ACLU calls arrangement “flat out unconstitutional” Between June and October 2013, Kinder Morgan, the largest energy infrastructure company in North America, paid a local Pennsylvania police department more than $50,000 to patrol a controversial pipeline upgrade. The company requested that the officers, though officially off-duty, be in uniform and marked cars. Kinder Morgan’s aim, according

BC pipeline operator slashes and defers maintenance spending. Kinder Morgan is a titan in the North American energy sector and a major player in Northwest fossil fuel shipments. The firm was the author of a on the Columbia River in Oregon, and it is lobbying heavily to in a bid to move more tar sands

By: Steve Cohen, Source: Forbes, Originally Published: 3.2.15 “The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.” -Verbal (Kevin Spacey) in The Usual Suspects The second greatest trick may be the insurance industry’s success in getting more than half the states to implement “tort reform.” That achievement was based on

I’ll never forget the all-consuming pain of hearing my twin brother had been killed. Now the Umpqua Community College victims’ loved ones are feeling that same pain. This has to stop. By: Goldie Taylor, Source: The Daily Beast. It was supposed to be a party. There was BBQ, bowls of chips, and coolers of beer.

By: Charles Fleming, Source: LA Times, Originally Published: 6.20.15 Bob Weber had a small but simple plan. He wanted to design a safer helmet for dirt bike riders. The Brea-based entrepreneur ended up disrupting the $250-million-a-year motorcycle helmet industry and igniting a debate over head injuries that could have much broader impact.

By: Tim Smith. Source: The State. COLUMBIA, SC: Stanley Brown lay on the ground on a Charleston street for about two minutes following a police chase in 2010 when he felt “something hit me in the back” and he blacked out, he later testified. Police testified an officer had made a “knee strike” aimed at Brown’s