Posts belonging to Category Politics
Posted by John A. Rakes on August 31, 2010
Bedbugs – Banned Pesticide Needed to Fight Them In this Aug. 25 photo, Delores Stewart displays bed bugs found in her home in Columbus, Ohio. A resurgence of bedbugs across the U.S. has homeowners and apartment dwellers taking desperate measures to eradicate the tenacious bloodsuckers, with some relying on dangerous outdoor pesticides and fly-by-night exterminators. [...]
Categories: Environment, Health, People, Politics
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Tags: Bedbugs, epa, Ohio, Pesticides
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Posted by John A. Rakes on February 11, 2010
President Clinton Hospitalized A source close to Former President Bill Clinton said he was “in good spirits” today after undergoing a procedure to insert two stents (stents are tiny tubes that are inserted into narrow or blocked blood vessels to help move blood through better) into one of his coronary arteries. Clinton who will be [...]
Categories: Health, News, People, Politics
| Tags: Bill Clinton, Haiti, Hospitalized, medical, President Clinton
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Posted by John A. Rakes on February 5, 2010
Uganda Proposes Anti-Gay Bill World leaders, including President Obama, are condemning Uganda for proposing a bill that would make being gay not only illegal but would call for the death penalty or life imprisonment for HIV-positive homosexuals who have sex with minors. U.S. President Barack Obama criticized the Ugandan measure while speaking at a prayer [...]
Categories: News, Politics
| Tags: Activists, Aid, Bill, Gay Rights, kenya, Laws, president obama, Tanzania, Uganda, worldwide
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Posted by John A. Rakes on December 6, 2009
Killing Fish – The American Way The ravenous Asian Carp is on the move in the Great Lakes and the Illinois Department of Natural Resources will have none of it! Illinois agencies have never before attempted to kill as many fish at one time as they are right now. By using the poison rotenone they [...]
Categories: Animals, Environment, News, Politics
| Tags: asian carp, fish, fishing, government, great lakes, illinois, invasive, michigan, native, sport
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