West Nile Virus is a potentially dangerous illness that is primarily spread by bites from infected mosquitoes. So far this year, there have been 1,993 cases of West Nile Virus reported in the United States, including 87 deaths. 70 percent of those cases occurred in six states: Texas, South Dakota, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Michigan.

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FYI … American Progress

08/30/2012 Nativegrl77

Ohio coal miners lost a day’s pay after they were forced to attend a Romney rally on a “mandatory and unpaid” basis. The mine is owned by a major Romney donor.

Mitt Romney wants consumers to waste an extra $1.7 TRILLION on gas.

The Romney campaign laughs off a reporter’s question about their false and discredited welfare attacks.

As Hurricane Isaac bears down on New Orleans, a Romney campaign co-chair complains that the media is “obsessed with mother nature.”

The fact-free Romney campaign.

The mayor of Los Angeles had some sharp words for the GOP on immigration.

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) is crying wolf on the Obama administration’s response to Hurricane Isaac.

Florida’s GOP voter suppression law brought voter registration to a standstill.

Wisconsin’s lieutenant governor backtracked on her criticism of Todd Akin after being told that Paul Ryan also tried to redefine rape: “I think there is a way to have a more forcible rape.”

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Rebuilding New Orleans Green

11/15/2011 Nativegrl77

Future360 travels to New Orleans, Louisiana to meet actor and star of Treme, Wendell Pierce. Pierce is on a mission to rebuild Pontchartrain Park using renewable energy and clean technology.

by Future360TVon Jul 19, 2011

Future360 travels to New Orleans, Louisiana to meet actor and star of Treme, Wendell Pierce. Pierce is on a mission to rebuild Pontchartrain Park using renewable energy and clean technology.

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Change.org

05/09/2011 Nativegrl77

There’s no such thing as evolution. There’s no such thing as climate change. And that’s the law.

Outrageous as it sounds, this is the situation that thousands of science teachers find themselves in as more and more states pass radical laws promoting the teaching of creationism and climate-change denial in public classrooms.

But in Louisiana, one high school senior is fighting back. http://www.change.org/petitions/tell-louisiana-to-teach-real-science-in-public-schools-not-creationism-and-climate-change-denial?utm_source=action_alert&utm_medium=email&alert_id=djCVYCAEKj_IPCTrqXDJp

Zack Kopplin is just 17 years old, but he knows what’s right: He wants his science teachers to teach him science, not religion. Zack is spearheading a campaign to repeal the Louisiana law that pushes science teachers to deny evolution and climate change.

Zack wrote a letter to the Louisiana state legislature, and 42 Nobel Prize winners have signed it, too. Now, he’s asking you to join his fight on www.Change.org. http://www.change.org/petitions/tell-louisiana-to-teach-real-science-in-public-schools-not-creationism-and-climate-change-denial?utm_source=action_alert&utm_medium=email&alert_id=djCVYCAEKj_IPCTrqXDJp

Zack’s campaign is working: On April 15th, Louisiana State Senator Karen Carter Peterson introduced a bill to repeal the repeal the recent legislation, but Zack still needs help to keep the pressure up.

Please sign the petition today to tell the Louisiana legislature to let science teachers teach science:

http://www.change.org/petitions/tell-louisiana-to-teach-real-science-in-public-schools-not-creationism-and-climate-change-denial

Thanks for taking action,

– Patrick and the Change.org team