Where there's a Will, there's a way
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 8 months ago.
A good mom sent me this picture of her "lil tree hugger."A few people asked me for ideas about what to do on Earth Day. News outlets usually give some good tips about recycling or things you can do around the house. My suggestion is to call or write an el...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 8 months ago.
Our Brand is Crisis is one of my favorite political documentaries and I've thought back to it often during the Democratic Primary. It follows James Carville's political consulting firm to Bolivia where they run the campaign of the centrist, pro-free trad...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 8 months ago.
Beck put out a video a while back for his last single Timebomb. Somehow I missed it. This is what happens in Springfield. You don't hear about new and interesting things. It has an environmental and political message of some kind. It lives up to Beck...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 8 months ago.
The Illinois Times has an article this week that gives a good overview of the legal battles over coal fire power plants in Illinois, including the more controversial proposals and the ones claiming to be clean. I get email updates about all the proposed ...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 8 months ago.
The earthquake just woke me up. I think its going to take me a while to fall asleep again so I might as well write. It took a little while to show up on the USGS website. Apparently its a fairly big one but far enough Southeast to not be too bad here. ...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 8 months ago.
I was in the ugly Stratton Office Building dropping off Clean Car Act post cards when I heard a familiar song coming from one of the legislative offices. I stuck my head in the door and someone was watching the Pirates and Emperors video from my blog pos...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 8 months ago.
There was a good crowd of at least 50 people who showed up to the Earth Month movies last night. One of the messages of The 11th Hour is that we need courageous leadership to tackle the climate change problem so I was lucky to have two leaders on environ...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 8 months ago.
During the Republican primary for the 18th Congressional District Aaron Schock got a lot of criticism for suggesting the idea of sending nuclear weapons to Taiwan. I was more shocked by his suggestion that United States covertly fund "Freedom Fighters" a...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 8 months ago.
I've been predicting that at some point during the campaign a Southern member of Congress was going to call Barack Obama "boy." I thought it would happen in the middle of the general election but it popped up quicker than I expected.'That boy's finger do...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 8 months ago.
The Illinois Sierra Club has a new section on its website for the Illinois Clean Car Bill. If you click on the "Take Action" button it leads to a page where you can send an email message to your State Representative and Senator. I know I've asked people...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 8 months ago.
The Illinois Times was cool enough to highlight this month's Liberty Brew & View in the Night & Day section. I've been hearing from a lot of people who plan to be there so I think it will be a big crowd this Tuesday. Some people are telling me that they ...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 9 months ago.
My best looking reader pointed out that it's the two year anniversary of my blog. My first post was April 8, 2006. I forgot I've been writing for so long. I think its much better now than when it started out as a campaign blog exclusively about county i...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 9 months ago.
There's a new website for the drive to take action on climate change in Illinois. The Illinois Climate Action Network website has up to date information about bills in the Illinois General Assembly and fact sheets on several proposals. It's a joint proj...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 9 months ago.
Koyaanisqatsi is not well known but its influence reaches far, especially in the film world. In popular culture, its wikipedia entry lists references in three different Simpsons episodes. Clips are also included in a music video for Hard to Explain by h...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 9 months ago.
If you've never been to the Civil Rights Museum in Memphis then you're really missing out on something. Its housed in the Lorraine Motel where Martin Luther King was assassinated. Walking through is a moving history of King and the struggle.The climax o...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 9 months ago.
The fact that Fox State Television is shameless propaganda is old news but they have a video on their website where Father Michael Pfleger suggests Fox would have acted as the pharisees by constantly replaying quotes from Jesus out of context to make him ...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 9 months ago.
Below is a trailer for the first movie in the April Earth Month double feature, The 11th Hour. This global warming documentary is produced and narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio. It was released in 2007 and this will be the first public screening in Springfi...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 9 months ago.
How do you know when someone under public pressure is backtracking merely as an act of political damage control It's when they have to tell you that they aren't doing it for political reasons under pressure. For example:Harris said rescinding the raise ...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 9 months ago.
One of the top three bills environmental groups pushed for during their citizen lobby day at the State Capitol Wednesday is the Clean Car Act. The bill would have Illinois join 13 other states in adopting a higher standard for vehicle emissions, which ar...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 9 months ago.
I give the State Journal-Register grief sometimes for going easy on certain local political leaders and the Republican county board, but I have to give them credit for surprising me over the past few days. I didn't expect them to publish a highly critica...
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