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Save the Internet from Corporate Control

What is this about?
Bloggers Unite! This is about Internet freedom. "Network Neutrality" -- the First Amendment of the Internet -- ensures that the public can view the smallest blog just as easily as the largest corporate Web site by preventing Internet companies like AT&T from rigging the playing field for only the highest-paying sites.
But Internet providers like AT&T, Verizon and Comcast are spending millions of dollars lobbying Congress to gut Net Neutrality. If Congress doesn't take action now to implement meaningful network neutrality provisions, the future of the Internet is at risk. More info at http://www.savetheinternet.com/

Responsible Land Use: Bush's Budget Cuts Acquisition

As I prepare to go to Colorado this summer to explore the great outdoors on Sam Correro's Trans America Trail, I continue to hope that we will have the wisdom to keep some of that great outdoors for generations to come to enjoy. Today the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) sent out a press release that disturbed me, part of which I've pasted in here:

While the Department of the Interior's budget is slated for a record $11 billion increase for FY05, the highly successful Land and Water Conservation Fund, which pays for land acquisition for parks and wildlife refuges and provides grants for land restoration and conservation, would be funded at a level $100 million below what Congress approved last year. The Interior budget request also contains deep cuts in endangered species programs. While the president requested increased funds for listing species as endangered, funding for recovery programs would be slashed by more than $9 million. The budget seeks to increase National Park Service funding by over $100 million, with about half of that total targeted at reducing the backlog of maintenance projects at national parks.

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