Jason Rosenbaum

Via the AP: Massey Energy plans to resume extracting coal by constructing a new entrance to its Upper Big Branch mine within months, despite continuing investigations of the explosion that killed 29 men there in April, the company’s chief executive said Wednesday. Massey also wants government permission to restart two sections in the far southern [...]

The FCC has been holding closed-door meetings with big phone and cable companies like Comcast and AT&T as well as big Internet giants like Google around net neutrality. As Dereck Turner wrote the other day, the “deal” that they’re coming up with may be a big sellout.

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Elaine Marshall is running for Senate in North Carolina against incumbent Republican Richard Burr. In the latest polls, Marshall is ahead of Burr by two points, with only 25% of North Carolina voters feeling Burr is doing an “excellent” or “good” job. She’s a progressive Secretary of State in North Carolina – the first woman to be elected to statewide office – and she’s got a great shot to pick up the Senate seat in the fall.

She’s also against our current strategy in Afghanistan.

From S. Dereck Turner at Free Press.

In case you missed this weekend’s food and art, here’s what we had on the menu…

Coming up this weekend…

Today, in what I hope will become the first of a series, Josh Mull and I interviewed a challenger running for federal office who’s rethinking the war in Afghanistan.

Tommy Sowers is the Democratic candidate for Missouri’s 8th district, currently being held by Republican Jo Ann Emerson. He’s a veteran who served in Kosovo and Iraq. Yesterday, he published a widely read op-ed in the Huffington Post entitled “Who Will Pay for the Afghan Military? The Question Congress Must Answer Now.”

It’s 9 am in Vegas and the health care reform panel in the room Brasilica 1 is about to start.

I’ve just touched down in unreasonably warm Las Vegas, Nevada for the annual Netroots Nation conference.