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Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 4 years ago.
Ray LaHood decided to grace us with another term in Congress. I understand that politicians have ambition but this is the second election in a row that LaHood was publicly looking for an exit strategy from Congress. Why doesn't he pull the trigger It do...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 4 years ago.
The Sierra Club is filing a legal appeal to the issuance of a permit to build a coal power plant in Taylorville. This is going to upset some people. The company building it will cry and moan about how this is a "clean coal" environmentally friendly powe...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 4 years ago.
Shortly before the war in Iraq began George Bush visited Knoxville Tennessee where I was living at the time. I went with a group of friends to an anti-Bush rally that was kept in a "free-speech zone" far enough away from Bush that he was sure to never see...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 4 years ago.
Ok, who watched the Live Earth concerts I saw some of it online where you could switch between concerts in city to city. Very cool.The Foo Fighters put on an excellent show and Melissa Ethridge put a lot of passion into her performance. The musicians wer...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 4 years ago.
There's ongoing contentious debate over a proposal to employ destructive longwall mining practices in Montgomery County Illinois, which includes Hillsboro and Litchfield, despite strong local opposition. One of the companies that owns most of the mining r...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 4 years ago.
Be sure to read he Illinois Times article this week about coal power. Although the debate over coal-burning power plants often begins at the smokestack, Alice McKeown, a coal specialist for the Sierra Club and the reports author, finds that coals path o...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 4 years ago.
I was expecting Sicko to be predictable without informing me of anything that I don't already know. My assumption is that it would feature a bunch of emotionally taxing sob stories of people without insurance and then tell us that we need universal health...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 4 years ago.
Years ago when Bush condemned those who claimed Iraq is incapable of democracy I didn't take it seriously as an argument. I heard people give many reasons for opposing the war in Iraq but that wasn't one of them. Little did I know that Bush was making a p...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 4 years ago.
I almost can't believe what I read today in the State Journal-Register. My Republican representative in Congress John Shimkus is quoted as saying:In some of these countries where they are having some Islamic presence, is it better to have a constitution...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 4 years ago.
I missed their broadcast but WAND TV news has the story about Springfield's wind power contract going into effect on their website. I didn't spot the story in the SJ-R, which wouldn't have bothered me had they not run a story Sunday updating us about the ...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 4 years ago.
City Water Light & Power will begin using wind power July 1 as part of Springfield's clean energy plan worked out with the Sierra Club. At first, only 20MW of wind power will be incorporated into Springfield's energy mix with the remaining 100MW to be add...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 4 years ago.
Last Tuesday the State Journal-Register published a good Op-Ed by Bob Wesley about the work of the ACLU. It doesn't surprise me that they made room for a response by Eugene Weitzel in today's paper, but it does surprise me that the response they printed o...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 4 years ago.
I try to keep my blogroll from getting out of control by only linking to ones I actually read. I recently added three national blogs I've been checking on a regular basis. TreeHugger, AFL-CIO Blog, and Feministing. TreeHugger has become my favorite source...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 4 years ago.
I can't believe a TV station actually aired the anti-Walmart ad I saw this week. It tied the fact that Walmart imports most of its products from China to the fact that China supplies weapons to those fighting US troops in Afghanistan. It reminded me of th...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 4 years ago.
I wanted to point this out because its one of those issues that rarely gets coverage in the corporate media. An amendment to cut off funding to the School of Americas failed by 6 votes in the US House.Accorind to SOA Watch:"SOA graduates are responsible f...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 4 years ago.
Last night I saw a TV20 news report about the Chamber of Commerce setting up electric co-op programs to shield business owners from the outrageous Ameren rate hikes. The Springfield Area Chamber is copying a program already adopted in Decatur. The fact th...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 4 years ago.
I guess the fact that Ann Coulter used the favorite taunt of 5th graders everywhere when she called John Edwards gay doesn't seem so bad compared to her latest call for assassination."If I'm going to say anything about John Edwards in the future, I'll jus...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 4 years ago.
Elections in Illinois could get a little more interesting this year now that the Green Party has a guaranteed line on the general election ballot. I'm one of those odd people who daydreams about political strategies so I asked myself what I would advise t...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 4 years ago.
In the last two weeks two new downtown bars, Celtic Mist and Salute, had grand opening parties with large crowds. Can we blame the smoking ban for that too
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 4 years ago.
The State Journal Register has a good article today on the PURPA standards I wrote about before and that Greg blogged about extensively at CES Blog. I have to admit this is a complicated story that can get pretty boring so the SJ-R deserves credit for cov...
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