Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 3 months ago.
Not that anyone is asking but my suggestion for McCain's running mate is Elizabeth Dole. A Bush or a Dole has been on every Republican ticket since 1976 and this would keep the streak going since there's no chance McCain wants the Bush name dragging him ...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 3 months ago.
CWLP holds public meetings every other month to inform the public and get feedback on their new energy programs. One big item that's being developed now is the wind power buy-in program that will allow customers to pay a little extra on their bill to sup...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 3 months ago.
The May Liberty Brew & View movie, Our Brand is Crisis, follows the 2002 campaign of Goni, the former Bolivian President attempting a come-back to power. One of the losing candidates in that race, Evo Morales, is the subject of a new documentary called C...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 3 months ago.
One of the things I've been most impressed with about Obama's platform is his outspoken support for reducing oil consumption and lowering vehicle emissions. After Tim Russert did his best impersonation of a conservative talk radio host for ten minutes of...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 3 months ago.
Here's a pdf to download and a jpg version of the flier for the May Liberty Brew & View movie.You can click on the image to enlarge.
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 3 months ago.
One of the exciting things about the clean energy agreement between the Sierra Club and CWLP is that once the agreement was reached, environmentalists, local unions, and the utility were all standing on the same side for a deal that created new jobs while...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 3 months ago.
Much of the world celebrates labor day on May First and that's a good enough excuse to write something about the labor movement. Yesterday I was looking at the website for the Blue Green Alliance. Its a joint project of unions and environmental groups le...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 3 months ago.
Last night I went to the Movie Geeks Club showing of The Pianist at Capital City Bar & Grill. It's one of those movies that hits you with the emotional equivalent of Albert Pujols taking a home run swing to your gut. Its an excellent film to watch.Frien...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 3 months ago.
I read some good reviews about the new band Against Me. Rolling Stone magazine praised them as the best of what they're calling punk these days. I usually like bands with a left wing political bent in their lyrics. It's more interesting than yet another ...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 4 months ago.
I've written so much about the lack of public involvement in the process for picking new voting machines in Sangamon County that I feel almost obligated to post my thoughts about the story on problems with the Populex voting system. I know my fans in the...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 4 months ago.
One of the hot topics of conversation in the State Capitol Building and the surrounding bars is whether to have a Constitutional Convention. In a Jeffersonian stroke of democracy, the Illinois Constitution has a provision which allows the General Assembl...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 4 months ago.
Last night's presentation by Debra Rowe continues the great job UIS does of bringing in nationally recognized environmental leaders for Earth Day. I won't try to summarize her remarks but there were three points related to Springfield that stuck out for ...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 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...
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