What happens in Illinois, doesn’t stay in Illinois — especially when you’re dealing with the national ramifications of a combined fracking and coal mining rush unparalleled in recent memory.
Posts By: Jeff Biggers
Speak Now Against the Day in Illinois: Fracking and Coal Rush Are National Crises
What happens in Illinois, doesn’t stay in Illinois — especially when you’re dealing with the national ramifications of a combined fracking and coal mining rush unparalleled in recent memory.
Who Speaks for Illinois on Fracking? Dr. Sandra Steingraber or Sierra Club, Compromising Environmental Groups?
Before environmental lobbyists and legislators push a hydraulic fracking bill through the Illinois legislature, they need to sit down with farmers in Clinton County and learn how well regulations defended their water, farms and cankered lives from the contamination of coal slurry.
Who Speaks for Illinois on Fracking? Dr. Sandra Steingraber or Sierra Club, Compromising Environmental Groups?
Before environmental lobbyists and legislators push a hydraulic fracking bill through the Illinois legislature, they…
Cheering Record Coal Exports, Illinois Gov. Quinn Joins Climate Deniers and Big Coal Mayhem
Within hours of renowned climate scientists announcing a staggering milestone in carbon dioxide emissions, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn rolled out the booster wagons for Big Coal and celebrated his state’s five-fold increase in record coal exports.
Illinois Ranks As Worst Rogue Coal State: Strip Mine Permit To Serial Violator Stuns Residents
Whether she runs for governor or not, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan would need nine lives to bring the…
Immigration Reform: Respect Arizona and Recall Sheriff Arpaio (VIDEO)
While Senate leaders, including Arizona’s John McCain and Jeff Flake, hammered out immigration reform details last month, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio reminded the nation how rogue law enforcement can still undercut legislative efforts for a pathway to citizenship.
March Calls Out Georgia’s National Disgrace: Will Regents Finally End College Ban for Undocumented Students?
The nation is watching: How much longer will Georgia’s Board of Regents uphold a blatantly segregationist state law that has made the Peach State a national disgrace?
Judge Rebukes Arizona in Tucson Desegregation Decree: Will Mexican American Studies Return?
While the long journey for equality in Tucson’s schools has taken a leap forward, questions still abound over what the judicial decision means for the indisputably successful Mexican American Studies curriculum.
Reintroduced ACHE Act Is the No-Brainer Bill of the Year: Will Congress Finally Deal With This Health Emergency?
With the daily silica-laced blizzard from five million pounds of toxic explosives in the background, U.S. Rep. John Yarmuth and Rep. Louise Slaughter reintroduced the biggest no-brainer bill of the year for Congress — the Appalachian Community Health Emergency Act.
Review: Kind of Kin Novel’s Conviction of the Heart — and Immigration Laws
Askew’s fifth novel jumps into the timely debate over immigration with Grandpa Robert John Brown’s "conviction of the heart," written in the rawboned, heartfelt and often funny prose that has defined much of her earlier acclaimed works on the Great Plains.
Immigration Reform Must Begin With Moratorium on Deportations and Recognition of Shattered Families
While the president’s plan included measures to streamline legal immigration and "keep families together," the truth is that the record number of families broken by our flawed immigrant enforcement policy still remains in the shadows of the immigration reform debate.
Nation Watches Tonight: Will Santa Monica Close Down the Only Youth Center Committed to Social Justice Issues?
In a line: The Pico Youth and Family Center should have its budget doubled, and its programs and leadership models replicated across the state of California and the country.
Book of the Year: Clean Break, the Story of Germany’s Energy Transformation — and What Americans Can Learn From It
As we transition into President Obama’s second term, and as coal consumption in the global energy market continues to climb, Clean Break is the most inspiring and downright revelatory book to cross my desk this year.
Freedom College: Prescott School Grants Credits to Outlawed Mexican American Studies Course in Tucson
While fumbling Tucson school officials await the fate of the outlawed Mexican American Studies in a federal court desegregation order, the prestigious Prescott College announced it will grant college-level credit for a banned Chicano/a Literature course.
Why Federal Intervention Matters: Will Mexican American Studies Fiasco in Tucson End in 2013?
2013 will be the year the Mexican American Studies program returns to Tucson for good, as long as the federal courts continue to bring some sanity back to students in Arizona.
Climate Shame: Four Years Later, Capitol Power Plant Still Burns Dirty Coal?
If the U.S. Congress can’t even move off its own use of dirty energy — so symbolically small — is it any wonder that the annual UN climate talks result in such pathetic action?
Watershed Victory Against Big Coal Nears! Illinois Town Celebrates Proposed Denial of Strip Mine Permit
After waging a tireless six-year campaign in the historic Spoon River region of central Illinois, residents in the small town of Canton are celebrating a state hearing officer’s proposed denial of a permit to a rogue coal company for a devastating stripmine.
Arizona Celebrates Week Without Governor Brewer or Her Gaffes
While it is not clear if Acting Governor Bennett, who once challenged the validity of President Obama’s birth certificate in Hawaii, can refrain from carrying on Brewer’s weekly gaffes, the state is hopeful.
Alleged gunman’s GOP pal
Updated: The neo-Nazi who allegedly killed five people was once praised as a “true patriot” by Russell Pearce
Tucson says banished books may return to classrooms
Teachers charge censorship as Mexican-American studies ban goes into effect


