U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service A rare photograph taken earlier this month of a Florida panther and her two kittens is making the e-mail rounds among wildlife biologists and conservation partners who have toiled for decades to restore the big cat’s habitat. The photo, taken from an airplane above Picayune Strand near Naples, captures the…
Daily Archives: April 1, 2010
Living in a Land of Rising Right-Wing Hate
Editor’s Note: This article was originally funded by and published at Truthout.org, but for unknown reasons, it does not appear to be in the searchable archives anymore. When this was discovered on Monday, October 24, 2011, we re-published it here. by Glynn Wilson Northeast Jefferson County east of Birmingham, Alabama, has long been known as…
Newton Endorses Perkins for Attorney General of Alabama
Speaker Pro Tempore Demetrius Newton, who is the first African American to serve as Speaker of the Alabama House of Representatives, has officially endorsed Giles Perkins for Attorney General and will assist Perkins in his bid as the Jefferson County Chair for the campaign, according to a press release from the Perkins campaign. Newton, who…
March Madness: Armed Protests Planned for DC
This Ain’t No April Fool’s Day Joke… Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Note to FBI: Take names and put that domestic spying program to good use for a change…
Alabama Legislature Uses Bible to Redefine Pi
HUNTSVILLE, Ala., The Associalized Press — NASA engineers and mathematicians in this high-tech city are stunned and infuriated after the Alabama state legislature narrowly passed a law yesterday redefining pi, a mathematical constant used in the aerospace industry. The bill to change the value of pi to exactly three was introduced without fanfare by Leonard…
