BY ED FELIEN U.S. military involvement since World War II has been an unbroken chain of failed adventures meant to prop up dictators, overthrow democracies and fight for the interests of Big Business and Big Oil: The Belgian Congo, Vietnam, Iran, Guatemala, Indonesia, Afghanistan, Iraq, etc. But, now, for the…
BY CARLA WALDEMAR Le Town Talk 2707 E. Lake Street 612-353-5398 www.letowntalk.com Remember that classic Lake Street diner with the multi-lightbulb marquee, Town Talk? Well, it’s still chattering, all right, but today the talk is French. Parlez-vous comfort food, Parisian style? And at very comfortable prices? Then welcome to the…
BY POLLY MANN Can King Coal come clean? This probably won’t receive too much attention, but it should: Canada has recently produced the world’s first commercial coal-fired power plant equipped with carbon capture and storage technology. The Boundary Dam plant in Saskatchewan promises to cut carbon dioxide emissions by 90%. …
BY WENDY HAAN, MINNESTOA CITIZENS FOR THE PROTECTION OF MIGRATORY BIRDS Bird advocates went before the Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority Friday morning, Oct. 10, urging the panel to order bird-safe, energy efficient glass for the new Vikings stadium under construction on a major migratory bird corridor. Experts agree the 200,000…
BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE One of the great features of Twin Cities life is the incredible selection of entertainment and celebration options around the winter holidays. Mindful that there are loads of newspaper and online guides to the holidays out there, we are going to focus—not exclusively, but largely—on the…
BY LARA NORKUS-CRAMPTON Energy and environmental consultant Alan Muller recently submitted a letter to Hennepin County, invoking the Data Practices Act, to ask for information on significant financial expenditures and reinvestments totaling hundreds of millions of dollars to promote and sustain our 26-year-old Garbage Burner, HERC. http://www.alanmuller.com/?p=382 His letter was…
The name of the eminent physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, who died on Oct. 24, would probably not be remembered by many people born after 1954. Oppenheimer was tried and denied a clearance by the Atomic Energy Commission after 19 days of secret hearings. Now, with recent reclassification of material from…
