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Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 11 months ago.
I'm surprised at how many informed people I've talked to who don't realize there's a runoff election for Springfield mayor coming up this Tuesday (2/22). Turn out will be low, which usually favors candidates with a better get-out-the-vote operation. Rep...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 11 months ago.
Personally, I think teachers and other public service professionals deserve higher pay than men who play games with balls. Even if their team did win the Superbowl this year.
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 11 months ago.
Senator Dick Durbin has already recorded an automated call and recruited his Springfield supporters to volunteer and donate to Sheila Stocks-Smith's campaign for mayor. Below is part of an email that went out from Durbin yesterday.Springfield's my hometo...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 11 months ago.
I'm concerned that there's an impostor posing as Congress John Shimkus in Washington. I don't know how else to explain the dramatic contradiction between what he tells newspapers back in the district and what he actually does when Congress is in session....
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 11 months ago.
You'd think that something as simple as yard signs wouldn't be a big problem for political campaigns. But, a bad sign strategy is one of the most common mistakes made by rookie candidates and even some seasoned veterans. Here's my free, unsolicited advi...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 11 months ago.
As far as I can tell, you're the only one with thinks that Al Gore's personal life has anything to do with resolving the climate change crisis. I'm one of your many constituents who notices that the recent climate disasters are exactly what scientists ha...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 11 months ago.
Ronald Reagan would have turned 100 today. A Republican Congressman's proposal to replace U. S. Grant with Ronald Reagan on the $50 bill gives good reason to compare the nation's most underrated President with its most overrated. Ulysses Grant's reputat...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 1 year ago.
She won't say it but Senator Claire McCaskill is showing by her actions that she wants more climate disasters like the blizzard that has me stuck in my house right now. I haven't seen it mentioned on my local news, but the storm blowing across America is ...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 1 year ago.
The Sierra Club is working to elect Sheila Stocks-Smith as mayor of Springfield. Here's part of an email sent to members. Much is at stake for Springfield in the upcoming city election. The candidates we choose will decide whether our city will continue...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 1 year ago.
Several recent articles show the path of Illinois' new energy future.The Bloomington Pantagraph reports that a wind turbine manufacturer in Clinton (North of Decatur) is adding new jobs and a third shift. The company President had encouraging news for th...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 1 year ago.
That's the magic number from President Obama's State of the Union address and I was glad to hear it. 80% clean energy by 2035 and 80% of Americans with high speed rail access. Both will be vitally important steps in reducing carbon emissions.I noticed s...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 1 year ago.
John Shimkus' office responded by email to my question about the post on his Congressional facebook and twitter page the morning Representative Gabrielle Giffords was shot. Since my email to his office mentioned that I'm writing about it on my blog I'm g...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 1 year ago.
The January meeting of the Sierra Club Sangamon Valley Group will feature a showing of Tar Creek. It's this Tuesday, January 25, 6:30, at the Lincoln Library Carnegie Room.TAR CREEK is the story of the worst environmental disaster you’ve never heard of...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 1 year ago.
My Congressman, John Shimkus, regularly posts Biblical verses on his official facebook and twitter page. I was reading his facebook page today when I noticed the unfortunate verse he posted on the morning Gabrielle Giffords and others were attacked. Roma...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 1 year ago.
The Springfield ACLU will host a Liberty Brew & View screening of The Lord Is Not On Trial Here Today. Writer/Director Jay Rosenstein will be the special guest speaker after the film.This new documentary tells the story of a central Illinois trial that f...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 1 year ago.
Liberty Brew & View is moved from the usual night to Wednesday this month. The free showing of Exit Through the Gift Shop is Wednesday, January 19, 7:00pm at City Nights Theater in Capital City Bar & Grill.
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 1 year ago.
The coal industry and its allies in the press have long engaged in a creative bait and switch. First, they tout the cheap and efficient nature of coal as an energy source. Those facts are cited to justify building new coal gasification and carbon captur...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 1 year ago.
I was looking for a good news article to link about the failure of the Taylorville Tenaska coal plant. I couldn't find even one that mentions opposition on environmental grounds or that it will be a major new source of global warming pollution. Most art...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 1 year ago.
A bill for the Tenaska dirty coal plant proposed in Taylorville came up in the Senate again very late Tuesday night. It failed, getting seven fewer votes than last time, with 18 in favor, 33 against, and 4 not voting.Tenaska representatives claimed they ...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 1 year ago.
There's new evidence of a CO2 leak in Canada at the world's largest carbon capture site. A local farmer had a study done after leaks were killing animals and "sending groundwater foaming to the surface like shaken-up soda pop." It's a reminder for cent...
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