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Monthly Archives: September 2010
Alabama Will Face Penn State Without Mark Ingram
Time Out by Dan Rutledge Hurrah … there will be some “real” games on the Week Two 2010 SEC football season schedule. Although there was a full slate of 12 games last week with all league schools in action against out-of-conference foes, there wasn’t a “real” game among them. The closest was Kentucky’s win over…
Will the Nutty Florida Preacher Burn the Quran, or Not?
How Far Will the Mainstream Media Go to Stumble All Over Themselves to ‘Get’ the Story? The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c
Thousands of People Along the Gulf Coast Suffer ‘BP Crud’
The Untold Story of Human Health Effects From BP’s Oil Disaster Editor’s Note: The Washington Post was given an opportunity for first, exclusive rights to publish this story Tuesday, but took a pass “because of the complicated nature of this story and our concerns that it’s too early to judge the real health effects.” Due…
Earn Spot.Us Credits Discussing Issues of ‘Public Media’
As we move forward in the Internet Age, Spot.Us, along with the help of its generous sponsors, has been trying to understand the changing world of journalism. After the last survey, we learned what the community thought about objectivity in journalism. Now, we’ve got another hot-button issue to tackle: Private or Public? In exchange for…
President Obama Says the Fight for America’s Workers Continues on Labor Day
“Got a lot of hardworking people here,” President Barack Obama told the fired up crowd at Laborfest in Milwaukee, urging them to calm down and get comfortable. “You deserve to sit down for a day. You’ve been on your feet all year working hard.” The President spoke about what the Labor movement has meant for…
Video: BP Gulf Oil Disaster Recap
This is part one of a two part 17 minute film featuring highlights from day 49 to 114 of the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. “There wasn’t transparency or proper organization from either BP or the government and now it appears that most of the oil was simply sank or dispersed throughout…
Three Ways Facebook is Killing Your Website
by Jay Baer Convince&Convert The game used to be relatively simple. Build a website. Make it useful and at least moderately pleasing to the eye. Keep it updated. Make your content at least semi-friendly for search engines. Bingo! A digital marketing success story. Not now. Like print newspapers, basketball players under 6 feet tall, and…
BP to Provide $10 Million to Study Health Issues From Gulf Oil Disaster
BP announced Tuesday the company will provide $10 million to the National Institutes of Health under its Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative to support a study of potential public health issues relating to the Gulf oil disaster. The research initiative is a 10-year, $500 million independent research program established by BP to better understand and…
From The Gulf Stream To The Bloodstream
The Video BP Doesn’t Want You To See Gavin Garrison, Matt Smith, and Heather Rally for Project Gulf Impact. Several volatile hydrocarbons found in crude oil were detected in the blood of several residents of Orange Beach, Alabama. Among the hydrocarbons tested, several were detected at abnormally high levels including ethylbenzene, xylene, hexane. These individuals…
Community Health Forum in Orange Beach Tuesday
There will be a community forum for the public concerned about health effects from the BP oil spill on Tuesday, Sept. 7, in Orange Beach Alabama. We have a story about this issue in the pipeline at Spot.us if any news organization wants to talk about running it. Here’s the flyer for the event.
Gulf Restoration Network Update on BP’s Oil Drilling Disaster
We caught up with Aaron Viles with the Gulf Restoration Network in New Orleans the other day and filmed this update with the latest information on the BP oil drilling disaster as well as a factual briefing on the Mississippi River, Louisiana wetlands and some of the best thinking on what needs to be done…
The First Hint of Autumn in the Air and the Trees
Glynn Wilson The first hint of autumn always seems to show up first on the dogwood tree in our front yard. Meanwhile, the weather forecast for Labor Day weekend reveals the first real break from the scorching summer heat in Middle Alabamaland, according to the National Weather Service forecast. Saturday’s college football forecast looks like…
Are You Ready for Some Football?
Editor’s Note: While the people of the Gulf Coast are still hurting from the BP oil and chemical disaster, it is a fact that humans need a break from serious news and tragedy. With that said, it is that time of year again, time to kick off our weekly college football column we run every…
Senate Republicans Block Investigation of BP Oil Disaster
The U.S. House voted 420 to 1 to give the presidential commission investigating the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico full subpoena power. Conservative Republicans in the Senate blocked it. If the commission does not have subpoena power, many activists are not asking the question: Can there be a real investigation?
‘Inside Job’ Film Exposes Shocking Facts About Economic Crisis
From Academy Award nominated filmmaker, Charles Ferguson (“No End In Sight”), comes INSIDE JOB, the first film to expose the shocking truth behind the economic crisis of 2008. The global financial meltdown, at a cost of over $20 trillion, resulted in millions of people losing their homes and jobs. Through extensive research and interviews with…
VIDEO: Hurricane Katrina Fifth Anniversary
The city of New Orleans suffered one of the worst disasters in U.S. history when Hurricane Katrina flooded the city in 2005. Then when the Saints won the Super Bowl in 2010, the people felt like the city was back. But seven weeks later, BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig blew up in the Gulf of…
Project Gulf Impact Finds Oil, Corexit in Florida and Alabama Waters
This is some raw video footage taken from a Project Gulf Impact boat trip August 24th. “Within minutes of departing in Perdido Bay, Florida, we came across massive amounts of oil that had been obviously freshly sprayed with Corexit,” the group says. “The problem was, the dispersed oil wasn’t just in one place, but it…
