The mayor is always spouting about how green our city is. There’s all sorts of little initiatives that they’ve done to make it green, and most seem to be construction related, or dealing with government buildings.
They neglect one of the biggest things that would make a city green.
Public transportation.
Because of school, I REALLY need to [...]
Posts Tagged ‘politics’
“Green” Dubuque
Posted in Current Affairs, Iowa, Local News, Local Stuff, commentary, disabilities, environment, life, politics, tagged dubuque, green, Iowa, politics, public transportation on July 3, 2008 | 3 Comments »
8th Month Abortion
Posted in Current Affairs, commentary, politics, tagged China, immigration, politics, pro-choice, pro-life, Supreme Court on May 12, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Court turns down Chinese man’s asylum claim
I guess this nation being rabidly pro-life only counts within our borders!
Blog Takes Failed Marriage Into Fight Over Free Speech
Posted in commentary, politics, tagged law, politics on January 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Blog Takes Failed Marriage Into Fight Over Free Speech – New York Times
Man blogs a ‘ficti0nal account’ of his marriage. Divorce judge wants him to take it down and not post any more. Interesting article.
I think he should keep it up unless what the article says is true — he posted bits of her personal [...]
Empowering
Posted in Iowa, commentary, politics, tagged Iowa, politics on January 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If I could think of one word to describe the Democratic caucus process, that would be it. (It is different than the Republican one.) Standing with your neighbors, your community, discussing the issues and how to best obtain the goals you’ve set makes you feel like part of the process.
After living in NYC much of [...]
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Poverty
Posted in Current Affairs, commentary, politics, religion, tagged economics, media, politics, poverty, religion on September 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sojourners Magazine, September/October 2008.
Most recent issue of Sojourners has two interviews with two men, about poverty. Edwards and Huckabee. Interesting to see two sides of the political fence discuss the same issue.
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