These are the stories I recommend reading for July 27th 2010 through July 28th 2010:
- What Do You Lack? Probably Vitamin D: NY Times – Studies indicate that the effects of a vitamin D deficiency include an elevated risk of developing (and dying from) cancers of the colon, breast and prostate; high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease; osteoarthritis; and immune-system abnormalities that can result in infections and autoimmune disorders like multiple sclerosis, Type 1 diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis. – health
- House Approves Money for Wars, but Rift Deepens: NY Times – The House of Representatives agreed on Tuesday to provide $59 billion to continue financing America’s two wars, but the vote showed deepening divisions and anxiety among Democrats over the course of the nearly nine-year-old conflict in Afghanistan. – afghanistan congress
- Water Board Sends Two Desalination Issues to Ballot: Marin IJ – The controversial desalination issue is again heating up after the water board decided to put its own measure on the November ballot addressing the issue. The measure only arose after a citizens initiative successfully qualified a desalination issue for the ballot just last month. During a heated special water agency meeting Monday night, supporters of the initiative said the district put up a measure as way to obstruct the public effort to halt the desalination process. – marin desalination 2010 campaigns
- NASA Says It’s the Hottest Year on Record: McClatchy – Scientists at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies reported recently that the average global temperature was higher over the past 12 months than during any other 12-month period in history. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has released corroborating data, adding that the past four months, including June, have each individually been the hottest on record as well. – climatechange globalwarming weather
- Kearney to Run for Petaluma Council: SR Press Democrat – – petaluma 2010 campaigns
- Frank Rich: ‘Why Has He Fallen Short?’: The New York Review of Books – The Obama of Hope and Change was too tough an act for Obama, a mere chief executive, to follow. Only Hollywood might have the power to create a superhero who could fulfill the messianic dreams kindled by his presence and rhetoric, maintain the riveting drama of his unlikely ascent, and sustain the national mood of deliverance that greeted his victory. As soon as Inauguration Day turned to night, the real Obama was destined to depreciate like the shiny new luxury car that starts to lose its book value the moment it’s driven off the lot. – obama
- 22 Statistics That Prove The Middle Class Is Being Systematically Wiped Out Of Existence In America – The 22 statistics that you are about to read prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the middle class is being systematically wiped out of existence in America.The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer at a staggering rate. Once upon a time, the United States had the largest and most prosperous middle class in the history of the world, but now that is changing at a blinding pace. – economics economy wealth capitalism middle-class
- Cities View Homesteads as a Source of Income: NY Times – Around the nation, cities and towns facing grim budget circumstances are grasping at unlikely — some would say desperate — means to bolster their shrunken tax bases. Like Beatrice, places like Dayton, Ohio, and Grafton, Ill., are giving away land for nominal fees or for nothing in the hope that it will boost the tax rolls and cut the lawn-mowing bills. – revenue cities local land realestate
