High Country News http://www.hcn.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 7. Why did Norton really leave Interior? http://www.hcn.org/issues/327/16450 If outgoing Interior Secretary Gale Norton didn’t receive a push out the door, she certainly deserved one after her involvement in the sleazy Jack Abramoff scandal No publisher Jon Margolis Native Americans Gambling Appointed Officials Gale Norton Interior Department Jack Abramoff U.S. Cabinet Paul O’Neill John Snow Treasury Department George W. Bush political scandals political corruption Colin Powell John McCain Senate Indian Affairs Committee Republican Party Bush White 2011-11-21T23:46:45Z News Article Will Montanans reject their bagman? http://www.hcn.org/issues/330/16543 Even Montanans critical of Sen. Conrad Burns admit he’s a genius at bringing home the pork – a fact that may make it harder for his Democratic challenger, Jon Tester, in the November election. No publisher Ray Ring State University pork funding NASA Jon Tester Democratic Party Elections Gary Strobel federal money political scandals Tax Foundation Montana Montana politics Nat Conrad Burns Jerry Calvert Party political appropriations Republican Jack Abramoff The 2010-10-26T22:26:06Z News Article Two weeks in the West http://www.hcn.org/issues/349/17079 On the messy bureaucratic soap opera As Interior Turns, the cast keeps changing, and getting indicted; Good Samaritans need to able to clean up old mines without getting burned; foreign countries drive Western mining boom; and data about mining No publisher Jonathan Thompson Italia Federici Washington scandals Interior Department mining pollution 1872 Mining Law J. Steven Griles Jack Abramoff EPA 2010-07-29T23:42:49Z News Article As Interior Turns http://www.hcn.org/issues/40.23/as-interior-turns During the last eight years, Bush’s Interior Department has been embroiled in enough corruption, sex and scandal to fuel several soap operas. No publisher Jonathan Thompson Minerals Management Service Julie MacDonald Political corruption Gale Norton Bush Interior Department J. Steven Griles Jack Abramoff Political scandals 2010-02-05T08:50:38Z News Article The many problems of Richard Pombo http://www.hcn.org/issues/316/16126 California Republican Rep. Richard Pombo is having a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad year No publisher Jon Margolis Congress Richard Pombo political scandals House Resources Committee Jack Abramoff John Siegenthaler Wikipedia Charles Hurwitz FDIC savings and loan bailout Mashpee Wampanoag tribe tribal recognition Native American Affairs Subcommittee Pete M 2010-02-05T08:57:01Z News Article In Washington, the most outrageous sins are legal http://www.hcn.org/issues/311/15952 Given the incestuous nature of politics and lobbying in Washington, D.C., and the corruption inherent in the gambling industry, the rise of an opportunist like Jack Abramoff was all but inevitable No publisher Jon Margolis Native Americans Gambling Congress Council for Republican Environmental Advocacy Gale Norton Grover Norquist Italia Federici Jack Abramoff John McCain Indian Affairs Committee Americans for Tax Reform Indian casinos American Indians Jena Band of Choctaws Coushatta Tribe Bureau 2010-02-05T08:31:58Z News Article Pombo's power grows — and so do the scandals http://www.hcn.org/issues/302/15658 Since Richard Pombo took over the House Resources Committee in 2003, the number of scandals around him has steadily grown No publisher Matt Weiser Congress Richard Pombo House of Representatives House Resources Committee political scandals Tom DeLay Jack Abramoff Mariana Islands sweatshops Rich PAC House Franking Committee Public Citizen Brian Kennedy Gale Norton nepotism L.A. Times 2010-02-05T09:25:39Z News Article