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Health Reform: An Integrated Problem In An Integrated World
What have the Olympics, oil and commodity prices, and supply and demand have to do with either pandemic preparedness or health reform? And what do either have to do with politics? Pandemic preparedness is still an issue; pandemics are inevitable, and we are not yet prepared for one (follow the links... Full Article At Daily Kos
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Obama acceptance speech at Mile High Stadium?
There was talk about Dems shortening the Convention to three days, but now, talk is about doing "something different" on the last night. Could it be this ? What better place to accept the nomination for the most powerful job in the world? Invesco... Full Article At Daily Kos
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McCain reboots and gives rise to the Rovians
After effectively securing the Republican nomination in early February, and officially crossing the delegate threshold in early March, John McCain had plenty of time to shape a general ... Full Article At The Carpetbagger Report
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Today's Polls: Gallup Snaps Back Into Line
Hardly a full diet of polling today but just an amuse bouche. In Arizona, Rasmussen has the state's Senior Senator leading by 9 points; he had held a 20-point lead in Rasmussen's last Poll of ... Full Article At The New Republic
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Paula Gordon: Less-Dependence Day, July 4, 2008
Want to talk about Gas Prices this July 4th weekend? Great! For more than 30 years we've known what's required to recover from our oil-addiction. Tax carbon to fund alternatives, to reduce consumption and to reduce greenhouse emissions and... Full Article At HuffingtonPost
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Patrick Takahashi: What About Free Hydrogen? Part 1
Over the next couple of Green posts I will discuss the matter of free hydrogen. Yes, just make hydrogen free by, say, 2020, and let industry, with government assistance, develop the Infrastructure and systems to handle the Age of Free Hydrogen... Full Article At HuffingtonPost
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Dominion to Sell Two Distributors
Dominion has agreed to sell two natural-gas distributors to an Infrastructure-investment fund that is a satellite of embattled Australian asset manager Babcock & Brown Ltd. for $910 million.... Full Article At Wall Street Journal: Politics and Policy
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Janet Ritz: Permafrost Threatened by Rapid Retreat of Arctic Sea Ice
A new study by the National Snow and Ice Data Center and the National Center for Atmospheric Research has warned that the integrity of carbon and methane sequestering permafrost is threatened by the rapid retreat of Arctic Sea Ice. This comes at the same time as warnings that this summer may see the... Full Article At HuffingtonPost
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$200 BARRELS AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.
The LA Times has an interesting article on what will happen if oil prices hit $200. In short, activities that require lots of oil will become incredibly expensive. And in Southern California, just about all activities require lots of oil. Michael Woo, a member of Los Angeles's Planning Commission... Full Article At The American Prospect - Ezra Klein
THE LA SUBWAY.
As an addendum to that last post, it's worth remembering that there's no cosmic reason that Los Angeles doesn't have an integrated, comprehensive public transit ... Full Article At The American Prospect - Ezra Klein
