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Wind Power News: November 2003
These news and opinion items are gathered by National Wind Watch in its noncommercial educational effort to help keep readers informed about developments related to industrial wind energy. They do not necessarily reflect the opinions of National Wind Watch. They are the products of and owned by the organizations or individuals noted and are shared here according to “fair use” and “fair dealing” provisions of copyright law.
What’s the Matter with Kansas?
What's the matter with Kansas? For one thing, The Wichita Eagle. Complete story »
What’s the Matter with Kansas?
Thomas Frank’s book “What’s the Matter With Kansas?” describes the neocolonial-style situation in Garden City, where huge, out-of-state agribusinesses have exploited the land and cheap labor to create meatpacking and food-processing combines that have simultaneously despoiled the natural environment and created a mess of poverty and ruined infrastructure. That part of Kansas becomes a warren of trailer parks and tacky apartment buildings, while the profits drain to capitalist enterprises far away. Now The Eagle editorial board thinks Kansas is “losing . . . Complete story »
