New Orleans Mike Brune, executive director of the Sierra Club and formerly of the Rainforest Action Network, along with the president of the Club and 46 other people, including some known names, were arrested last week in front the White House in a demonstration opposing the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline to bring tar …
Month: February 2013
Louisiana Saddest State in USA, Damn, That Can’t be Right!
New Orleans Some math nerds from the University of Vermont thinking they would get some publicity for the U of V ran some numbers on ten million Twitter tweets by coding words as “happy” or “sad” and then fixing them on a map to determine which states are the happiest and which are the saddest. …
Protecting Insurance Company Profits under Obamacare
New Orleans I had to read the article by Robert Pear of the New York Times three or four times to completely understand the contradictions that now seem to exist under the new Affordable Care Act or Obamacare. The headline said, “Employers with Healthy Workers Could Opt Out of Insurance Market, Raising Others’ Costs.” What’s …