| Feb 1, 2010 | Food / FarmingStop me if you’ve heard this one. Congress passes a bill to address an urgent public need. A greedy industry finds a loophole and steps in to siphon off a half-billion dollars without accomplishing anything new. Free money, no public purpose served, taxpayers...
| | Environment / HealthDried up lakes, Can use some aid; Need much more, Than “Cap and Trade.” More than 190 nations have now agreed: Climate Change is bad and we ought to do something about it…let’s meet again someday to decide what. Naturally, low-lying islands...
| | Food / FarmingFire hydrants deserve more respect. These utilitarian and ubiquitous icons of America’s urban landscape are rarely noticed by anyone but dogs—and they give hydrants no respect whatsoever. Worse, though, a brand-name corporation now intends to lift its leg...
| | Rights / DemocracyIn days of yore they called them the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death—the scourges of humankind. They’re still around, but now they carry new names: Roberts, Scalia, Thomas, Alito, and Kennedy—the conservative...
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