Petition: Justice For Marlene Braun

Release Interior OIG Report on Marlene Braun’s Death
Target:
Secretary of the Interior, Kenneth Salazar
Sponsored by:
The Living Trust of Marlene A. Braun and Friends
In this petition, we seek to get full access to the United States Department of Interior’s Office of the Inspector General’s Report on the suicide of Marlene Braun on May 2, 2005. An interim [...]

Carrizo Plain National Monument has new Draft RMP 5 years too late

This press release is just out from BLM. In February, 2004, then manager of the CPNM had just gotten approval for a draft RMP from the state offices in California. In March, Ron Huntsinger came in to destroy that plan. He wound up destroying it and the monument manager, Marlene Braun, who killed herself on [...]

Report fails to answer questions on Carrizo Plain manager’s suicide

Report fails to answer questions on suicide
posted 05/04/07

Posted on Fri, May. 04, 2007
Report fails to answer questions on Carrizo Plain manager’s suicide
David Whitney
WASHINGTON—New information in a heavily redacted investigative report by the Interior Department’s inspector general has only added to the questions surrounding the suicide of the former manager of the Carrizo Plain National Monument.It [...]

Report clears BLM office in official’s suicide

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-braun5may05,0,2697322.story?track=ntothtml
Report clears BLM office in official’s suicide
An investigation is critical of bureau staff but does not fault them in the death of Carrizo Plain National Monument Supt. Marlene Braun.
By Julie Cart
Times Staff Writer
May 5, 2007
Two years after the suicide of the superintendent of Carrizo Plain National Monument, an inspector general’s report has absolved officials in [...]

A Civil Servant’s Suicide: Responses to the Outpost 1

Because this has been copied from a cached page, the formatting is messed up. I am trying to fix it. The original Billings Outpost comments are lost, except for this cache file.
Marlene Braun’s suicide
by Kathy Hermes at 2005/08/26 05:49:35 GMT-6

Dear Mr. Wilkinson,
Thank you for your story about Marlene Braun’s death and the BLM. As her [...]

Fault Lines from the Daily Kos

Fault Lines
by KAMuston
Fri May 11, 2007 at 03:34:25 AM PST

I had begun to believe the GOP was never going to explain reality to George, and then came the breathless reports of Republican moderates finally putting their courage to the sticking place and telling Georgie-Porgie the truth. But, after six years of make-believe, I doubt the [...]

The Healthy Workplace Bill: Marlene’s Law?

This is testimony submitted by Dr. Katherine Hermes, the Trustee of the Living Trust of Marlene A. Braun, to the Connecticut Assembly’s Labor and Public Employees Committee in 2008.

Testimony provided at Senate Hearing, February [...]

Bush’s War on Civil Servants: Marlene Braun

November 28, 2005
Bush’s War On Civil Servants
Nick Turse has been putting together a list of those who have resigned or lost their job under the Bush administration because they disagreed with or refused to carry out a bankrupt Bush policy. Soon, he and Tom Englehardt plan to have an online Wall to honor those who [...]

BLM Biologist Exposes Inside View Of Agency Priorities

This is a view expressed by another employee of the BLM, written up by Todd Wilkinson, published in New West.
BLM Biologist Exposes Inside View Of Agency Priorities
By Todd Wilkinson, 3-02-06

I often say to friends when they quiz me about details in a story I’ve written: Ninety-percent of what I actually know does not find its [...]

Oil exploration firm looks at nature preserve

Oil exploration firm looks at nature preserve
With crude at $100, there’s more pressure than ever for seismic testing on San Luis Obispo grassland
By David Whitney
dwhitney@mcclatchydc.com
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Published: Sunday, Mar. 02, 2008 | Page 4A
WASHINGTON – The fight over cattle grazing at Carrizo Plain National Monument is nearing [...]