After Narrowly Surviving Sandy, Conservatives Turn To Government For Help

Thursday, December 6, 2012 After Narrowly Surviving Sandy, Conservatives Turn To Government For Help On the southern shore of Staten Island, the remains of a street called Kissam Avenue stretch across the marshland, a trail of ruins leading to the sea. When Pedro Correa first drove down the street six years ago with his wife, their young son and a real estate agent, he was amazed that a street so secluded and serene still existed in a city of eight million people. It was early spring, and a cool, salty breeze was blowing in from the ocean, rustling the 6-foot-tall curtains of grass that lined both sides of the road. The house the Correas had come to see was about 50 feet from the beach, and it was a wreck -- it had been ordered in parts from a Sears catalog in the 1950s -- but Correa was a practiced carpenter and he allowed himself to fantasize about "the possibilities." He'd never imagined that his corrections officer salary could afford him a third of an acre, a deck with ocean views and an in-ground pool. Climate Talks An Endless Treadmill, Without The Health Benefits Arctic Spiraling Into Volatile State Due To Accelerated Warming Doha 'At A Make-Or-Break Point' Bloomberg's Plans For The Next Natural Disaster New Judge Assigned To Case Against BP Supervisors BLOG POSTS Russ Belville: Seattle Smokes-in Marijuana Legalization at the Space Needle We counted down from five minutes, from one minute, 10, 9, 8... and suddenly marijuana possession was legal. A cheer arose from the crowd, followed by a hush, followed by a very large cloud of marijuana smoke and cold breath. Bill McKibben: Think About the Transportation Sector Superstorm Sandy has made it clear that no matter how hard some politicians try to ignore climate change, climate change will not ignore them -- or any of us. Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins: Weathering the Storm, Together When neighbors plant food together, or find jobs improving buildings on their own block -- when they create reliable, safe infrastructure and common green space -- they increase their odds of surviving all kinds of hardships, from storms, to divisive politics, to economic recession. Bruce Friedrich: Steve-O Gets Serious: Slams the Meat Industry, Promotes Compassion In what has to be his most unlikely movie role yet, Steve-O has narrated What Came Before a 10-minute film short about three escapees from the American meat industry. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: You Need to See This Movie Matt Damon and John Krasinski's new film Promised Land answers the question of why even the poorest rural communities are standing up against fracking. Any community that is seriously debating fracking ought to screen this film publicly.

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