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I added a few links to the blogroll, including a new blog by the Shawnee Group of the Sierra Club in Southern Illinois and a blog by Bob Pauls, which has a recent post about Carbondale signing the U.S. Council of Mayors Climate Protection Agreement. The ...
Several organizations will join with the Sangamon Valley Group of the Sierra Club to present a Clean Energy Film Festival in Springfield over the next several weeks. This is your chance to learn more about the problem of global warming and new, innovative...
I've been too busy to blog for a while but during the next few days I plan to get back on track with posts about the Citizens Club forum, among other things. For now, I want to point out a few interesting news stories that recently came out about global ...
Next Wednesday I'm serving on a panel forum to discuss Springfield's energy future and the new energy plan worked out between CWLP and the Sierra Club. It's being sponsored by a group called the Citizens Club that has members from across the political sp...
Last night the Sierra Club hosted a presentation on the proposed Hunter Lake given by two leaders of a new group that is tentatively named "Save the land, stop the dam." Although, I think they should reconsider naming it Stop The Dam group or "STD" for s...
When I was in school, the mission and dream of Martin Luther King was taught as a history lesson. I learned a little about segregation and listened to stories of King's struggle as though it were something completely in the past that has no relationship ...

Martin Luther King arrested in Montgomery Alabama in 1958.John Lewis beaten by Alabama State Troopers in Selma. Then he was chairman of SNCC. Today he's a Congressman from Georgia.Happy Martin Luther King Day.
For some reason I forgot to read Schoenburg's column yesterday so I missed the article about the homeless people who were given tickets to Alderman Joe Bartolomucci's fundraiser. Normally I don't approve of dirty tricks like that but considering his comme...
I'm sure Dick Durbin will receive the usual mountain of insults and virulent attacks from the conservative hate-radio crowd for delivering the Democratic response to Bush's proposal to escalate the war in Iraq. Once again, I'm proud to have Dick Durbin r...
As you may have heard or read in the news, the zoning change I last wrote about passed the monolithic County Board by a large margin. Although, I was surprised to see three Republicans join the three Democrats who voted against it.TV 20 News had a short ...

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