advocacy: April 2006 Archives
By 2085, Aspen's climate and snowpack could be a lot like that in Santa Fe, N.M.: Eighteen degrees warmer, 43 percent less snow pack and shorter ski seasons. What sounds surreal is the Elk Mountains' 80-year prediction, and similar fates await all Rocky Mountain ski resorts, according to a Colorado College report.
The State of the Rockies report, released this week, details the Rockies' environmental condition and is the first to focus on recreational activities. By 2085, resorts such as Alta, Snowbird, Telluride and Taos are predicted to have around 85 percent less than their current snowpack totals, while northern Rocky resorts such as Big Sky and Jackson Hole will have 25 to 30 percent less.
The Free Press -- Independent News Media - Election Issues
Are mainstream churches finally standing up to the GOP's hateful "Christian" blitzkrieg?
by Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman
April 9, 2006
Right-wing church movements have been a staple of American politics since well before the 1692 witch trials at Salem. But only in the past few decades has the extremist church served as the grassroots base for a new breed of corporate totalitarianism. That unholy union has been nowhere more powerful than here in Ohio, and it has finally provoked a response from the state's mainstream churches.
With huge torrents of cash from Richard Mellon Scaife, the Ahmanson family and other super-rich ultra-rightists, the fundamentalist church has formed the popular network that has spawned the Bush catastrophe. The totalitarian alliance between pulpit, corporation and military is unique in U.S. history.
