No Politician Left Behind: Letter to the Maverick—Arizona Now Outlaws Hats

Weekly Mulch: Kicking Our Addiction to AC—Why DC Needs to Step Up

by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger

This summer, Americans are cranking up their air conditioning. At the same time, Senators are letting climate legislation cool its heels in Washington. Ultimately, both of these summer trends are contributing to climate change. Air conditioning dumps greenhouse gases into the environment, and without climate legislation that caps the country’s carbon emissions, America’s share of global carbon levels will only continue to grow.

While Congress remains deadlocked on health reform, some state legislators are working to make it more difficult for women to access health care and much easier for states to put them, and the people who help them, in jail.

Written by Lynn Paltrow and Farah Diaz-Tello for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice.

By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium Blogger

President Barack Obama’s February 25 health care summit, where he will appear on TV with Republican leaders, has been hailed and assailed as yet another gesture towards bipartisanship. But the summit is really a delaying tactic. It’s a decoy, something shiny to keep the chattering classes entertained while Congressional Democrats wheel and deal furiously behind the scenes.

One teenager with an addicted and incarcerated mother writes an open letter to two other teens whose mother has just pleaded guilty to drug charges. The fact that one of them used to be engaged to Sarah Palin’s daughter is actually irrelevant.

Article in a very conservative periodical often cited by the politicians.

Prison or rehab? Which would YOU choose?

Shopping Addiction

The President’s final grades. Think they’ll hang it on the fridge?

MPP answers your questions about marijuana.