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The proposed Chicago Clean Energy Facility has had advocates for it, too. Jobs…

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Well, the plant – Thismia americana – can be found in the the Southern…

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The nation’s first off-shore wind farm has received federal approval and construction could begin this fall, reports the Boston Globe. The wind farm will be built off cap cod, where it has been opposed for ruining the sight of the…

A $499 million, 150-megawatt Merricourt Wind Project is supposed to be built this year in southeast North Dakota appears stymied because it jeopardizes the endangered whooping crane and the threatened piping plover. It’s one of several expected standoffs between wind farm…

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Gery Chico today promised a host of initiatives to promote renewable energy and green…

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Congressman Danny Davis isn’t taking the holiday break lightly.

As others quitely gear up for…

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A persistent eye problem kept me from my usual column this past Monday, ironically following a week of major actions that cried out for comment, analysis or maybe just plain tears. Since I will be having more surgery done immediately after the Independence Day weekend, I decided to file this sort of interim report on where I see things going, socially and politically as of mid-2010.

First, the enormity of the gulf oil spill and the deceptions of BP represent an ecological tragedy equivalent to war. We will be decades recovering, …

In the deadly game of politics your enemies often do you more good than your friends. No one understands this better than Barack Obama.

A week or two ago Obama appeared to be drowning in the oil-soiled waters of Gulf of Mexico. Today he is the beneficiary of unintended largesse from a string of gaffe-prone Republican candidates and office-holders who, one way or another, appear to be siding with BP against him. Poor, beleaguered BP.
With Obama’s stock apparently on the upswing, one cannot overlook the contributions of the best enemy of …

Forgive me folks, but I’ve had a bad two weeks with my computer. In 2000 I signed on to Earthlink and when high speed cable became available via my local monopoly Comcast I signed on to it; so now I get Earthlink via Comcast, and outside of Chicago I use a Sprint stick instead of Earthlink dialup. Being a total idiot with computers (don’t ask me what a URL is, or the difference between a browser or a server), I just pay everyone, but when things don’t work …

Putting aside religious beliefs, nothing in life has 100% upside – nothing. But the closest thing to a guaranteed better, safer, and more fulfilling life is freedom. Freedom means responsibility. It also means failure, accidents and mistakes. This, in turn, leads to learning, which is why successes outweigh the failures. However, humans must be free to understand the consequences of their actions. Without consequences, there is little learning.

When freedom prevails, the ingenuity and inventiveness of people creates incredible wealth. This is the source of the natural improvement of the human …