Koch-backed group fights paid sick leave laws as flu sweeps US

This week marks 25 years since Bill Clinton signed the Family and Medical Leave Act, which gives US workers the Continue reading →

Days After Pruitt Becomes EPA Head, Newly Released Emails Show His Ties to Koch Bros. & Energy Firms

Thousands of pages of newly released emails reveal how EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt closely collaborated with oil, coal and gas Continue reading →

Solar Power runs into political roadblock in America, the Republican Party’s allegiance to Fossil Fuels

By Robert A. Vella America is a place of great treasures, and one of its most valuable is millions of Continue reading →

Solar blowback hits Reid’s Nevada

Harry Reid’s home state dealt a lethal blow Tuesday to rooftop solar power — the latest skirmish of a nationwide Continue reading →

Funding From Exxon or Koch Brothers Gave Deniers a Megaphone in Climate Change Debate

A Yale researcher set out to discover how much impact mega-wealthy corporations and individuals have had on the American public’s Continue reading →

FSU Students Power Wash The Kochs While Exposing Possible IRS Violations

By Leslie Salzillo In 2014, I published two stories about the surreptitious attempts by the Koch brothers to bribe their Continue reading →

Examining the dark philosophical roots of Rand Paul’s libertarianism

By Robert A. Vella Kentucky Senator Rand Paul is running for President in 2016.  He is definitely not an establishment Continue reading →

Republican legislator to Kochs’ AFP: ‘You people serve absolutely no purpose’

Republican frustration over the Koch brothers’ rule is expanding beyond Montana, all the way across the country to Florida, where Continue reading →