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  If You Support Kucinich

  In many ways, Dennis Kucinich is a great candidate. But in the current system, I don't think he is a viable Presidential candidate. Kucinich supporters and others who support candidates who aren't "front runners" should actively support instant runoff voting.

  Without a system like instant runoff voting, voting for a great candidate who can't win can be a dangerous thing to do. The 2000 election certainly showed us that.

  Instant runoff voting is used in many places worldwide and could make a huge difference in American politics. If you want to learn more, please go to the Fair Vote website at http://www.fairvote.org/.

  FrancesOn The environmental endorsements start rolling in posted 2 years, 1 month ago 10 Responses

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  Thanks

  Thanks, Bill, for pointing out that national coal policy needs to insure that coal miners and coal communities are not harmed. I think it's easy to forget miners and mining communities or to dismiss them as backward and unimportant. There are a lot of difficult economic and cultural issues in transforming coal mining communities but those difficulties can and must be overcome.

  FrancesOn 'Clean coal' is an oxymoron posted 2 years, 2 months ago 12 Responses

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  Climate Change Worries Harming Patients?

  My patients worry about all sorts of things but I can't recall any of them reporting worries about climate change. Worrying about that would be an improvement over many of their worries. It's a problem they can do something constructive about.

  FrancesOn Flawed new analysis purports to show that there's no scientific consensus on climate change posted 2 years, 2 months ago 34 Responses

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  Ads promoting coal aren't new

  A few years ago I used the Metro almost every day to commute to work (I changed jobs four years ago and now walk to work). There were large ads promoting coal-fired electricity by pointing out that it fueled the subway we were using.

  I think public transportation is generally a very good thing but that did give me pause.

  FrancesOn Because voluntary offsets are never, ever like indulgences posted 2 years, 2 months ago 19 Responses

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  Instead of insults

  Not all of us West Virginians are in love with coal. It might be more useful to learn about and support the efforts of many West Virginians and others in the Appalachians to stop mountaintop removal and other environmental damage from coal mining. A good place to start is this page from iLoveMountains.org, http://www.ilovemountains.org/about.

  FrancesOn W. Va. editorial says mining coal should be easier posted 2 years, 2 months ago 7 Responses