Detroit owns a piece of my soul, by Denise Oliver Velez An interview that puts the plight of Detroit, Netroots Nation 2014’s host, into perspective, by Egberto Willies Big city living costs more, but still gives you more bang for the buck, by David Jarman Liberal nationalism is not only possible, it's essential, by Ian Reifowitz Born of corruption, why would anyone expect this SCOTUS majority to be anything but corrupt?, by Laurence Lewis The pro-tax evasion, pro-deficits party strikes again, by Jon Perr Detroit: We need to renew the American dream, by Mark E Andersen
An interview that puts the plight of Detroit, Netroots Nation 2014’s host, into perspective, by Egberto Willies
Big city living costs more, but still gives you more bang for the buck, by David Jarman
Liberal nationalism is not only possible, it's essential, by Ian Reifowitz
Born of corruption, why would anyone expect this SCOTUS majority to be anything but corrupt?, by Laurence Lewis
The pro-tax evasion, pro-deficits party strikes again, by Jon Perr
Detroit: We need to renew the American dream, by Mark E Andersen
As news broke last Thursday that Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over separatist-controlled eastern Ukraine, it quickly became known that top-level AIDS researchers and activists were among the dead. Initially it was reported as 100 or more, but that number has now been debunked. At least six are confirmed dead, including the celebrated Dutch AIDS researcher Dr. Joep Lange, 59, who was en route to the world's largest AIDS conference, held this year in Melbourne, Australia. All 298 people on board the flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur were killed. Sunday night's opening ceremony of the 20th International AIDS Conference, a biennial gathering run by the International Aids Society (IAS), was used to pay tribute to the six colleagues, who were honored as some of the brightest minds in the field of HIV research and activism.
Sunday night's opening ceremony of the 20th International AIDS Conference, a biennial gathering run by the International Aids Society (IAS), was used to pay tribute to the six colleagues, who were honored as some of the brightest minds in the field of HIV research and activism.
The combined average temperature over global land and ocean surfaces for June 2014 was the highest on record for the month, at 0.72°C (1.30°F) above the 20th century average of 15.5°C (59.9°F). The global land surface temperature was 0.95°C (1.71°F) above the 20th century average of 13.3°C (55.9°F), the seventh highest for June on record. For the ocean, the June global sea surface temperature was 0.64°C (1.15°F) above the 20th century average of 16.4°C (61.5°F), the highest for June on record and the highest departure from average for any month.
The global land surface temperature was 0.95°C (1.71°F) above the 20th century average of 13.3°C (55.9°F), the seventh highest for June on record.
For the ocean, the June global sea surface temperature was 0.64°C (1.15°F) above the 20th century average of 16.4°C (61.5°F), the highest for June on record and the highest departure from average for any month.
[State Sen. Juan “Chuy”] Hinojosa did not have details of the effort, but an internal memo from another state official’s office said the governor planned to call about 1,000 Texas National Guard troops to the Rio Grande Valley—at a cost of about $12 million per month. [...] “All these politicians coming down to border, they don't care about solving the problem, they just want to make a political point,” [Hinojosa] said.
“All these politicians coming down to border, they don't care about solving the problem, they just want to make a political point,” [Hinojosa] said.
The conservative small government movement has gained momentum based on the principle that decisions are best made at a local level, because people know what they want better than the federal government does. So why is a contingent of small government-minded congressional representatives trying to dick over local governments when it comes to high-speed internet access? I'm talking about the Republican-backed amendment that would make it illegal for local governments to ask the Federal Communications Commission for permission to build their own ultra high-speed, cheap, net neutrality-preserving community broadband networks.
I'm talking about the Republican-backed amendment that would make it illegal for local governments to ask the Federal Communications Commission for permission to build their own ultra high-speed, cheap, net neutrality-preserving community broadband networks.
Until now, the process of legally installing solar panels on a building in Washington has been what it is in most of the U.S.: while there are state and national building codes, each county enforces them differently. What this meant was that the process of putting in solar ranged from the very simple (a solar panel installation was seen as the equivalent of putting on an extra layer of shingles) to the complicated and prolonged (any installation, no matter how much of a no-brainer, required a full set of plans, signed by a licensed structural engineer, which added between $800-$2,500 to the final bill.) Solar installers were spending a lot of time learning about how permits were handled from county to county, and avoiding some areas altogether because the process was so daunting. Then this April, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee issued an executive order to deal with carbon emissions—and that order paved the way for the standardization and simplification of solar permitting.
Then this April, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee issued an executive order to deal with carbon emissions—and that order paved the way for the standardization and simplification of solar permitting.