Montana
Red Herring Bill Threatens Public Lands, Public Health & Jobs
Original Author:
Congressman John Garamendi
Today in America, 14 million people are out of work through no fault of their own,
dragging our economy ever closer to another recession. The first priority of Congress should be to create jobs. The American Jobs Act, which
would add nearly two million jobs to the economy, is being summarily dismissed by the Republican-controlled House of Representatives.
Meanwhile, the GOP leadership asks us to consider absurd bills like H.R. 1505, which this week passed the House Committee on Natural Resources, where I sit as a Member. This legislation will hand over control of all public lands within 100 miles of the borders - like our national parks, forests, and beaches - to U.S. Customs and Border Protections. Ironically, it's named the National Security and Federal Lands Protection Act. Under H.R. 1505, without any public notice, U.S. Customs and Border Protection could build roads and gates and install surveillance equipment in places that Americans treasure - from Glacier National Park in Montana to Cleveland National Forest in California and Olympic National Park in Washington.
Larry Watson, left, author of the best-selling novel, "Montana 1948," is speaking in Shorewood today to kick off a "Shorewood Reads" program in which the whole community is being encouraged to read his book. Elsewhere, they're trying to ban it. Shorewood Patch says:
Shorewood Library Director Beth Carey estimated that the book has been checked out of the library more than 200 times and been read by a number of area book clubs over the last few months...
Montana 1948 has been the featured book in community reading programs numerous times since its publication in 1993, something Watson attributes to the fact that it deals with the kind of moral dilemma that “frequently makes for interesting and productive discussions.”
The novel also has provoked an interesting discussion in Merrill, up the road a piece, where some parents tried to get it banned from high school libraries and out of the curriculum for 10th grade English students.
That effort failed, as the Wausau Daily Herald reports:
Larry Watson, left, author of the best-selling novel, "Montana 1948," is speaking in Shorewood today to kick off a "Shorewood Reads" program in which the whole community is being encouraged to read his book. Elsewhere, they're trying to ban it. Shorewood Patch says:
Shorewood Library Director Beth Carey estimated that the book has been checked out of the library more than 200 times and been read by a number of area book clubs over the last few months...
Montana 1948 has been the featured book in community reading programs numerous times since its publication in 1993, something Watson attributes to the fact that it deals with the kind of moral dilemma that “frequently makes for interesting and productive discussions.”
The novel also has provoked an interesting discussion in Merrill, up the road a piece, where some parents tried to get it banned from high school libraries and out of the curriculum for 10th grade English students.
That effort failed, as the Wausau Daily Herald reports:
US Pipeline Management Not Ready For New National Conduit
Original Author:
(James Rowen)
I've posted any number of
links and items about
fuel pipeline leaks in Wisconsin,
Montana, Michigan, and Canada, and
this weekend the The New York Times catalogued many of these spills as the feds are considering green-lighting the granddaddy pipeline of them all - -
the 1,661-mile Canada-to-Texas Keystone XL tar sand crude link over the biggest underground supply of fresh water in the US.
And finds that government inspections and oversight are woefully lacking.
Not a good prescription for keeping tar sand oil in the line and out of the environment.
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