The Keystone XL decision is still underway. While pipeline routes are being adjusted for this project, a similar Exxon pipeline carrying the same oil type has had a major spill in Arkansas. The “Pegasus” pipeline is now releasing thousands of barrels of oil. This example is a regular occurrence. Oil pipelines leak. What would happen if the Keystone XL pipeline sprung a similar leak on it’s original route?

By comparing the scale of the Keystone XL …

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A new piece of legislation, if passed, will penalize low-income families in Tennessee by reducing their welfare benefits if their child performs poorly in school.

Sponsored by Sen. Stacey Campfield (R-Knoxville) and Rep. Vance Dennis (R-Savannah), the bill “requires the reduction of Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) payments for parents or caretakers of TANF recipients whose children fail to maintain satisfactory progress in school.”

The bill (Senate Bill 132, House Bill 261) applies to low-income families, …

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HARTMANN: It is Brunch with Bernie. Senator Sanders welcome to the program. A lot going on in the Senate?

SANDERS: We will introduce, or rather, re-introduce legislation to break up the largest banks in this country. Thom it is my view that we’re never going to see the middle class in this country expand, we’re never going to see poverty go down, unless we deal …

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Nearly one in five high school age boys in the United States and 11 percent of school-age children over all have received a medical diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, according to new data from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

These rates reflect a marked rise over the last decade and could fuel growing concern among many doctors that the A.D.H.D. diagnosis and its medication are overused in American children.

The figures showed …

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