Food waste appears to be a hot new topic this year, which is actually something I am really excited about. Not food waste—I find the volume of food wasted in the West horrific—but that people are talking about it, and more than that, thinking about ways to directly address it, rather than trying to shovel …
Tag Archives: environmental issues
Hooked Gremlins
Gigi Generaux at Las Vegas City Life: Abject professors Next Monday, Sam Hollister will commute between all three CSN campuses to teach three undergraduate courses in one day. Spencer Wilking at New York Press: To Serve, to Protect and…to Steal The bargain shopping came to an end when “Alirla” was revealed to be Pythias Brown, …
Luscious Ostriches
Emily Mills at Isthmus: Jobs? Why would Wisconsin Republicans work to create jobs? In this rough economy, when Gov. Walker’s campaign cry was “jobs, jobs, jobs,” what has the state GOP moved to the forefront? Tom Ferrick Jr. and Jacob Lambert at Philadelphia City Paper: The Ballad of Red Dog “Red Dog,” as he is …
Filmy Saws
Jackson Baker at Memphis Flyer: Teachable Moments The core of the case is a suit by Shelby County Schools, with the state of Tennessee as an associated party, against the Memphis City Council, MCS, and the Shelby County Commission, asking for a declaratory judgment against an ongoing effort to proceed with immediate MCS-SCS consolidation. Lance …
Screaming Maples
Alastair Bland at East Bay Express: The Slow Death of Mushrooms The reasons for the decline, he speculates, are manyfold — including development, deforestation, and overgrazing by pigs and deer. Denis C. Theriault at Portland Mercury: Give the FBI a Chance? And after Mayor Sam Adams last week submitted his long-awaited plan for ending the …
Interested Lemmings
Matt Davis at Portland Mercury: An Opaque Revolving Door That’s because Stern was offered the job over the wood stove in the Northeast Portland living room of Dave Austin, Multnomah County Chair Jeff Cogen’s communications director, on March 29. Melissa Daugherty at Chico News and Review: What will be the fate of the mustang? Virtually …
Furry Hooks
Bob Doran at North Coast Journal: Mr. Dave He favors instruments you’re probably not familiar with: the caz, the Weissenborn lap guitar, cittern, gumbu, charango and zither. Nate Seltenrich at East Bay Express: The Cruel Irony of the Oakland Zoo Expansion Environmentalists also contend that the zoo, an organization ostensibly dedicated to conservation, is trying …
Papery Cameras
Neil Morris at Indyweek: Career Award winners Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern review the first part of their legacy Their careers have become so inseparable that they will jointly receive Full Frame’s Career Award, bestowed in past years to such documentary stars as Ross McElwee, Ken Burns, William Greaves, Marcel Ophuls and Albert Maysles. Margot …
Screaming Torches
Alex Garcia-Ditta at Texas Observer: Ill-Conceived Crusade If right-to-life groups have their way, thousands of low-income women would lose access to family planning, experts in the field say, leading to more unplanned pregnancies and likely to more abortions. David Cay Johnston at Association of Alternative Newsweeklies: 9 Things The Rich Don’t Want You To Know …
Reversed Dorks
Staff at The Stranger: It Gets Worse Seventeen thousand people losing health care, scores of elderly people forced into nursing homes, emergency rooms packed with refugees from state health care programs, a 13 percent jump in tuition, and class sizes skyrocketing. Joe Eskenazi at SF Weekly: Double Drain: Program Pays Cops Pensions While Still on …
