By Vihar Sheth on April 22, 2010
One of the biggest fights in making the St. Louis region smoke-free is concensus from the three most populous counties on the Missouri side of the Mississippi River. Anyone who’s following the movement to make our communities healthier knows that the state of Illinois has already made its communities smoke-free, and done so in commendable [...]
Posted in Food & Health, Government & Society | Tagged Activism, Smoke-Free, St. Charles County |
By Vihar Sheth on February 9, 2010
I love reading about ideas. I come across new ones every almost day, but every now and then one sticks out as either quite remarkable or quite original. Such is this idea from Michael Mautner, Research Professor of Chemistry at Virginia Commonwealth University, who claims seeding the universe with life is not just an option [...]
Posted in Government & Society | Tagged Evolution, Life, Self-Perpetuation, Universe |
By Vihar Sheth on January 19, 2010
With a little motivation from my brother, he and his wife and my wife and I decided to do a little community service on an oddly foggy Monday morning in St. Louis. We headed north from our respective homes to the College Hill neighborhood on the north side of St. Louis City to clean up some [...]
Posted in Government & Society | Tagged Apathy, Neighborhood, Volunteerism |
By Vihar Sheth on January 14, 2010
In response to the earthquake and 40+ aftershocks in Haiti, CNN.com has put up a page up called “What we’re hearing via social media“. The page is streaming updates from Haiti as they’re coming in, and while the page claims to have updates from various social media everything I’ve read so far is from Twitter. [...]
Posted in Development & Transportation, Government & Society | Tagged Aftershock, Earthquare, Haiti |
By Vihar Sheth on January 13, 2010
I just got this from Citizens for Modern Transit this morning: The St. Louis County Council voted in December to place a ½ cent general sales tax on the ballot on April 6 for transit operations and expansion including MetroLink. Without the passage of this measure, Metro will be cutting more than 30 percent of [...]
Posted in Development & Transportation, Government & Society | Tagged Metro, Tax, Transit |
By Vihar Sheth on January 11, 2010
There’s nothing like reading about hate crimes during your Monday morning work out. Seriously, there’s nothing like it. While “ellipticizing” to nowhere for 28 minutes I read, among other articles, two recent pieces on hate crimes in the most recent issue of Utne Reader. The first, “A Conspiracy of Hate,” is by Larry Keller and [...]
Posted in Government & Society | Tagged Conspiracy, Hate, Media, Militia, Terrorism |
By Vihar Sheth on December 7, 2009
I’m approaching 30,000 words. While I’ve been moving at a much slower pace than I’d like, I’m coming up with a few subplots that will hopefully help my story. Tortoise and the hare, tortoise and the hare. What some people are calling the last best chance for humanity to save itself from climate change starts [...]
Posted in Climate & Energy, Government & Society, Miscellaneous | Tagged Climate Change, NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month, United Nations |
By Vihar Sheth on November 25, 2009
Naming these posts is difficult. I’ve just been combining words and phrases for the topics being discussed into something that doesn’t really make sense by itself. This could be “my thing”. 25,000 words down and 25,000 left to go. Hitting the halfway mark felt good, though I wish I did it about ten days ago. [...]
Posted in Government & Society, Miscellaneous | Tagged Housing, NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month |
By Vihar Sheth on September 1, 2009
Posted in Government & Society | Tagged Health Care |
By Vihar Sheth on September 1, 2009
I’ve posted below snippets from an editorial which appeared in today’s St. Louis Post-Dispatch. A St. Louisan’s view of the British National Health Service BY Reva Klein Tuesday, Sep. 01 2009 LONDON “I’ve lived here since 1973, and whenever I visit my hometown of St. Louis, or anywhere else in the United States for that matter, [...]
Posted in Government & Society | Tagged British, Health Care |
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