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Judge lets Kansas to join dispute over tribal land
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - A federal magistrate judge has allowed Kansas to join the fight over the Wyandotte Nation's claim to Park City land where the tribe wants to build a casino. U.S. Magistrate Judge David Waxse ruled on Thursday that the state has a...
Tags: Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Judges
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Historians fret fate of War of 1812 sites
On a grassy hill a mile west of the Patuxent River, historian Ralph Eshelman can see the same bucolic view of fields and placid water anxious British soldiers likely saw when they landed in the summer of 1814 — the first stop in their campaign to...Tags: Kandahar Massacre (2012), Barbara Lee, Interior Policy, Rush Holt, Queen Anne's County
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Sacrificing the desert to save the Earth
Construction cranes rise like storks 40 stories above the Mojave Desert. In their midst, the "power tower" emerges, wrapped in scaffolding and looking like a multistage rocket.
Clustered nearby are hangar-sized assembly buildings, looming berms of sand...Tags: Disneyland Park, Business Enterprises, National Parks, Property, Natural Resource Industry
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Retired federal judge to represent Westlands Water District
GreenspaceFormer U.S. District Court Judge Oliver Wanger has agreed to represent an influential irrigation district that frequented his courtroom.... -
Government can spur a slumping economy by rebuilding the nation's infrastructure
America is at its best when our guiding principles of free enterprise and giving people a helping hand work together. The free enterprise system created our national wealth and employment opportunities. However, free enterprise also eliminated 3 million...Tags: Employment Opportunities, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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How Dunker Church was saved
The Washington County Historical Society presented the Antietam National Battlefield Park with two significant gifts. In the 1950s, purchase of the Dunker Church and gifting of the church and the Burnside Bridge were made possible through the work of...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, National Parks, Sociology, American Civil War (1861-1865), U.S. Congress
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Imperial County denied lawsuit with feds over QSA
Staff WriterImperial County’s case against the federal government over transferring water to the coast won’t be heard in the United States District Court. A federal court judge ruled late last week that the county and its Air Pollution Control District...Tags: Trials, Crime, Law and Justice, National Government, Government, Medical Procedures and Tests
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Gamesa halts Shaffer Mountain wind plans
Daily American Staff WriterMost of the signs, scattered in lawns and on porches from Reels Corner to Windber, read: “Stop Gamesa From Destroying This Mountain.” “This Mountain” refers to Shaffer Mountain. And though “destroy” is a word that...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Natural Resources, Companies and Corporations, Endangered Species, Science and Technology
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Public meeting on Civil War Railroad Trail project set for June 21 in Boonsboro
Officials will hold a public information meeting on the proposed Civil War Railroad Trail project that would connect Hagerstown to Weverton, in the southern portion of Washington County. The meeting has been scheduled for Thursday, June 21, at 7 p.m....Tags: Natural Resources, Energy Resources, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Railway Transportation, Natural Resource Industry
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Federal government announces payment for Flight 93 property
Daily American Staff WriterWould you like to pay only $8.68 an acre in property taxes? That is what the federal government will pay in the 2012 Payments in Lieu of Taxes program for the 2,985-acre Flight 93 National Memorial. Commissioner John Vatavuk said it is a small...Tags: Politics, Natural Resources, Somerset County (Pennsylvania), Land Resources, Interior Policy
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Has Obama stifled oil production?
In my Sunday column, I noted that U.S. oil production and drilling have risen under President Obama. But some people, including some readers, say that's misleading because, they claim, the increase has occurred on private lands, while production has...Tags: Natural Resources, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Barack Obama, Land Resources, Petroleum Industry
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Imperial County to appeal federal court QSA ruling
Staff WriterJust a couple of weeks after Imperial County’s case was dismissed against the federal government, the local agency has announced it plans to continue the fight. The county and its air district will appeal the April 6 decision to dismiss its lawsuit...Tags: Politics, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Interior Policy, National Government, Government
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