Here is an excellent article on electronic voting machines. Unfortunately, we have to get this information from Europe, as the topic is apparently not important enough for papers in the US to cover. It would be very simple to solve this problem permanently: all we need is a hard copy, a print out which the [...]
Archive for October, 2003
Today on MorningWood
October 14, 2003
Today on MorningWood 4 to 6AM WMNF 88.5 FM, Tampa, or streaming at wmnf.org. Listener sponsored community radio. First, I’d like to thank everyone who called in last week and pledged their support to the station during marathon. The station raised enough dough to keep broadcasting for another 6 months, and even a little extra [...]
60,000 Children left behind
October 13, 2003
From teh SP Times: Tammey Amodea’s baby needs a heart valve replacement. So the Cape Coral real estate agent is busy organizing fundraisers to pay for the operations her child is going to need. Amodea has to scramble because she doesn’t have health coverage from her employer and state lawmakers froze enrollment to Florida KidCare, [...]
Fuckin’ A – OK?
October 12, 2003
From the Austin American Statesman: Let’s say you’re the singer for this hugely internationally famous pop band about to win a major award in front of millions, and you’d like to make the occasion special by saying a very naughty word that means what people do for fun and procreation — right there on live [...]
Steve Gilliard on Junkie Rush
October 11, 2003
From Steve Gilliard’s News Blog: (scroll down to the Rush post) As my dad would say: yeah, right. The pills aren’t addictive, you are a junkie and instead of getting medical treatment when you started to take more dope, you went to the streets. Back surgery rarely works, and a lot of it was caused [...]
Jimbo nominated for White House conservation post
October 11, 2003
From The Washington Post: The Bush administration is proposing far-reaching changes to conservation policies that would allow hunters, circuses and the pet industry to kill, capture and import animals on the brink of extinction in other countries. Giving Americans access to endangered animals, officials said, would feed the gigantic U.S. demand for live animals, skins, [...]
Power hungry racist Republicans redraw Texas
October 10, 2003
From the Washington Post: Texas Republican leaders unveiled a congressional redistricting plan yesterday that Democrats characterized as an illegal attempt to solidify GOP control of the U.S. House by diluting the political influence of minority voters while handing Republicans at least seven more seats in Congress. …… “The map is clearly illegal and will be [...]
Council caves, trees lost
October 9, 2003
The Tampa City Council has spread its legs and invited the construction industry to use it hard and then pave over its hole. Having talked for months about tightening Tampa’s tree ordinance and making fines large and enforceable enough to actually save some trees, the Council yesterday decided to do nothing. Well, not quite nothing… [...]
DeLay squashes citizen calls
October 8, 2003
From Salon.com, we learn that House Majority Leader Tom DeLay is squashing citizens’ attempts to contact him and make their voices heard. (You’ll need a free day pass to view the entire Salon article that is linked above and excerpted below.) The progressive Internet organizing group MoveOn.org has reduced two pillars of the right-wing establishment [...]
Get up with MorningWood and support community radio!
October 6, 2003
Yours, for a $50 pledge! Thanks to Tomes and Treasures for donating these awesome MorningWood t-shirts. The only way to get your wood on is to pledge during MorningWood! Marathon is here for MorningWood. Tuesday morning. 4AM to 6AM. 88.5 FM in Tampa, or wmnf.org on the web. To pledge during Marathon, call 813-238-8001 or [...]