The Lammers site pollution investigation has finally seen the light of day. Beavercreek is running it as a 3-part series on Thursdays, starting yesterday. Xenia, Fairborn and Bellbrook are running it as a 3-part series on Fridays starting today. Wilmington is running it as a 2-part series, today and Saturday. (Since this post was first … Continue reading Published!
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Creative nonfiction: Jet fuel and backwards math
I call this, "Jet fuel and backwards math." I have a female friend who took a trip to a Honduras, presumably to work at food distribution centers and halfway houses and free clinics, as many of our acquaintances often do. Until just now I didn't know what that jet fuel meant. In January 2009 Yan … Continue reading Creative nonfiction: Jet fuel and backwards math
Best of Twitter 5: Links to others’ green stuff part I
Contest: What's the "greenest" concept you can think of? Mine is the "100 Thing Challenge." Only 100 personal possessions. Could you do it? 2:11 PM Feb 20th And visit betterworldshopper.com— a site (and book) that ranks companies for responsibility. Almost all products have a better option. 11:01 AM Feb 25th Cell phone radiation harmful? Who … Continue reading Best of Twitter 5: Links to others’ green stuff part I
Best of Twitter 4: My own green thoughts
Blogging about Applied Sciences, Inc, the world's third largest producer of carbon nanotubes - tech that could double the Volt car's milage. 4:32 PM Feb 12th If it's true that the first passive solar building stateside will be in Yellow Springs (near here), I'm on it like weatherstripping. 8:51 AM Feb 19th If we kept … Continue reading Best of Twitter 4: My own green thoughts
Best of Twitter 3: My thoughts (non-green)
Google's advanced search: limit the domain and the file type, and find every spreadsheet an org has posted to the net. 12:03 PM Mar 7th $10,000: The usual DAILY fine, legally-mandated, for a nonprofit withholding its IRS-990 tax form from a reporter. 12:06 PM Mar 7th Just about every city pays a flat fee per … Continue reading Best of Twitter 3: My thoughts (non-green)
Best of Twitter series 1: Personal
I tweet a lot more than I write on here, and I hate to leave you as-yet-Twitter-shunners hanging. So much that I share in Twitter might be useful to you, and I can't stand that you'll never see it. The Twitter broadcast on the left sidebar is only so useful, because inevitably you miss 80-90 … Continue reading Best of Twitter series 1: Personal
Local orgs pay for laid-off worker health care
The quasi-public hospital in Wilmington is picking up the brunt of the cost to care for the health of laid-off air park workers — soon to be, possibly, all 8-10,000 of them. The other part of the funding came from DHL itself via the Clinton County Foundation, itself a 501c3 staffed by prominent public figures. … Continue reading Local orgs pay for laid-off worker health care
Ohio libraries in danger
Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland recently announced a proposal to cut state library funding by 30 percent, on top of a 20 percent cut already this year. (Yes, that would total a 50 percent budget cut. And 70 percent of Ohio public libraries use the state as their sole funding source.) I wrote a story about … Continue reading Ohio libraries in danger
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