What a way to approach the huge Farm Bill issue in advance of a convention in Denver! Maybe Chicagoans don’t understand the interconnectedness of environmental issues in the West. Of course voting records are known! Tom Harkin’s ethanol bid, Obama’s backing of the corn states is naturally going to rub against up against the Rockies, and all points west. (more…)
Archive for August 9th, 2008
Radioactive?
Posted in Politics, tagged Clinton, Corn Subsidies, Delgates, DNC Convention, Energy, Ethanol, Farm Bill, Iowa, McCain, Obama, Reid, Yucca Mountain on August 9, 2008| Leave a Comment »
The Latest News From Denver
Posted in Politics, tagged Clinton, Denver, DNC Convention, just say no deal, Obama, Protest, PUMA PAC, The Denver Group on August 9, 2008| Leave a Comment »
UPDATE
The Denver Post had an article about The Denver Group. Heidi Li posted it. Send 5 bucks today:
Saturday, August 9, 2008
The Denver Post covers The Denver Group
http://thedenvergroup.blogspot.com/2008/08/denver-post-covers-denver-group.html
Familiar and Sounds Right
Posted in Politics, tagged 18 Million Voices, Clinton, DNC Convention, DNC Platform Ideas, Election, Human Rights, NARAL, Voting Reform, Women's Rights on August 9, 2008| Leave a Comment »
As a person who has had to spend a fair amount of time writing technical reports in my life, the effort of viewpoint blogging has been a new stretch. I’m used to having to present facts, or evaluations as part of my writing, and not offer my personal thoughts. In the world of blogging, just like everywhere in the media these days, facts and even evaluations are not readily available or must be researched, themselves. A web search of keywords, as we all know, can reveal hundreds of thousands of hits. However, if we spend the time winnowing through them, we often discover the hits spring from a few recycled sources. We spend so much time looking, it’s disturbing to find expectations don’t match the message. (more…)