12 results for "Rob Hotakainen"
With new momentum to legalize, pot backers aim high
Friday, April 5, 2013 at 12:54 PMAs one of the nation’s top marijuana lobbyists, Allen St. Pierre has come to believe in his product, which is why he tries to smoke high-potency, one-toke weed every night if possible.
For first time, majority of Americans back legal pot
Thursday, April 4, 2013 at 1:55 PMJust five months after Washington state and Colorado voted to legalize marijuana for recreational use, a poll released Thursday found that a majority of Americans now agree and say it should not be illegal to smoke the drug.
Sen. Patty Murray seeks new calm in partisan budget fight
Thursday, March 21, 2013 at 2:58 PMAfter getting word in December that she’d be heading the Senate Budget Committee in 2013, Democrat Patty Murray picked up the check when she had breakfast with Republican Rep. Paul Ryan in the Senate Dining Room.
Sen. Patty Murray seeks new calm in partisan budget fight
Thursday, March 21, 2013 at 1:13 PMAfter getting word in December that she’d be heading the Senate Budget Committee in 2013, Democrat Patty Murray picked up the check when she had breakfast with Republican Rep. Paul Ryan in the Senate Dining Room.
Climate emerges as hot issue in Columbia River Treaty talks with Canada
Friday, March 15, 2013 at 9:00 PMWhen Eisenhower signed the treaty with Canada as one of his last official acts in 1961, global warming did not rank as a public concern. Fifty-two years later, it’s a different story. The treaty created a system of dams for flood control a...
Frustrated Sen. Murkowski takes heat as Alaska tribes get left out of new domestic violence law
Friday, March 15, 2013 at 1:30 PMAcross the nation, Indian tribes cheered when President Barack Obama signed a new Violence Against Women Act last week, expanding the power of tribal courts to try non-Indians for crimes of domestic violence committed on reservations.
New EPA leader sure to draw fire as environmental fights intensify
Monday, February 4, 2013 at 11:43 AMAs Obama prepares to choose a new leader for the EPA for his second term, any unanimity on environmental issues is long gone on Capitol Hill, where the agency has become a favorite whipping boy for those who fear it has too much power. Whoever g...
30 years after war, Argentina, Britain spar again over Falklands
Wednesday, January 9, 2013 at 12:00 AMIn remote waters of the south Atlantic, Kevin Kilmartin counts on big cruise ships to deliver tourists to the Falkland Islands, hoping to lure them to his 35,000-acre sheep and cattle ranch and take them on a safari adventure to his very own wil...
U.S. helps Florida tomato growers, angers Mexico
Friday, September 28, 2012 at 12:00 AMRejecting warnings that it could ignite a trade war, the Obama administration on Thursday said it planned to change its tomato-trading rules with Mexico, siding with Florida growers who complained that a glut of imports threatened to shut down t...
Pacific tariff talks raise U.S. concerns on jobs
Wednesday, September 19, 2012 at 12:00 AMLEESBURG, Va. – With 1,350 employees in its five U.S. factories, New Balance is proud that it still produces 7 million pairs of shoes each year at its plants in Maine and Massachusetts, the last major athletic footwear company that still ha...
