Comments on: The Top Stories and People of 2009 http://blog.locustfork.net/2009/12/the-top-stories-and-people-of-2009/ A Wide Open Weblog for Big News, the Big Picture Wed, 23 May 2012 19:13:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Glynn Wilson http://blog.locustfork.net/2009/12/the-top-stories-and-people-of-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-3762 Glynn Wilson Fri, 01 Jan 2010 20:04:39 +0000 http://blog.locustfork.net/?p=5745#comment-3762 If they only knew, eh Robby? If they only knew, eh Robby?

]]> By: Robby Scott Hill http://blog.locustfork.net/2009/12/the-top-stories-and-people-of-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-3761 Robby Scott Hill Fri, 01 Jan 2010 02:55:42 +0000 http://blog.locustfork.net/?p=5745#comment-3761 I'm in agreement with Glynn that the silver lining to the cloud of the 2000s is the election of Barack Obama. 2009 began with President Obama admonishing Alabama's Good Ol' Boys at the Goodyear Plant in Gadsden by signing the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act into law. By the end of the year, a health care reform bill had passed both houses of Congress and is poised to end the near monopoly of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama. That's change The Workers of Alabama can believe in. I’m in agreement with Glynn that the silver lining to the cloud of the 2000s is the election of Barack Obama. 2009 began with President Obama admonishing Alabama’s Good Ol’ Boys at the Goodyear Plant in Gadsden by signing the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act into law. By the end of the year, a health care reform bill had passed both houses of Congress and is poised to end the near monopoly of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama. That’s change The Workers of Alabama can believe in.

]]> By: Glynn Wilson http://blog.locustfork.net/2009/12/the-top-stories-and-people-of-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-3760 Glynn Wilson Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:04:29 +0000 http://blog.locustfork.net/?p=5745#comment-3760 Of course there were other important stories in 2009, but none that transcended from the local to the regional to the national interest like the coal ash story. This local story was pretty interesting, however, since it put the final nail in the coffin of the Birmingham Water Works board plan to dam the Locust Fork River. <a href="http://blog.locustfork.net/2009/08/20/water-works-sells-locust-fork-land/" rel="nofollow">Water Works Sells Locust Fork Land</a> It was also a clear demonstration of the power of the Web Press. We asked the tough questions and reported critically. Members of the public responded. Government conceded. That is the stuff Public Service Pulitzers are made of for print. Now we just need an online media category : ) Of course there were other important stories in 2009, but none that transcended from the local to the regional to the national interest like the coal ash story.

This local story was pretty interesting, however, since it put the final nail in the coffin of the Birmingham Water Works board plan to dam the Locust Fork River.

Water Works Sells Locust Fork Land

It was also a clear demonstration of the power of the Web Press. We asked the tough questions and reported critically. Members of the public responded. Government conceded. That is the stuff Public Service Pulitzers are made of for print. Now we just need an online media category : )

]]> By: Glynn Wilson http://blog.locustfork.net/2009/12/the-top-stories-and-people-of-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-3759 Glynn Wilson Thu, 31 Dec 2009 03:32:26 +0000 http://blog.locustfork.net/?p=5745#comment-3759 Guess I missed that one Tom... Guess I missed that one Tom…

]]> By: Tom Campbell http://blog.locustfork.net/2009/12/the-top-stories-and-people-of-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-3758 Tom Campbell Thu, 31 Dec 2009 02:24:50 +0000 http://blog.locustfork.net/?p=5745#comment-3758 I don't claim to know too much. But when a grown man wears a pair of panties with an exploding Kotex in the crotch, I'd out that one the list. I don’t claim to know too much. But when a grown man wears a pair of panties with an exploding Kotex in the crotch, I’d out that one the list.

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