http://irregularnews.com/statesprogress Local progressive political activism across the USA Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:49:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The results of the American Religious Identification Survey of 2008 are in, and it seems that Vermont is the most godless state in the union. 34 percent of Vermont residents answering the survey reported having no religion. Some people will assume that's a bad thing, but if you look at ... http://irregularnews.com/statesprogress/2009/03/vermont-most-godless-state-in-the-union/ Barack Obama shocked his supporters last summer by voting for the FISA Amendments Act, which provided retroactive legal immunity to corporations who helped George W. Bush spy on the private lives of millions of Americans. The law also legalized such spy operations against Americans going into the future. Now, as ... http://irregularnews.com/statesprogress/2009/03/obama-constitutionally-confronted-in-columbus/ The people at the Green Party of Delaware have gone to the trouble of setting up an online soapbox. Why aren't they bothering to use it? The latest news item from the Delaware Greens appears to be from March, 2006 - back when the Republicans still controlled Congress, and people ... http://irregularnews.com/statesprogress/2009/03/delaware-green-party-is-old-news/ Continuing torture, government spying against us, huge bailouts for corrupt Wall Street firms and to inept Detroit, inaction on climate change, the ocean ecological crisis, the fraud of "clean coal"... there are plenty of serious issues that people might take action to protest about (see yesterday's Capitol Climate Action protest ... http://irregularnews.com/statesprogress/2009/03/superficial-music-protest-in-connecticut/ Cincinnati eaters, pay attention... and that would include, um... everyone in Cincinnati. Your city, on the border of Ohio and Kentucky, has access to a great diversity of local food, what with the southern hilly fields to the south, and the northern flat fields to the north. There's a great ... http://irregularnews.com/statesprogress/2009/02/food-on-the-border-of-ohio-and-kentucky/ In Utah, there's a State Senator who thinks that he's being brave by daring to insult people. Senator Chris Buttars made public statements calling homosexual people, "They're probably the greatest threat to America going down I know of." Homosexuality is a greater threat to America than the economic crisis? ... http://irregularnews.com/statesprogress/2009/02/chris-buttars-and-the-real-threat-to-america/ Thumbs down to Chino Latino, a trendy fusion restaurant in Minneapolis, Minnesota for serving an endangered species as food. Marlin was once king of the oceans, as big as many sharks, the fish was the nemesis, as powerful as Moby Dick, in Earnest Hemmingway's The Old Man and the Sea. ... http://irregularnews.com/statesprogress/2009/02/chino-latino-serves-endangered-fish-in-minneapolis/ No, it's not what you typically might think of when it comes to the phrase anti-family, but it's the best description I can think of to describe the bill that Tennessee's US Representative Marsha Blackburn has proposed. H.R. 381 would force substantial cuts in funding to hospitals, early childhood education, and ... http://irregularnews.com/statesprogress/2009/02/marsha-blackburn-sponsors-anti-family-legislation/ The economy's down, so drink up - but drink up in a way that makes a difference. Bonterra, out in California makes wine organically. That means that they use natural fertilizer, and they don't spray synthetic pesticides and herbicides. Most vineyards do. Now, think about it. Do you want ... http://irregularnews.com/statesprogress/2009/01/drink-up-organically/ News of a couple changes to the Wyoming Progressive Directory. A Wyoming environmental news service was removed after it began charging for access to its articles, and a Wyoming Arts blog was added. Arts blog? Yes, we'll count that as a progressive source of information. One of the ... http://irregularnews.com/statesprogress/2008/12/wyoming-arts-added-to-progressive-perspective/