salesman from Fort Worth, Texas, said he knew long shot Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina was special after listening to one of her early Iowa speeches. He’s donated to her 10 times since then. Moughon is...
by Dean DeChiaro | Aug 20, 2015 | Politics, Washington Watchdogs
WASHINGTON – In January, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie delivered his annual State of the State address before the legislature in Trenton. Since the governor took office, there had been signs of improvement in Camden, a city just across the Delaware River from...
by Xiaolan Tang | Jun 27, 2015 | Washington Watchdogs
BY: XIAOLAN TANG WASHINGTON – Twenty-four hours after a magnitude 7.8-earthquake struck Nepal on April 25th at 11:26 a.m. NST, a disaster-response team at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration started making conference calls to colleagues around the world...
by Siyao Long | Jun 27, 2015 | Environment, Science + Technology, Topics, Washington Watchdogs
WASHINGTON — New advances in satellite mapping data could soon help analyze and fight droughts in California and the Southwestern U.S. by tracking the amount of water locked in soil. But problems in the design of the NASA program have caused temporary delays. NASA’s...
by Yuan Gu | Jun 26, 2015 | Washington Watchdogs
WASHINGTON – For 40 years, the United States has sent Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) into orbit, where they are producing images every 15 minutes in geosynchronous orbit, approximately 22,300 miles above Earth. They provide cloud, land, and...
by Yinmeng Liu | Jun 26, 2015 | Washington Watchdogs
WASHINGTON – It is green, slick and is usually clustered in major waterways. It has an adverse effect on human health and could be fatal to fish and dogs. Last year, it contamined the water so badly in Lake Erie that 400,000 people in Toledo, Ohio, were banned from...
