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To: SiouxPal who wrote (77972)	9/2/2006 9:21:26 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 362296

Don't rush. You told me not to call for another 50 minutes.

To: SiouxPal who wrote (77972)	9/2/2006 10:06:10 PM
From: T L Comiskey	Respond to of 362296

Mammoth $200M wind farm proposed in Iowa Fri Sep 1, HAMPTON, Iowa - Northern Iowa could have one of the nation's largest wind farms by 2008. Iowa Winds LLC wants to build a 200- to 300-megawatt farm covering about 40,000 acres in Franklin County. A county zoning board will consider approving permits for the $200 million project next month. "It's something new and renewable," said Amber Schwarck, a spokeswoman for the Iowa Falls-based company. "It's great for national security, so we can start depending on ourselves and the wind." Iowa ranks third in the nation in wind energy behind Texas and California, according to the American Wind Energy Association. The Franklin County Wind Farm would help Iowa keep pace with those states and create 30 to 40 technical jobs maintaining turbines, said Schwarck. A pay scale was unavailable. Company officials said the farm could be the nation's largest — depending on the permits and the county's power grid infrastructure. The project would be built near Bradford and involve 193 landowners in the townships of Grant, Hamilton, Ingham, Lee, Morgan, Oakland and Reeves. If the county approves the project, construction would start next spring and take about a year, said Franklin County Supervisor Michael Nolte. "It's not very often you have someone who wants to make a $200 million investment in the county," he said. "That's a huge investment. It's just a win-win for the county." Schwarck said Iowa Winds has conducted meteorological studies in southern Franklin County since the company was formed in 2002. The project would be its first wind farm. Iowa has nearly 900 wind turbines capable of producing 836 megawatts of electricity, enough to power about 226,000 average homes, according to the American Wind Energy Association. Planned projects — besides the Franklin County farm — would add 120 turbines capable of generating an additional 249 megawatts of electricity, the group said. Texas leads the nation with 2,400 megawatts of wind energy installed and California has 2,323 megawatts. ___ Information from: Globe Gazette, globegazette.com

To: SiouxPal who wrote (77972)	9/3/2006 1:09:44 AM
From: CalculatedRisk	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 362296

More GOP Districts Counted as Vulnerable Number Doubled Over the Summer washingtonpost.com Facing the most difficult political environment since they took control of Congress in 1994, Republicans begin the final two months of the midterm campaign in growing danger of losing the House while fighting to preserve at best a slim majority in the Senate, according to strategists and officials in both parties. Over the summer, the political battlefield has expanded well beyond the roughly 20 GOP House seats originally thought to be vulnerable. Now some Republicans concede there may be almost twice as many districts from which Democrats could wrest the 15 additional seats they need to take control. <MORE>

To: SiouxPal who wrote (77972)	9/5/2006 10:29:33 AM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 362296

All eyes on Couric ___________________________________________________________ TV superstar makes network history tonight when she debuts as the anchor of 'CBS Evening News' freep.com

To: SiouxPal who wrote (77972)	9/6/2006 2:59:59 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 362296

Kinky's winning another poll A new poll in the Midland Reporter Telegram has Kinky winning by 10 points! The paper also did a profile on Kinky's campaign assessing his chances. "I think Kinky is a force of nature and he's not going to be ignored," said UTPB Assistant History Professor Derek Catsam. "He's an ordinary guy and yet larger than life. If it's a joke, he's not in on it and that's when they become dangerous." The message going into the end of the summer is that this is a wide-open race--the only thing we know for sure is that the people want change. That makes us happy, because we know that an outsider, a non-politician, is the only one who can bring change to Texas. And though there are many candidates in this race, Kinky is still the only one who fits that description. And check out this article in the Kerrville Daily Times: Medina resident Friedman is the Hill Country’s local candidate, but in staunchly Republican Kerr County, does he even have a chance of winning on his own home turf? “This has got to be Perry country,” Friedman said Friday. “If he can’t win the Republican Hill Country, he can’t win.” The financial war chests amassed by Perry and Strayhorn are huge compared to Kinky’s, But “I think money doesn’t vote, people do,” he said. “Everybody is saying the same things. The voters really want fundamental change, not cosmetic change.” The winds of change could blow through Texas politics this fall, like they did in Connecticut this past week. Friedman referred to voter turnout that led to incumbent Democratic Sen. Joseph Lieberman, the former vice presidential nominee, being defeated by party challenger Ned Lamont in the state primary. “If we translate those numbers to Texas, the incumbent here is going to fall, too, like Lieberman did,” Friedman said. Polls conducted by the Austin and San Antonio business journals in March and April give the Governor’s mansion to Friedman, a self-proclaimed “compassionate redneck.” The emphasis is ours, but the growing Kinky buzz belongs to the Lone Star State. kinkyfriedman.com