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Dear EarthTalk: I’m sure there are many good environmental reasons to build a rooftop garden. Can you enlighten? And also I’d like to know how to go about creating one and whether or not some municipalities might offer incentives to do so. – Linda, via e-mail Indeed there are many good reasons to build a…
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As I continue visiting every locality in the Fifth District this August to hear my constituents’ feedback about healthcare reform, one of the most common questions I receive is about the public option, the Health Insurance Exchange, and whether or not it all means a “government takeover of healthcare.” I’d like to explain the intended…
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Maryland artist Sabine Carlson will exhibit “Trees and Helicopters” Aug. 31 – Oct. 9, in the Cleo Driver Miller Art Gallery at Bridgewater College. An artist’s talk will be held at 4 p.m. Monday, Sept. 14, in the Boitnott Room. A reception will follow from 5 to 7 p.m. in the Miller Gallery. The talk,…
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Twenty-nine days. That’s how long it took Republican leaders and the three statewide campaigns to distance themselves from wingnut Northern Neck Republican House candidate Catherine Crabill, who has said in her campaign for the seat currently held by Democratic Del. Albert Pollard that the federal government might have played a role in the Oklahoma City…
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In the last few months, we’ve made more progress on health-insurance reform than we made in the previous 60 years. You can tell from the reaction of reform opponents that we’re doing something right. Special interests who profit from the status quo are spreading brazen lies that stir up anger, and Republican leaders are chiming…
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Friday, Aug. 14 – Remarks by the president in town hall on health care, Belgrade, Mont.
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I’d not heard anyone talking about single-payer health care at the state level until I walked door-to-door with Sherry Stanley for a profile story that I wrote about her during her campaign for the 25th District seat in the Virginia House of Delegates in 1997. All these years later, with much of her free time…
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Wednesday, Aug. 12 – Remarks by President Obama at Medal of Freedom ceremony – Remarks by president and Justice Sonia Sotomayor at White House ceremony – Press briefing by Press Secretary Robert Gibbs
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Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) demonstrates how her permanent residence in her ivory tower sneering down upon the minions beneath her has affected her perspective, when she liberally accuses American citizens of having mob mentality for simply exercising their rights to free speech and expression as guaranteed by the Constitution.
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Monday, Aug. 10 – Press conference with President Obama, Mexican President Calderon and Canadian Prime Minister Harper in Guadalajara, Mexico – Press gaggle by Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton
