Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 1 year ago.
I voted early today at the County Clerk's office. I saw a story about it on TV 20 News last week but I don't think early voting will catch on in Sangamon County until there are additional voting locations besides the County Courthouse and there's a bigge...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 1 year ago.
I've been watching my site traffic at statcounter but yesterday I decided to check the more sophisticated trackers provided by my web server company. It turns out that for a variety of reasons, mostly related to the blog being a subdomain, statcounter was...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 1 year ago.
It looks like Springfield is going to get more attention for the agreement between CWLP and the Sierra Club. A similar agreement just happened between the Sierra Club and Kansas City Power & Light Co. A Washington Post article about that agreement also ...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 1 year ago.
I think last night's Sierra Club meeting was one of the most exciting we've had. Sierra Club State Director Jack Darin spent the first half hour talking about issues in the Illinois General Assembly. Some items are stalled but it sounds like this is a v...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 1 year ago.
The results are in! The following links in this post will take you to the responses Springfield candidates gave to the Sierra Club candidate questionnaire. The candidates have also been invited to make a statement about their views on environmental issues...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 1 year ago.
Greg Claxton wrote today's guest editorial in the SJ-R about what the future might hold for energy production and conservation in Springfield. One advantage of having a publicly owned utility is that citizens can have a larger role in determining how the...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 1 year ago.
Both guys at the Just Two Guys blog posted about their dream of minor league baseball returning to Springfield and the need for a new stadium, which was followed by supportive posts from Dave and the 26th Man. This is something I think about every time I ...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 1 year ago.
The novel 1984 describes Newspeak as "the only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year."
"The purpose of Newspeak was not only to provide a medium of expression for the world-view and mental habits proper to the devotees of Ingsoc, ...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 1 year ago.
The State Journal Register published today a letter to the editor I wrote. In most major cities it would be considered a non-controversial, conventional sentiment. In Springfield, with our Libertarian attitudes about development, its enough to get me labe...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 1 year ago.
One project I'm helping with is the local Sierra Club's candidate questionnaire and forum for Springfield Alderman and Mayor candidates. The Sierra Club isn't endorsing candidates in the city elections so no one should interpret what I write as an officia...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 1 year ago.
I've given so much grief to the SJ-R over their opinion page I thought I should point out that it was finally looking more balanced last Friday. They kept Ted Rall, who wrote a column supporting wounded troops, and Ann Coulter, who was looking for anyone...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 1 year ago.
I didn't expect the Ann Coulter thing to become a big debate and I admit I got a little tired of it a few days ago. But, sometimes I just can't step away from a good argument. Blevins Blog writes a good post about the issue and gives a greatest hits of ...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 1 year ago.
Last night I attended the Springfield utilities committee meeting for the presentation of the proposed wind power contract. It's covered in the SJ-R here. Greg over at CES blog (which was featured on TV20 News last night!) was there as well and he has a ...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 1 year ago.
One group I'm involved with locally is Clean Energy Springfield (CES) and I recently set up their new blog and website. I just edited and posted something to CESblog that I previously wrote here, but in the future I'll write content about environmental i...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 1 year ago.
The State Journal-Register announced its decision to keep Ann Coulter after printing a Ted Rall column defending Coulter's right to "free speech." I have never questioned Ann Coulter's right to be a bigoted demagogue. She can say and write whatever she l...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 1 year ago.
If, and this is a big if, the Illini basketball team is lucky enough to get past the first round of the NCAA Men's basketball tournament to face the outstanding SIU Salukis in round 2, my prediction is (said in my best impersonation of the Saturday Night ...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 1 year ago.
In the State Journal-Register editorial they make an argument I was expecting because its frequently repeated by news outlets. The argument goes that we've got people on both sides complaining about us, so we must be doing OK, somewhere in between.Beside...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 1 year ago.
It was nice to see this blog named in the State Journal-Register editorial today, especially after I've written two blog posts within the last week that are pretty critical of the paper. I complain about the news industry often but my most frequent critic...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 1 year ago.
After her bigoted slur of John Edwards, newspapers around the nation are dropping Ann Coulter's column and advertises are removing themselves from her website. The 11th Hour beat me to writing that the Daily Chronicle in DeKalb dropped her column and wro...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 1 year ago.
The Illinois Times has a short article about the survey the Sierra Club recently mailed to candidates for Springfield Mayor and City Council. The local Sangamon Valley Group of the Sierra Club is working to bring environmental issues to the forefront in ...
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