How to Help Iranian Protestors
June 30, 2009 | 02:31 PM | 1 Comment
The incomparable Electronic Frontiers Foundation has a great web site explaining how you can directly help Iranian internet users: Set up a TOR Bridge or a TOR relay.
If you understand what...
read more »Does Beth Krom Have a Chance?
June 30, 2009 | 12:05 PM | 7 Comments
A major fundraising milestone looms for Beth Krom: she needs to raise $250,000 by the end of this month. Can she raise that much? and if she does, will it matter? As I explain in detail below,...
read more »Greenpeace opposes the Cap-and-Tax Abomination
June 26, 2009 | 02:43 PM | 0 Comments
Greenepeace officially opposes HR 2454, the Waxman-Markey cap-and-tax bill coming to a vote. This is good news for two reasons.
First, this vote is going to be close, see I'll...
read more »C4L, Cap & Trade, and John Campbell
June 25, 2009 | 09:18 PM | 6 Comments
Campaign for Liberty ("C4L") , the Ron Paul-inspired group, is doing great work opposing the "cap and trade" abomination being forced through the Congres. Yesterday...
read more » State yanks yet more money Irvine Schools
June 23, 2009 | 01:04 AM | 1 Comment
Sacramento wants to grab Irvine's "excess" property taxes, forcing the school board to cut another $7 million by June 30 in addition to $11 million IUSD had already made as...
read more »"This will be Good"
June 20, 2009 | 06:39 PM | 2 Comments
My neighbor Reza has extensive family in Shiraz. After I saw the horrific youTube footage, I asked "Reza, how is your family in Shiraz?"
He said, "I just got off the phone...
read more »The Revolution, by the Numbers
June 19, 2009 | 12:32 PM | 2 Comments
IranTracker.org has a fantastic post with day-by-day figures for protest size, number of deaths, etc.
The picture at the top of the page is a great story in itself. That Green rally is in...
read more »See how your city wants to (ab)use stimulus money
June 09, 2009 | 11:56 PM | 1 Comment
Fiscal watchdog Francine Verbarg pointed me to stimulus watch, a great site to see how local officials are pursuing fiscal stimulus money.
The site was started by a non-partisan group including...
read more »Why the Great Park is Lawyering-up
June 08, 2009 | 11:25 AM | 4 Comments
As part of its fantastic coverage of the Great Park, Sean Emery of The OC Register posted Thursday Great Park tries to keep contamination info under wrap. Sean raised the concern that the Great...
read more »Irvine City Council Race Begins
June 04, 2009 | 07:17 PM | 2 Comments
The 2010 Irvine City Counciil race kicked-off last week when Beth Krom endorsed Shiva Farivar in a letter to supporters. Shiva is currently Beth's appointee to Irvine Community Services Commission...
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