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Legislative trading and sausage making

Posted by D.G. Martin | Apr 26, 2011 | D.G. Martin

“If someone ties a love note to a nuclear bomb, do you take ‘em both?” That was State Senate Minority Leader Martin Nesbitt, a Democrat, complaining about the legislature’s Republican majority tying a controversial budget cut...

Photosynthesis Part I: Oxygen Gets All the Press

Posted by Jeff Danner | Apr 25, 2011 | Common Science

Any discussion of petroleum starts with photosynthesis. Actually, pretty much any discussion of anything should start with photosynthesis. No photosynthesis, no us, no Chapelboro. Somewhere in your high school chemistry class...

An Introduction to Your Host

Posted by Jeff Danner | Apr 25, 2011 | Common Science

Welcome to “Common Science” your Chapelboro home for discussions of science and how it impacts our lives here in our community. My name is Jeff Danner, I am a Ph.D. Chemical Engineer (sorry no pocket protector) and have been a...

“They are trying to eat Big Bird”

Posted by D.G. Martin | Apr 18, 2011 | D.G. Martin

The hundreds of William Friday’s friends and fans who gathered to hear him speak last week might not have guessed that the institutions he worked so hard to build were threatened by the just-released legislative budget...

What kind of paper money and why?

Posted by D.G. Martin | Apr 11, 2011 | D.G. Martin

What is money? I asked that question again recently when I heard that State Representative Glen Bradley had introduced House Bill 301 to “study whether this State should adopt a currency to serve as an alternative to the...

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Legislative trading and sausage making

Photosynthesis Part I: Oxygen Gets All the Press

An Introduction to Your Host

“They are trying to eat Big Bird”

What kind of paper money and why?

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