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An Update on the Summit on Sustainability
Much thanks to The Town Talk for their editorial about the City’s upcoming Summit on Sustainability. Quoting (bold mine): This will be an important event, whether you are new to the conversation or have been engaged for some time. Sustainability means “meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” So says “Our Common Future,” a United Nations report from 1987. The concept of sustainable development, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, marries two important themes: that environmental protection does not preclude economic development and that economic development be ecologically…
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Two Quick Questions
Background. From the Times-Picayune: Ryan and Kourtney Fournier of Jefferson submitted paperwork to the Secretary of State’s office that allows them to attempt to collect the nearly 1 million signatures needed over the next 180 days to force a recall election of the governor. The papers were mailed Thursday and arrived Friday. Ryan Fournier, 32, said he is a registered Republican and was “a huge supporter for Bobby.“ Outside of California, do these things ever work? By the way, they’d have to get around 300,000 more signatures than Bobby Jindal got votes. And Does anyone else find the breaking news…
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George Carlin
America just lost one of its most probing, insightful, challenging, and brilliant voices— a man who unabashedly critiqued convention with a compassionate conviction. From the NY Times: He (George Carlin) quit high school to join the Air Force in the mid-’50s and, while stationed in Shreveport, La., worked as a radio disc jockey. Discharged in 1957, he set out to pursue his boyhood dream of becoming an actor and comic. He moved to Boston where he met and teamed up with Jack Burns, a newscaster and comedian. The team worked on radio stations in Boston, Fort Worth, and Los Angeles,…
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