How’s this for never giving up? Eighty-three year old Edith Windsor is taking her fight for equality all the way to the Supreme Court: The crux of her lawsuit is that after living with Thea Spyer for more than four decades, and having a marriage recognized as legal in the state of New York, Windsor… Read more »
Posts Tagged: land
Ed Schultz Insists He Isn’t Headed To ‘No Man’s Land,’ Praises Replacement Hayes In Final Primetime Farewell
MSNBC’s Ed Schultz used the final moments of his final weekday primetime show to address his move to weekend afternoons and welcome his replacement Chris Hayes with open arms. Schultz’s farewell message was mostly positive, though he did work in an ornery dig at POLITICO writer Dylan Byers, who wrote that Schultz’s new time slot… Read more »
George P. Bush running for Texas land commissioner
George Prescott Bush filed the official paperwork Tuesday to run for Texas land commissioner next year, hoping to use a little-known but powerful post to continue his family’s political dynasty in one of the country’s most-conservative states. Source: FOXNews.com
Open thread for night owls: Oil and gas leases now found on six percent of all U.S. land
Amy Mall blogs a National Resources Defense Council analysis that says nearly six percent of total U.S. land is being leased by 70 of the largest oil and gas companies, including 38.5 million acres of public land: According to a new NRDC analysis, at the end of 2011, seventy of the largest oil and gas… Read more »