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“Cruel and absurd”
Back in early April, Charles Pierce wrote about the sentencing phase of the Boston Marathon bomber trial. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had been found guilty and the jury would now decide his fate: life in prison or […]
Articles by JanF
From the White House
Weekly Address: President Obama – Creating Opportunity for All
The President’s Weekly Address post is also an Open News Thread. Feel free to share other news stories in the comments. From the White House – Weekly Address In this week’s address, the President highlighted […]
News and Opinion
Russ is in!!!!
Great news for Wisconsin: Russ Feingold has announced that he will run against teaparty Sen. Ron Johnson in November 2016 Feingold was defeated in 2010 in the low-turnout mid-term election and starts out the 2016 […]
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Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: May 14th thru May 16th (continued)
Welcome to The Moose Pond! The Welcomings posts give the Moose, old and new, a place to visit and share words about the weather, life, the world at large and the small parts of Moosylvania […]
News and Opinion
Found on the Internets: Infrastructure – derailed
From ThinkProgress: Why You Can’t Talk About The Amtrak Derailment Without Talking About Our Infrastructure Crisis At least six people have died and more than 140 people are injured in the wake of the deadliest […]
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The Moose are on the Moooove …
The moose migration is in full swing. Watch this space for news about site changes. Fierce
From the White House
First Lady Michelle Obama at Tuskegee University
From the White House: First Lady Michelle Obama greets Tuskegee alum and Selma civil rights leader, Dr. Amelia Boynton Robinson, age 103 and Latifya Mohammed This past Saturday, First Lady Michelle Obama delivered the commencement […]
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Found on the Internets: Work Force Transition
Found on the Internets: Becky Bowers @beckybowers It happened: Millennials are now the biggest generation in the U.S. workforce http://on.wsj.com/1IugHMe Interesting that the new generation, just starting to enter the workforce, is called Generation Z. […]
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Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: May 10th thru May 13th
Welcome to The Moose Pond! The Welcomings posts give the Moose, old and new, a place to visit and share words about the weather, life, the world at large and the small parts of Moosylvania […]
From the White House
Weekly Address: President Obama – Honoring the 70th Anniversary of V-E Day
The President’s Weekly Address post is also an Open News Thread. Feel free to share other news stories in the comments. From the White House – Weekly Address In this week’s address, the President honored […]