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• Illinois residents express fear

  
  Try 2 Focus — Authority: 515
  Who wouldn’t?  Especially considering terrorists are about to be moved within 200 miles of a major metropolis. Emotions ran high Tuesday at a hearing that gave the state’s residents their first chance to weigh in on a plan to bring terror suspects from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba , to a rural western Illinois prison ...
  18 hours ago

• Pathway

  
  Dusty Lens - North Metro and Beyond — Authority: 126
  A stone pathway leads us to the Stone Arch Bridge along the Mississippi River. Today is the Winter Solstice - the shortest day of the year. That means starting tomorrow, the days grow longer; spring is here! http://feeds.feedburner.com/RobsDustyLens
  2 days ago

• Vicksburg CBC: Exciting waterbirds abound

  
  Search and Serendipity — Authority: 114
  VICKSBURG, MISS. — Yesterday, Bruce Reid, Blaine Elliott, and I birded a small but extremely productive section of the Vicksburg Christmas Bird Count circle. We were joined at various times by John and Len Carpenter and by The Vicksburg Post’s Pam Hitchins and Katie Carter (see their story and photo gallery ). ...
  3 days ago

• Playwrights Foundation- Musical Reading of New Marcus Gardley Play

  
  The Brainpan — Authority: 142
  Musical Reading of New Marcus Gardley Play Join Us December 19 for This Open-Process Reading Please join us for a musical reading of …and Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi directed by Amy Mueller. This brilliant new work by Gardley is set on the banks of the Mississippi River and woven through with music and ...
  6 days ago

• Illinois prison for terror suspects to be tighter than “supermax”

  
  Political Fix — Authority: 599
  WASHINGTON — The  Thomson Correctional Center  in northen Illinois near the Mississippi River where the government intends to house Guantanamo terror suspects already has dual-sided electric stun fencing, hundreds of cameras and inner and outer towers with armed guards. Preparing it for the Guantanamo ...
  1 week ago

• Flying Feast

  
  Davenport Library Info Cafe — Authority: 125
  If you spend a little time in the regional news , you might know the spread of the Asian Carp has reached epidemic levels.  It has the discriminating diet of a billygoat and the reproductive powers of a bunny rabbit.    It is a hearty old beast, reaching up to 40 pounds apiece by eating nearly half their weight ...
  1 week ago

• Brad Pitts Green Building Boom - I

  
  CNN.com - Most Popular — Authority: 793
  Brad Pitt’s Green Building Boom  - Part I   By NEAL MOORE   NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA (CNN iReport)   Considered one of the most famous neighborhoods in America, New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward is presently undergoing a transformation from the poster child of post-Katrina devastation into the epitome of ...
  1 week ago

• Brad Pitts Green Building Boom - II

  
  CNN.com - Most Popular — Authority: 793
    Brad Pitt’s Green Building Boom - Part II   By NEAL MOORE   NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA (CNN iReport)   Considered one of the most famous neighborhoods in America, New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward is presently undergoing a transformation from the poster child of post-Katrina devastation into the epitome of ...
  1 week ago

• 12/09/09 4:42 PM

  
  Your New Favorite — Authority: 129
  12/09/09 4:42 PM [IMG: http://7.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kui8m08sq81qz6k80o1_500.jpg]
  1 week ago

• Across The Mississippi

  
  Twin Cities Daily Photo | One Photo Per Day Around The Twin Cities Metro Area — Authority: 125
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  1 week ago

• I am an Italian American

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 461
  HUGO My roots are deep in an ancient soil, drenched by the Mediterranean sun, and watered by pure streams from snow capped mountains. I am enriched by thousands of years of culture. My hands are those of the mason, the artist, the man of the soil. My thoughts have been recounted in the annals of Rome , the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Take a Leap down Memory Lane

  
  The UrbanWire — Authority: 426
  As the first hand-drawn 2D Disney animation after a drought of 5 years, The Princess and The Frog certainly exceeds expectations. After classics like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs , Pinocchio , The Little Mermaid and many more, the world grieved a little when Disney announced that Home on the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Massive Carp Kills

  
  Black Bear Blog — Authority: 485
  Officials are poisoning waterways in order to kill massive numbers of Asian carp, an invasive species that threatens the multi-billion dollar Great Lakes fishing industry. The poisoning also collaterally kills thousands of other fish species. Critics want to know if this is the right thing to be doing? Tom ...
  2 weeks ago

• US liable for Katrina damages

  
  Saxe Environmental Law News — Authority: 134
  I have predicted for years that governments may be liable for damages that will occur when the predictable effects of climate change overwhelm existing infrastructure. Last month,  the Eastern District of Louisiana held the US government liable for $719,698 to owners of four homes flooded by Hurricane Katrina, ...
  2 weeks ago

• US liable for Katrina damages

  
  Saxe Environmental Law News — Authority: 134
  I have predicted for years that governments may be liable for damages that will occur when the predictable effects of climate change overwhelm existing infrastructure. Last month,  the Eastern District of Louisiana held the US government liable for $719,698 to owners of four homes flooded by Hurricane Katrina, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Carp threat hurts steel barging

  
  Breakbulk Industry News — Authority: 133
  Efforts by Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm to close the Grand Calumet River in Illinois have come under fire from the tugboat, towboat and barge industry. Closing the Chicago shipping channel and any locks would negatively impact barge movement, according to a spokeswoman for the American Waterways Operators. The ...
  2 weeks ago

• Mississippi Delta Landscape: a Reading

  
  View from Federal Twist — Authority: 106
  (These photos are very wide. Click to see the full panoramic view.) The Mississippi Delta, so the saying goes, begins in the lobby of the Peabody Hotel in Memphis and ends on Catfish Row in Vicksburg, a distance of some 200 miles. It is really an alluvial plain, not a delta, and was flooded every year for ...
  2 weeks ago

• Father Jacques Marquette

  
  PA Pundits - International — Authority: 560
  By Bill Federer Father Jacques Marquette arrived in Quebec from France to be a missionary among the Indians. Governor Frontenac commissioned him to explore the unknown Mississippi River. In 1673, he traveled with explorer Louis Joliette by canoe from Lake Michigan, across Green Bay, up Fox River to the Wisconsin ...
  2 weeks ago

• Daily Haze: Get Ready for Week 13 and Beyond

  
  The Hazean — Authority: 501
  Blaine is off today as heads up the Mississippi River to Memphis to run in the St. Jude 5K tomorrow morning. He and his wife made the trip up I-55 and I wish them the best of luck this weekend. His absence, though, really makes me realize just how long it has been since I had to write a Friday Daily Haze on my own. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Four months, Twenty-Two days later – New Orleans

  
  CNN.com - Most Popular — Authority: 793
  Four months, Twenty-Two days later - New Orleans   By NEAL MOORE   NEW ORLEANS, LA (CNN iReport)  --  Fought severe weather to guide “The Andrea” safely into New Orleans. Wind and waves and rain and a plethora of barges and tankers as well as borderline hypothermia couldn’t keep me from this fine town. ...
  2 weeks ago

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