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Tuesday, April 8, 2008
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Andrew Sullivan: "SUSA In Pennsylvania: One of the polling groups with a good record this season gives Clinton a massive lead."
Pollster.com: "Rasmussen Reports, Pennsylvania, Clinton 48, Obama 43"
"2008 pres"
8:29:33 PM 
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Juan Cole: "So the next thing we hear is that al-Maliki is talking big and demanding that the Mahdi Army be dissolved. Usually you get to talk big if you win the military battle, not if you lose."
"2008 pres"
6:47:07 PM
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Marisa Treviño (via Spot-On): "There are times, these days, when I feel like the boy who cried 'wolf' when I talk about the rampant hysteria against undocumented immigrants that has gripped this country. No one's listening. But it's not because anyone has raised any false alarms.
"2008 pres"
6:32:12 PM
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From The Pueblo Chieftain: "Town and county leaders said Monday that they were surprised to hear that the Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association was considering the prospect of building a nuclear power plant outside of town...Last August, the company secured the site and necessary water rights for a plant that could either be coal-fired or nuclear. Up until now, area leaders said they have been led to believe that the project would be a coal-fired plant and that a nuclear plant was never on the table."
"2008 pres"
6:49:55 AM
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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi was in town yesterday to emphasize the 2008 Democratic National Convention's commitment to the environment according to The Denver Post. From the article:
Democratic officials revealed further details Monday on how they plan to use Denver's hosting of the party's national convention to showcase what they hope to package as their commitment to the environment. The party wants to make its environmental message an example of the kind of leadership it would offer voters in the general elections, and it is springboarding off greening efforts in Denver and an emphasis on renewable energy such as solar and wind statewide. Equating energy security with national security, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the convention's chairwoman, spoke Monday from the Pepsi Center -- site of the convention, and newly committed to wind energy -- to praise the greening initiatives, as well as to lend her support for initiatives surrounding the convention. "It is an environmental issue and a health issue," Pelosi said...It's not about P.R. It's about substance."[...]
The DNCC is working with a company to offer bulk-rate carbon credits to offset emissions, Daughtry said. The delegations that reduce emissions the most will be honored convention week. Individual delegates can win special prizes. In past conventions, going green meant focusing on recycling trash and reducing waste during convention week. Now DNCC officials have joined with Mayor Hickenlooper's Greenprint Denver team and environmentalists working with Denver's host committee to go green early. Both the DNCC and the host committee hired directors to steer greener day-to-day operations. The DNCC is using online booking for hotel stays to keep as much as 100,000 pages from being printed to build the bulky collections of brochures and forms of years past. Its fleet of official cars use flex fuels, though scientists dispute whether those fuels offer an overall reduction in the gases that trap the earth's heat. DNCC employees don't have trash cans in their offices in order to keep them focused on recycling. They're asked not to print what can remain on the screen, and when they do print, it's on both sides of the page. They don't use disposable plastic water bottles at the office. Hickenlooper's teams have held day-long workshops with hotel and restaurant managers on such things as water conservation and energy efficiency. The workshops are meant to instill practices that continue after the parties are over. And when the convention does arrive, Hickenlooper promises recycling opportunities on every corner, local foods highlighted at restaurants, bikes and alternative transportation opportunities and overall "saturation" of greening education.
"2008 pres"
6:40:53 AM
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Last update: 3/15/09; 2:18:39 PM.
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