The management and editorial staff of Red Crow News are pleased to announce the receipt of their Poetic License. “It’s rare for such a fledgling organization to be honored so early in its operation,” acknowledged Mickey Friedman, a writer and…
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Owl vs Owl (and Us): Fair or Foul?
Every once in a while in our on-going, seemingly inexorable march to eliminate large swatches of nature’s bounty: the inland glaciers of Montana, Chile, China, Europe, the rainforest, the ice of the Arctic and Antarctic and a multitude of species,…
Robin Hood & the 400 Richest Families
Thanks to the folks at United for A Fair Economy (UFE), we now have a pretty good idea what Robin Hood might do with the wealth of the richest 400 families in America. Turns out they’re not really rich, they’re…
Don’t Straighten Your Hair in A House With Plywood and While You’re At It Avoid that Plastic Foam Coffee Cup
According to U.S. National Toxicology Program’s Report on Carcinigens, formaldehyde causes cancer and styrene is a possible carcinogen. The finding, according to the New York Times: was delayed for years because of intense lobbying from the chemical industry, which disputed…
Bankers: Taking It To The Bank
The Berkshire Eagle reports that Berkshire Hills Bancorp, the parent company of Berkshire Bank – one of the strongest supporters of 1Berkshire and The Smart Cleanup Coalition – has recently been given permission by the United States Justice Department to…
Supreme Court: No To GE Challenge of Superfund
Rising Pond, Housatonic, MA – Site of Possible GE PCB Dump In a move that has significant ramifications for the multi-million dollar PCB-cleanups of the Hudson and Housatonic rivers, the United States Supreme Court decided not to hear arguments in…