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Welcome to In Brief, the Northwest Progressive Institute's microblog. In Brief provides a continuously curated collection of asides, recommended links, quotations, audio and video clips, still images, and transcribed dialogue. Click on a thumbnail to open an item.

Many students choosing to intern at organic family farms over the summer

May 24th, 2009 Andrew Villeneuve Unscheduled Programming

Many students choosing to intern at organic family farms over the summer More and more students are growing interested (pun intended) in working on the

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May 22nd, 2009 Andrew Villeneuve Unscheduled Programming

Now I have a decision to make, and it’s a decision I take very seriously. Do I file for reelection and keep pushing for accountability

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Don’t hold second Amtrak Cascades train hostage, Vancouver Sun says

May 22nd, 2009 Andrew Villeneuve Unscheduled Programming

Don’t hold second Amtrak Cascades train hostage, Vancouver Sun says In an editorial published yesterday morning, the Vancouver Sun urged the Canadian government not to

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Obama scraps plans for hasty unfair trade agreement with Panama

May 22nd, 2009 Andrew Villeneuve Unscheduled Programming

Obama scraps plans for hasty unfair trade agreement with Panama Via the Campaign for America’s Future, Bloomberg is reporting that President Barack Obama has decided

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May 21st, 2009 Andrew Villeneuve Unscheduled Programming

And yet here in America, I’ve had some people come to my aid. They see the bigger picture. They’re not like O’Reilly; they’re not like

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Obama ends Bush’s assault on federalism

May 21st, 2009 Andrew Villeneuve Unscheduled Programming

Obama ends Bush’s assault on federalism In a two page memorandum released today, President Barack Obama told executive departments and agencies not to claim that

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Schumer, Gillibrand urge NY Senate to pass marriage equality bill

May 20th, 2009 Andrew Villeneuve Unscheduled Programming

New York’s two United States Senators (Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand) today released an open letter they sent to the New York State Senate urging

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May 18th, 2009 Andrew Villeneuve Unscheduled Programming

I’m a guy who doesn’t see anything good having come from the Internet… [The Internet] created this notion that anyone can have whatever they want

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Internet Explorer continues to lose market share

May 18th, 2009 Andrew Villeneuve Unscheduled Programming

Internet Explorer continues to lose market share Although Windows remains as ubitiquious as ever, fewer people are using Microsoft’s Internet Explorer to browse the Web,

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May 17th, 2009 Andrew Villeneuve Unscheduled Programming

We must decide how to save God’s creation from a changing climate that threatens to destroy it. We must seek peace at a time when

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May 17th, 2009 Andrew Villeneuve Unscheduled Programming

It says in spades what is the problem with our party – we’re driving out the heretics, and they’re looking for converts. — Former Congressman

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May 16th, 2009 Andrew Villeneuve Unscheduled Programming

A humorous simplification of what is undoubtedly a typical department decision making process in Departments of Transportation across the country. (Graphic Credit: David Alpert, Greater

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May 16th, 2009 Andrew Villeneuve Unscheduled Programming

Obama once said, ‘It’s not enough to get out of Iraq; we have to get out of the mindset that led us into Iraq.’ What

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May 15th, 2009 Andrew Villeneuve Unscheduled Programming

It is an incredible honor to be nominated for this office and the opportunity to serve our state and country. It is also a privilege

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May 15th, 2009 Andrew Villeneuve Unscheduled Programming

That’s all very well in Argentina, but could that ever happen here? — Klein and Lewis discuss the wave of workplace occupations in the wake

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More workers vote to stage sit-in if bailed-out bank attempts to close company

May 14th, 2009 Andrew Villeneuve Unscheduled Programming

More workers vote to stage sit-in if bailed-out bank attempts to close company Following a recent vote by employees of Hartmarx in Chicago, over four

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Norway bucks economic recession

May 14th, 2009 Andrew Villeneuve Unscheduled Programming

Norway bucks economic recession Thanks to its sovereign wealth fund and strong regulations, Norway – which has a socialist economy – is doing well even

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May 14th, 2009 Andrew Villeneuve Unscheduled Programming

Regardless of how you try to explain to people it’s a ‘war on drugs’ or a ‘war on a product,’ people see a war as

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Death of Afghan civilians ‘bad PR’

May 13th, 2009 Andrew Villeneuve Unscheduled Programming

Death of Afghan civilians ‘bad PR’ FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting) points out that much of the reporting by major media outlets about recent

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May 12th, 2009 Andrew Villeneuve Unscheduled Programming

We have discovered that there are many false denunciations, many people that want to present legitimate killings in combat, terrorists, guerrillas, as extrajudicial executions, in

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Hartmarx workers vote to “sit in” to save their jobs

May 12th, 2009 Andrew Villeneuve Unscheduled Programming

Hartmarx workers vote to “sit in” to save their jobs First it was Republic Windows and Doors. Now another group of employees in Chicago is preparing

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