Despite a lack of MSM coverage, and even bloggy coverage anymore, there’s a ton of grief, hurt and damage emerging from The Gulf. Read all about it.

Food Activist Censored By BP’s Christiane Amanpour Show — by NormanB

Joe Miller, Sarah Palin’s choice candidate for one of Alaska’s Senate seats, does not believe in climate change. That didn’t bother Alaska voters: this week, Miller bested Sen. Lisa Murkowski in the state’s Republican primary. If that weren’t worrisome enough, it also emerged that the fossil fuel industry spent eight times more than environmental groups on lobbying in 2009, the year the House passed the climate change bill. It’s been a bad year already for environmental causes, and as the November election edges closer, progressives might want to start working overtime to regain momentum on climate and energy issues.

Though we live in a world of sound bites and 140-character-driven narratives, life is simply more complex than this.

One hundred days after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded creating the worst environmental disaster in the world’s history, those who live down along the Gulf coast in the areas that have been most impacted are standing strong and reminding the world that, while the well gushing oil may have been capped and while BP CEO Tony Hayward may be going to Siberia, the disaster is not over.

As I step from the airplane onto the accordian walkway I bump into a wall of heat and humidity that I had forgotten existed. July in New Orleans is not hospitable. The thick weather was created for flying cockroaches and alligators not modern, whimpy humans. I am in town for a week to visit with [...]

Making both Corporate America and Average America happy has become a very important political skill. And talking to voters in language that appeals to their values while sending coded messages to their corporate masters has become a very refined art form.

story about the fight to get anyone to hold the charter school explosion to any accountability in New Orleans

Oil in the Rain in New Orleans

2008: BNNTheBadNewsNetwork Rebukes Pres. Bush & Sen. Obama Over New Orleans Destruction — by NormanB (“Deviations from the Norm”)