WaPo:

The lead author and peer reviewers of a government report raising the possibility of public health threats from industrial contamination throughout the Great Lakes region are charging that the report is being suppressed because of the questions it raises. The author also alleges that he was demoted because of the report.

Chris De Rosa, former ( Read more... )

…a very disconnected week.  My sister-in-law (Susan’s brother’s wife) just had a major death in her large family back in SW Minnesota, near Sioux Falls, and the entire clan (my BIL, SIL and their four kids) are on their way through nasty weather to ‘home’ for the wake and funeral.  The family’s pretty distraught; the death was long expected but ( Read more... )

Some seriously good items on how the horrible economic picture courtesy of Dubya’s Gang Who Can’t Shoot Straight is starting to seriously impact people on a day to day basis. But first, a personal note.
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The present altered schedule for us three going out to Detroit to (1) deliver frozen stuff and (2) pick up my MIL, and probably (3) go to the zoo and (4) Windsor is not this weekend, but the weekend of the 26th-28th of October.  FYI.

As noted earlier, the next month will be a busy one around here for a number of events.

First, Mere and Susan are leaving on Thursday morning for a trip to Alabama - and Sissy is breathlessly waiting. We got a postcard from Sissy telling us so. I wish I could go, but that’s another big chunk of money that we can’t afford, etc. They’ll be back ( Read more... )