Kate Sheppard

Not to be missed, Katha Pollitt has a response to the inane Charlotte Allen piece last weekend that generated so much well-deserved outrage. In her rebuttal, Pollitt manages to point out the absurdities of things Allen claims as “facts” about how dumb all us broads are: Allen claims that the misogynist canard is true: thanks […]

The leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention are set to release “A Southern Baptist Declaration on the Environment and Climate Change” today, a statement that proclaims that “the time for timidity regarding God’s creation is no more.” Just a year ago, the convention issued a resolution questioning whether human activity has a significant effect on […]

Another big blow to the coal industry this week: the federal government announced that they’re indefinitely suspending a loan program for new coal-fired power plants in rural areas. That’s right, even the Bush administration has realized that coal power is not a sound investment. While they’ve issued $1.3 billion in federal loans for new plants […]

Hillary Clinton‘s victories this week have reinvigorated discussion about what to do about the Michigan and Florida delegates. Florida Democratic Party Chairwoman Karen L. Thurman issued this statement last night on the state of the nominating process: We thank Governors Crist and Granholm for supporting the effort to have the votes of more than five […]

Since Dana and I were both discussing the subject of rising housing costs and gentrification yesterday, I should point readers to Christopher Leinberger‘s excellent piece in this month’s Atlantic about the effects of the increased demand for housing in urban areas: Pent-up demand for urban living is evident in housing prices. Twenty years ago, urban […]

I was struck by the same I was struck by the same exit poll numbers that Addie pointed out, but she misreads them somewhat. It wasn’t that 59 percent of all Clinton voters said that yes, race was important to them. Twenty percent of all voters in Ohio said that race was important, and of […]

Since NAFTA and trade have been on the lips of both Since NAFTA and trade have been on the lips of both Obama and Clinton in Ohio for the past two weeks, and I was pointing out the value of reevaluating the labor and environmental standards, I should direct you to a fair point by […]

I’m admittedly conflicted about these global warming bills that seem likely to pass in Washington state. One bill calls for sharp state-wide reductions in greenhouse gases by 2050 and measures to reduce the number of miles vehicles in the state drive each year by half. A second bill calls for tolls to be used to […]

If you live in northwest Washington, D.C., the talk of the town for the past few months has been the giant retail center slated to open in Columbia Heights this month that will include a Target and a Best Buy. The retail center is smack in the middle of a neighborhood that is traditionally African […]

Speaking of their Speaking of their multi-million dollar campaign to keep America reliant on coal, “Americans for Balanced Energy Choices” has taken their efforts to Ohio for this week’s primary, where they’ve taken out a number of TV, radio, and print ads to emphasize that “coal is important to Ohio.” Perhaps the classiest of them […]