Daily Archives: May 22, 2011
Cartoon(s) of the Week – You know how, on a slow news week, small things get out of proportion?
Joel Pett in the Lexington Herald leader:
Working backwards, the end of the week was a letdown…
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Jim Morin in the Miami Herald:
… and Newt made a move outside the Party hysteria…
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Kevin Siers in the Charlotte Observer:
… and International Economic Types had trouble keeping their pants up around chambermaids…
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Mike Luckovich in the Atlanta Journal Constitution:
… and Congress made sure the companies that made the most money got the encouragement of huge tax breaks…
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Drew Sheneman in the Newark Star Ledger:
… and our heroes became somewhat less heroic (another one with a problem keeping his pants up)…
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John Darkow in the Columbia Daily Tribune:
…and, all in all, I’ll bet they all wished they had stayed out of the news.
Related articles
- Denver Post cartoonist Mike Keefe wins Pulitzer Prize – Denver Post (news.google.com)
- Cartoon: Workaround (readwriteweb.com)
- Big Blue Linkapalooza: End Of The World Edition (aseaofblue.com)
- Caricature of Matt Mullenweg – The Founding Developer of WordPress – The Caricaturist Strikes Again! (via Shafali’s Caricatures & Cartoons) (rashmikamath.wordpress.com)
Who would have thought that Hagerstown would jump into the 21st Century?
From yesterday’s Herald-Mail:
Solar-generating facility to be built near prisons
HAGERSTOWN — The largest solar-generating facility in Maryland, capable of powering more than 2,000 homes at peak output, is scheduled to open next year on 250 acres of state-owned land near the Maryland Correctional Institution-Hagerstown and the Maryland Correctional Training Center. Maryland Solar LLC of Annapolis announced plans Friday to build the $70 million, 20-megawatt solar facility — a plant that company officials said will be one of the largest on the East Coast and will double the state’s current solar-generation capacity.
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Maryland Solar is in discussions with the state Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services about the possibility using prerelease inmates to perform routine maintenance such as landscaping and panel cleaning, a company news release said.
This is sure something exciting on a near-local level. Now if just-over-the-border West Virginia could look at this solution instead of coal or natural gas hydrofracking, I’d be even more excited.
Related articles
- Maryland is “Southron”, ya’ll… and therefore, Confederate!(???) (cenantua.wordpress.com)
- More Data Centers Using On-Site Solar Power (hardware.slashdot.org)
- Italian ministers reach deal on solar incentives (ecomagnificent.com)
- U.S. solar grew sharply in 2010, still lags Europe (reuters.com)
- Boeing’s South Carolina plant: Solar powered (bizjournals.com)