Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 1 year ago.
You'll have to be a subscriber to read the SJ-R online story about two tied Sangamon County elections that were decided by cutting a deck of cards. The story includes a quote from Joe Aiello reassuring the public that the "retabulation" of 12 randomly ch...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 1 year ago.
The Sierra Club/CWLP clean energy agreement was featured on Chicago public television station WTTW CH11 as part of a four part series focusing on energy . The episode aired Monday night and will be shown again the week of May 14. I missed it but I think...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 1 year ago.
Its a slight annoyance that I have to let people know that someone is impersonating me on the SJ-R comment board. I did not make the first online comment on this article. I don't think I've written it on my blog, but I've said before that the SJ-R shoul...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 1 year ago.
Some nations, along with Marxists and anarchists around the world, are celebrating International Workers Day today. Its ironic that it goes unnoticed in Illinois since events in Chicago were the impetus for declaring the holiday.Four Chicago anarchists f...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 1 year ago.
The SJ-R has an article today about the new "Seven Wonders of Illinois" that were selected by the public in an online vote. Five out of the seven were natural areas and none were Lincoln sites.This highlights that Springfield, for all of its historic site...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 1 year ago.
One of the things I love about Presidential primaries is that it gives the opportunity for the discussion of ideas that are often brushed aside in the narrow political debate that happens in the corporate media. I'm going to give a first impression of the...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 1 year ago.
I stopped by UIS today to see the Tibetan Monks of the Drepung Loseling Monastery work on their sand painting. I've seen it done in videos before but never in person. Its pretty impressive. Go see them in the lobby of the PAC building from 10:30AM to 6:30...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 1 year ago.
There have been some exciting Earth Month events so far and I've got two more I want to encourage people to attend.Tonight (Tuesday) Becki "Good at Fighting" Clayborn, the Regional Representative with the Sierra Clubs Midwest Clean Energy Campaign, will ...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 1 year ago.
I know this is getting posted on a lot of blogs but its too good to pass up. This is from the White House Corespondents' Dinner on Saturday.Pretty soon I'll get around to writing about a couple earth week events and Greenfest in Chicago. On a side note, d...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 1 year ago.
No more than 100 votes decided the races for Alderman in Wards 4 & 8. I hope the losing candidate in one of those wards will ask for a hand recount because that hasn't happened since the adoption of the new voting machines.Every time I bring up the new v...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 1 year ago.
People always complain about dirty campaign tactics but some politicians will continue to sling mud for one reason: it works. We saw proof of that yesterday when negative push-polling was used against several candidates for Alderman who lost their race. ...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 1 year ago.
I'll encourage people one last time to vote in the Springfield city elections tomorrow. If you haven't already, be sure to check out the responses to the Sierra Club candidate questionnaire on environmental issues. Voter turn-out in local elections is a...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 1 year ago.
About 20 people braved the cold and rain Saturday to take part in Springfield's Step It Up rally. It was part of a national day of action that included over 1,300 events to promote reductions in carbon emissions.A friend of mine took this picture at the e...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 1 year ago.
The Illinois Times feature story this week is on pollution from coal power plants with a focus on the CWLP/Sierra Club agreement about the new power plant in Springfield.As much as I like being on the cover, there are at least half a dozen other people wh...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 1 year ago.
The State Journal-Register published a letter to the editor today from myself and the other members of the political committee for the local Sierra Club Group. Here it is for those who don't get the paper:The Sangamon Valley Group of the Sierra Club woul...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 1 year ago.
I started writing a comment in response to a post Greg made at CES Blog and when I saw how long it was getting, I decided to make it a post here.Greg cites an interesting article in The New Yorker about studies that claim most voters base their decisions ...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 1 year ago.
There are a few down-ballot offices up for election this year that get less attention, but yesterday the SJ-R had a couple stories on candidates for School Board and SMEAA Board.One of the more interesting races is for SMEAA Subdistrict 1. SMEAA oversees ...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 1 year ago.
I've read about the ways in which the FBI was used to harass political dissidents during the Vietnam War, particularly during the Nixon administration. I doubt anyone heavily involved in the peace movement will be surprised that some of the same tactics a...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 1 year ago.
Ward 8 Springfield City Council candidate Kris Theilen recently turned in his response to the Sierra Club candidate questionnaire, with apologies for being late. It will be added to the Sangamon Valley Group's website along with any others who respond be...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 1 year ago.
In case you missed it, be sure to read today's guest editorial in the State Journal Register by Eric Grimm. He does a good job of explaining some of the science behined global warming and calling out conservative personalities that speak on behalf of comp...
Spfldbloggers is a collection of blogs from the Springfield, Illinois area. Every ten minutes the site fetches RSS feeds from blogs in the blog roll and then stores a summary of blog posts.
If you are from the Springfield area, have a blog, and want to be included go to the Sign Up page.
If you are from the Springfield area, have a blog, and want to be included go to the Sign Up page.
Springfield's public access station.
See Springfield before and afterwards. Rollover snapshots of what used to be Springfield.
Springfield's local newspaper.
Avg number of posts per day from the community: 37.6
