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Texas Fertilizer Plant Fell Through Regulatory Cracks - New York Times
New York Times
Texas Fertilizer Plant Fell Through Regulatory Cracks
New York Times
Many safety decisions — including moves in recent years to build homes, schools and a nursing home not far from the decades-old plant — were left to local officials who often did not have the expertise to assess the dangers. And the gaps in the ...
HUFFPOST HILL - Jeb Bush Forced To Raise Own Children - Huffington Post - Huffington Post
HUFFPOST HILL - Jeb Bush Forced To Raise Own Children - Huffington Post
Huffington Post
House Democrats made clear they would largely oppose the bill, which meant it would have needed almost all Republican votes to secure a 218-vote majority, something that has proven difficult for Boehner given the GOP's slim majority margin. The episode ...
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Is Independent Media Beginning to Replace the Mainstream? - PolicyMic - PolicyMic
PolicyMic
Is Independent Media Beginning to Replace the Mainstream? - PolicyMic
PolicyMic
In addition to the Romney story, another good example is this joint Texas Observer/Nation Investigative Fund piece about the drug war in Mexico's Juarez Valley. - Meanwhile Colorlines, published by the Applied Research Center, ... This process "got its ...
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Red Blue Realty Presents Tips for Handling a Home Inspection on Los Angeles ... - DigitalJournal.com (press release)
Red Blue Realty Presents Tips for Handling a Home Inspection on Los Angeles ...
DigitalJournal.com (press release)
Los Angeles homes for sale all have one thing in common: each residence will need to under go a home inspection before escrow concludes. While the idea of an inspector checking out every detail of a property can be stressful, in reality, the ...
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7 charged with smuggling fish bladders to China - KMPH Fox 26
7 charged with smuggling fish bladders to China
KMPH Fox 26
President Barack Obama, U.S. Sen. John Cornyn and Texas Gov. Rick Perry are to speak at a memorial to victims killed in a Central Texas fertilizer plant blast.More >>. President Barack Obama, U.S. Sen. John Cornyn and Texas Gov. Rick Perry are to speak ...
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A Radical, Realistic Response to the Texas Plant Explosion - The New Republic
A Radical, Realistic Response to the Texas Plant Explosion
The New Republic
SUBSCRIBE NOW · Go Home A Radical, Realistic Response to the Texas Plant Explosion ... The EPA could simply have those third-party inspectors collect additional information for the EPA, and accept their reports in lieu of conducting their own inspections.
Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky Home Inspections - Neary Inspections ... - PR Web (press release)
Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky Home Inspections - Neary Inspections ...
PR Web (press release)
A professional and detailed home inspection is an important first step in the home buying process. Having a trusted and experienced inspection company is always recommended. Analysis of the grounds & grading, exterior, foundation, basement/crawlspace, ...
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CNN Washington AM Note - CNN (blog)
CNN Washington AM Note
CNN (blog)
The report from the special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program said the Treasury Department's Home Affordable Modification Program, or HAMP, has failed to ensure that mortgage reductions are sustainable. Home loans modified in the ...
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Investigators rule out some causes in West explosion - Dallas Morning News
Dallas Morning News
Investigators rule out some causes in West explosion
Dallas Morning News
WEST — As Texas lawmakers and safety advocates debated the need for greater scrutiny of industrial operations, investigators on Tuesday narrowed their search for clues in the fatal blast at this town's 10-acre fertilizer plant. Assistant State Fire ...
Five Tips to Profitably Sell Your Home this Spring - Fox Business
Five Tips to Profitably Sell Your Home this Spring
Fox Business
Glen Gill, broker and owner at Landmark Properties in Sugar Land, Texas, says three things sell a home in any season: location, condition and price. "If one of those three isn't good, your home may not sell, but you can always compensate ... "If you ...
Workplace safety then (1911, NYC) and now (2013, West, Texas) - Philly.com (blog)
Philly.com (blog)
Workplace safety then (1911, NYC) and now (2013, West, Texas)
Philly.com (blog)
A fire burns at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas after an explosion on April 17. (APMichael Ainsworth/The ... As former U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis noted in a Memorial Day speech in 2012 “Every day in America, 12 people go to work and never come ...
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NM slaughterhouse ground zero in horse debate - Burleson Star
NM slaughterhouse ground zero in horse debate
Burleson Star
ROSWELL, N.M. (AP) About five miles from this southeastern New Mexico town's famed UFO museum, tucked between dairy farms, is a nondescript metal building that could be home to any number of small agricultural businesses. But Valley Meat Co. is no ...
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West students return to classes and a comforting routine - Dallas Morning News
Dallas Morning News
West students return to classes and a comforting routine
Dallas Morning News
After days of coping with the aftermath of a fertilizer plant explosion, the community began working toward some normalcy thanks in large part to the help of many Texas districts donating buildings, supplies, maintenance crew, food, technology and ...
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Residents call for clean up of The Lakes Golf Course - Ahwatukee Foothills News
Residents call for clean up of The Lakes Golf Course
Ahwatukee Foothills News
When Ahwatukee Foothills resident Ruth Roberts purchased her home more than six years ago she was excited to look out her back window and have a view of a beautiful green golf course. Today, her view is of browned grass and a pile of dead tree ...
West Fertilizer Plant's Hazards Eluded Regulators For Nearly 30 Years - Huffington Post
National Geographic
West Fertilizer Plant's Hazards Eluded Regulators For Nearly 30 Years
Huffington Post
WEST, Texas -- Long before it captured national headlines as the scene of a lethal industrial explosion, the fertilizer plant on the edge of this central Texas town had been a community fixture, a crucial supply depot for farmers and ranchers who ...
West Fertilizer Co.'s environmental compliance problems go back decadesDallas Morning News
Safety rules limited for small fertilizer plantsTheNewsTribune.com
Owner Of West Fertilizer Plant Says His “Heart Is Broken With Grief” - KBTX.comKBTX
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The Ensign Group Announces Settlement With US Department of Justice - GlobeNewswire (press release)
The Ensign Group Announces Settlement With US Department of Justice
GlobeNewswire (press release)
MISSION VIEJO, Calif., April 22, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Ensign Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:ENSG), the parent company of the Ensign™ group of skilled nursing, rehabilitative care services, home health, hospice care, assisted living and urgent care ...
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The Boston Marathon and a Texas Fertilizer Plant: A Tale of Two Explosions - TakePart
TakePart
The Boston Marathon and a Texas Fertilizer Plant: A Tale of Two Explosions
TakePart
Though coverage of the Texas explosion played distant second fiddle to the Boston manhunt, an excellent investigation by Bloomberg News revealed that the fertilizer plant, despite every day handling many times more ammonium nitrate than was used in the ...
A tale of two citiesWorld Socialist Web Site
After huge explosion, projectiles litter badly damaged West, TexasMcClatchy Washington Bureau
Safety rules limited for small fertilizer plantsTheNewsTribune.com
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Two Most Wanted Fugitives Arrested Last Week - KBTX.com - KBTX
Two Most Wanted Fugitives Arrested Last Week - KBTX.com
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Multiple law enforcement agencies were involved in the investigation and capture, including the U.S. Marshals Service Lone Star Fugitive Task Force, the Texas Department of Public Safety, Texas Department of Criminal Justice Office of Inspector General ...
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Flight delays pile up Monday after FAA budget cuts - The Advocate
Flight delays pile up Monday after FAA budget cuts
The Advocate
The FAA has also furloughed other critical employees including airline and airport safety inspectors. The country's airlines and some lawmakers have suggested the White House is causing misery for fliers to put pressure on Republicans in Congress to ...
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Veterans Administration grant allows Air Force vet to remain at his home - Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Veterans Administration grant allows Air Force vet to remain at his home
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
BLUEFIELD — When the inspector from the Veterans Administration completed his on-site visit and gave his approval on the project that transformed their Shenandoah Avenue home into a handicap accessible residence, Linda Thomas was so pleased that she ...
