Beyond the shuttered paper mill, the marinas.
A couple times a week I take the long way home and make the circuit that takes me down to Pere Marquette park by the Lake Michigan shoreline. We'd just dropped my wife off at her store, my youngest...
View ArticleChicago Rally - Solidarity With Wisconsin - Feb 26, 2011
Went to the rally by the State of Illinois Bldg - 100 W. Randolph in downtown Chicago. There was a large crowd that grew bigger as the rally got going. Mainstream news put the number under a thousand...
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Overnight News Digest: Science Saturday (Solidarity with Wisconsin edition)
Welcome to Science Saturday, where the Overnight News Digest crew informs and entertains you with this week's news about science, space, and the environment. This week, Science Saturday stands in...
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SciTech Diaries -- Feb 19th - 26th
SciTech Week #2 February 19th through 26th, 2011 The SciTech group is dedicated to the explication of Science and Technology. We welcome all diaries, essays, and discussions that teach or explain the...
View ArticleChicago 'Save the American dream'... Rally in support of Wisconsin workers'
If you drove by the Thompson Center, aka the State of Illinois Building, located at 100 W. Randolph in downtown Chicago at 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, February 26, 2011, you would have seen maybe 150-200...
View ArticleStanding up to Republicans: Ohio Edition
Last Monday I wrote an action alert diary focusing on Wisconsin. Wisconsin has gotten the most attention and I think it is really kick ass what progressives have been accomplishing there. Nearly...
View ArticleThe classic Republican approach: Always blame the other guy
This diary is about public health in Iowa but likely demonstrates how easy it is to confuse the public, even those knowledgeable about an issue. I recently attended a seminar by Dr. Marionette...
View ArticleSwing Set
When I was five my father took me to a semi-pro baseball game. I was dropped off in a playground area and headed for the swings. Already high in the air, singing jubilantly to herself, was an...
View ArticleThe Attack on Unions in Wisconsin
We had all expected that the conservatives will use this economic downturn to restructure the state and local economies to suit the interests of the powerful: the attack on the Unions, spearheaded by...
View ArticleOhio's Kasich. Walker's best bud?
Cleveland's The Plain Dealer ran an interview with Governor Kasich today that provides yet more bogus reasons to throw Unions under the bus including promised state and local savings annually of more...
View ArticleWhy am I the enemy?
Over the past several weeks, I have received hundreds of emails from friends all over the country who are asking some very good questions, making some great points, and continuing the dialogue that...
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Sarah Palin's popularity drops with Republicans. Again.
(Source: The Des Moines Register) Uh oh. More bad news for the woman who believes no one is more qualified for the job of president "than a woman, a mom… who’s administered locally, state, with energy...
View ArticleProgressive Democrat Newsletter Issue 289
It has been a really bad week for Lybia's Qaddafi and Wisconsin's Scott Walker. And may they have many more bad weeks! Some BBC headlines covering the Middle East. Midwest coverage below. LYBIA:...
View ArticleMust renounce 14th Amendment Citizenship?
I went to Facebook to post a link to "FYI I'm One of the People in the Capitol - An Interview" by cskendrick (fabulous diary, btw) made of an interview with Kossack lil bear who has been in the WI...
View ArticleWeekly Audit: Police Defy Order to Clear Protesters from Wisconsin Capital
By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger On Monday afternoon, the Capitol Police in Madison, Wisconsin refused to enforce an order to clear the Capitol building of hundreds of peaceful...
View Article8,500 at Ohio Demonstration - Live Now
Columbus, OH demonstration against Senate Bill 5 (which would destroy public labor unions) from 10:30 until 6:00 today. So far there are 8,500 people there — the "largest crowd of its kind in at least...
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Fetus to 'testify' at hearing on Ohio abortion bill
Photo: Alexey Buhantsoff From the "you've got to be kidding me" files: COLUMBUS, Ohio — A fetus has been scheduled as a legislative witness in Ohio on a unique bill that proposes outlawing abortions...
View ArticleSB5 rally at Ohio Statehouse (pics & video)
There was another rally today against Senate Bill 5 at the Ohio Statehouse today, the biggest yet. I heard that the crowd estimate was 20,000 ("at least 8,500" according to the Republican newspaper...
View ArticleGulf Watchers Wednesday - BP Partner Gets 1st Deepwater Drilling Permit - BP...
You are in the current Gulf Watchers BP Catastrophe - AUV #481. ROV #480 is here. Follow the Gulf Watchers tag by going clicking on the heart next to the Gulf Watchers tag at the bottom of this diary....
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Social Security, women and poverty in Maine
This is part of a series of posts I am writing as a blogging fellow for the Strengthen Social Security Campaign, a coalition of more than 270 national and state organizations. Cross posted at Dirigo...
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