By Miryam Ehrlich Williamson Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid plans to bring some kind of energy bill to the floor during the week of July 26. Just what it will contain is still open for conjecture. But it’s a sure bet it will be less than environmental activists want, and more that industrial activists will [...]
Posted on July 20th, 2010 by Miryam Ehrlich Williamson
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by Debra Kozikowski What better way to celebrate our nation’s birthday than by soaking in a history lesson from America’s most knowledgable presidential scholars? Every eight years, Siena College in Loudonville, N.Y., asks scholars to rank the best and worst presidents in American history. Since the first published rankings back in 1982, Franklin D. Roosevelt has [...]
Posted on July 4th, 2010 by DebbySKoz
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By Miryam Ehrlich Williamson The past few nights Ed, my husband, and I have been watching a DVD called “The Crash Course.” The title’s double meaning is bitterly delicious. The DVD is a three-hour lecture by Chris Martenson on the interplay between what’s going on with the economy, energy, and the environment and how the [...]
Posted on July 2nd, 2010 by Miryam Ehrlich Williamson
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By Daphne Bishop The people at RuralVotes work for progress. We strive to create a better future for our communities and are actively engaged in the world around us. We write about seemingly intractable problems and highlight people who are finding innovative solutions. Sometimes, we discover that our words and our efforts join a larger [...]
Posted on June 11th, 2010 by DebbySKoz
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From The Rural Blog The coal industry is important to West Virginia, but that doesn’t mean it should not have to answer to several basic principles, the state’s senior senator writes in an editorial. Democrat Robert Byrd calls for the industry to respect the miner and miner’s family, the land that yields the coal, and the [...]
Posted on May 7th, 2010 by DebbySKoz
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By Miryam Ehrlich Williamson Last week I came upon an extremely interesting article on Truthout, a site with which I hope you are already familiar – or that you’ll get to know today, if you aren’t already. The title, Why You Need to Understand Political Psychology, by Joe Brewer, pushes many of my buttons. By [...]
Posted on April 8th, 2010 by Miryam Ehrlich Williamson
Filed under: Agriculture, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
By Miryam Ehrlich Williamson President Obama and his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev (Maria, my Russian friend, says to pronounce it myed-VYE-dyev), have agreed to a new nuclear arms reduction treaty, committing both countries to a significant cut in the number of nuclear missles we have deployed. The reduction will amount to about 30 percent, leaving [...]
Posted on March 27th, 2010 by Miryam Ehrlich Williamson
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By Miryam Ehrlich Williamson How can you know how you feel about the health-care reform law if you don’t know what’s in it? Here, gleaned largely from reports in the right-leaning Wall Street Journal and the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation, is a list of provisions that will affect individuals and families. I’m not using material [...]
Posted on March 23rd, 2010 by Miryam Ehrlich Williamson
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By Miryam Ehrlich Williamson Spring arrived at 1:32 Saturday afternoon. while I wasn’t paying attention. Here in the Western Massachusetts hills, the spring equinox most often marks the beginning of the third half of winter – more freezing weather, more snow and, even worse, ice storms. Amazingly for these parts, it’s seemed for about a [...]
Posted on March 22nd, 2010 by Miryam Ehrlich Williamson
Filed under: House of Representatives, Senate, US Congress, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
By Miryam Ehrlich Williamson What’s this picture of congressmembers Alan Grayson (D-FL8) (left) and Ron Paul (R-TX14) doing here? Grayson, as you may know, is a majorly outspoken progressive, especially for a first-termer in the House, where the only guaranteed lifespan is two years. Paul, in his sixth term, is a bedrock libertarian. For progressives, [...]
Posted on March 16th, 2010 by Miryam Ehrlich Williamson
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