Online Again and Ready to Roll

Our apologies for the extended intermission the last week. A combination of travel and technical problems conspired to thwart postings. But summertime is supposed to be about a more relaxed schedule, right?

It used to be that way, but increasingly summer is seen by both industry and government as a time to accelerate their agendas while we're all out enjoying what little free time we have available. Kind of an extension of their  "night, weekends and holiday" approach to polluting.

Even Christmas has become fodder for this kind of maneuver. Remember when Dallas Mayor Rawlings and former (but still haunting) City Manager Mary Suhm thought they'd sneak the Trinity East gas permits through last December 23rd?

Combine these tactics with our culture's 24/7 news cycle and ability/addiction to being wired-in at all times, and it's hard to get a moment out in the wilderness or countryside to remember why you wanted to throw yourself into the gears of the machine to try and stop the wrongs you see in the first place.

But for whatever reason, you did make that decision to sacrifice your time and energy for something bigger than yourself. And that decision has changed you. Like our friend, former DISH Mayor Calvin Tillman says, "Once you know, you can not know." We keep at it because we need to, because it's self defense, and/or because we can not keep at it.

And so, we're back off the road now, and just in the nick of time. Lots of things coming up in the next month that you you need to know about and contribute to if you can – protecting the progress we're making in the Dallas gas drilling fight, pursuing a real clean-up of lead in Frisco, and even a state meeting on smog to look forward to! We'll be putting up news about all of these things shortly.

Finish loading the vacation pics online, get the kids in school, and tune back into the fights for health justice going on in your own backyard. We need you.