LA Times (Free subscription) | 14/10/2008
Dorothy Green, a leading environmental activist whose anger over the pollution of Santa Monica Bay spurred her to establish the grass-roots group Heal the Bay and head efforts to change water policy in California, died Monday at her Westwood home. She was 79. The cause was melanoma, according to her son, Joshua.
Liberadio(!) (Free subscription) | 14/10/2008
Election Reform Needs Media Reform Thank you, Mark Crispin Miller, for succinctly writing what I have been fuming about all day. In an introduction to an incredible piece in OpEdNews called, “The False Narrative of ‘Voter Fraud,’” by Kenneth Anderson, Mark writes: “Amen, amen. And what it makes entirely clear is that we need not just [...]
Twohundredpercent (Free subscription) | 14/10/2008
A rather strange story appeared on the front page of “Non-League Today” this week. Under the enthusiastic headline “It’s Toon Army II”, the paper reported that a group of Newcastle United supporters have grown so disillusioned with their club that they hope to follow in the footsteps of FC United of Manchester and form an [...]
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
The lousy economy. Contentious political races. The lousy economy. The shrinking job market. The lousy economy. Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The lousy economy
NewsObserver.com - Politics (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
As the registration deadline arrived Friday to vote on Nov. 4, Wake election officials were dealing with mail buckets full of voter applications.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
In its effort of improving business activities in Gombe State, the National Poverty Eradication Programme Agency (NAPEP) has presented a cheque worth N62 million to five micro-finance banks for onward distribution as loan to citizenry for alleviating poverty in the state.
Matthew's RSA blog (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Matthew Taylor discusses the legacy of the 2012 Olympic games.
Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
We look at the grass-roots volunteers who spend countless hours drumming up support for their candidates. What drives them to do it? Don't tell Jamila Clark she is the wrong age and race to support Republican John McCain's run for president.
Opinion L.A. (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Had I been in Tom Brokaw's spot for Tuesday night's debate (see my colleague Mike McGough's post on Brokaw's eccentric moderating style), I hope I would have found a way to let John McCain elaborate on his breathtaking proposal to have the feds buy up troubled mortgages. I say "breathtaking" because it's a very big idea that seemed to come out of nowhere. It's also political dynamite, and it's not...
Time (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
The automobile showrooms need refurbishing and folks need cars but everything - especially sales and leases - is on hold
Classical Values (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
No Quarter has a fascinating article on Obama's past. It runs down in detail Senator Obama's socialist past. Did you know that Barack Obama was affiliated with a leading national socialist party? Barack Obama didn't include in his 2008 resume...
Sweetness & Light (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
From the March-April, 2000 newsletter of the Chicago Democratic Socialists of America: Chicago DSA Recommendations for the March Primary Election by Robert Roman For Congressman of the 1st Congressional District, the Executive Committee was faced with two very good candidates. As we are not making endorsements but merely recommendations, we felt no conflict in recommending both Bobby [...]
New York Times (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
If all goes according to plan, it will be Wal-Mart moms and Joe Six-Packs who will drive the exchanges between Senators John McCain and Barack Obama at tonight’s debate.
The Far Post Report (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
#1 Widen the base – move the tip of the pyramid higher - Increase the grass roots schedule by three months to increase the number of players, at the grassroots, playing soccer more year round. The Sebastopol Rec Soccer Season ends in two weeks – after 7 weeks of play. Even if the leagues provide 3 months of play, most players play soccer 1/4 of the year. By the time they are age 11 they are not very...
craigblog (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
There are folks trying to figure out what happens with the millions of people networked together, after the election. As a kind of online community organizer, I figure it's worth putting this in historical context and then proposing some serious...
