Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 4 months ago.
I've been predicting that at some point during the campaign a Southern member of Congress was going to call Barack Obama "boy." I thought it would happen in the middle of the general election but it popped up quicker than I expected.'That boy's finger do...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 4 months ago.
The Illinois Sierra Club has a new section on its website for the Illinois Clean Car Bill. If you click on the "Take Action" button it leads to a page where you can send an email message to your State Representative and Senator. I know I've asked people...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 4 months ago.
The Illinois Times was cool enough to highlight this month's Liberty Brew & View in the Night & Day section. I've been hearing from a lot of people who plan to be there so I think it will be a big crowd this Tuesday. Some people are telling me that they ...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 4 months ago.
My best looking reader pointed out that it's the two year anniversary of my blog. My first post was April 8, 2006. I forgot I've been writing for so long. I think its much better now than when it started out as a campaign blog exclusively about county i...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 4 months ago.
There's a new website for the drive to take action on climate change in Illinois. The Illinois Climate Action Network website has up to date information about bills in the Illinois General Assembly and fact sheets on several proposals. It's a joint proj...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 4 months ago.
Koyaanisqatsi is not well known but its influence reaches far, especially in the film world. In popular culture, its wikipedia entry lists references in three different Simpsons episodes. Clips are also included in a music video for Hard to Explain by h...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 4 months ago.
If you've never been to the Civil Rights Museum in Memphis then you're really missing out on something. Its housed in the Lorraine Motel where Martin Luther King was assassinated. Walking through is a moving history of King and the struggle.The climax o...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 4 months ago.
The fact that Fox State Television is shameless propaganda is old news but they have a video on their website where Father Michael Pfleger suggests Fox would have acted as the pharisees by constantly replaying quotes from Jesus out of context to make him ...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 4 months ago.
Below is a trailer for the first movie in the April Earth Month double feature, The 11th Hour. This global warming documentary is produced and narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio. It was released in 2007 and this will be the first public screening in Springfi...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 4 months ago.
How do you know when someone under public pressure is backtracking merely as an act of political damage control It's when they have to tell you that they aren't doing it for political reasons under pressure. For example:Harris said rescinding the raise ...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 4 months ago.
One of the top three bills environmental groups pushed for during their citizen lobby day at the State Capitol Wednesday is the Clean Car Act. The bill would have Illinois join 13 other states in adopting a higher standard for vehicle emissions, which ar...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 4 months ago.
I give the State Journal-Register grief sometimes for going easy on certain local political leaders and the Republican county board, but I have to give them credit for surprising me over the past few days. I didn't expect them to publish a highly critica...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 4 months ago.
Since the Illinois citizen environmental lobby day is coming up tomorrow I thought I would post the Illinois Environmental Council's scorecard for votes taken in the state legislature last year. Each year the IEC releases a report on how members of the G...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 4 months ago.
Monday evening I attended the Capital Roundtable Discussion held in Springfield by State Representatives Brauer and Poe and Senator Larry Bomke. A series of speakers talked about projects in the area that they'd like to see funded and the backlog of unde...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 4 months ago.
A few people said they liked the post I did in November about some of the odd search phrases people used to find my blog so I'm going to do it again. The most frequent phrases people used to find there way here this month are unsurprising. There are man...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 4 months ago.
I want to make sure people notice a letter to the editor in today's State Journal Register about long wall mining in Montgomery county. It mentions an unbelievable public meeting held by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources set up for questions a...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 5 months ago.
Today the State Journal-Register broke a ten month old story about the Springfield Metro Sanitary District trustees giving themselves a raise. This "revelation" could have been reported on at the time if not for the failure of the paper and other local m...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 5 months ago.
Like many people in Springfield I make a minor hobby of studying Abraham Lincoln. My mom gave tours at Lincolns Home and Lincolns Tomb so I grew up learning about civil war history. My friends from other towns think Im a freakishly knowledgeable expe...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 5 months ago.
As promised, I'm going to start writing more reviews and lists of recommended books and movies. To start off, I'm going to list my five favorite movies on the topic I write about most, climate change and clean energy.1. An Inconvenient Truth
Probably eve...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 5 months ago.
Once in a while I think about trying to make a little money from this blog since I'm getting pretty high regular traffic for a local site like this but so far I've resisted cluttering things up with ads. I finally decided that the Powell's Books partners...
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