A couple of things in the news that seemed noteworthy...

Delaware Energy Debate Could Turn on the Wind
Offshore Turbines Among 3 Proposals

REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. -- Two hundred towering windmills, each so tall that its blades would loom over the U.S. Capitol Dome, could be built in the Atlantic Ocean near one of Washingtonians' favorite beach retreats, under a plan being considered in Delaware.

The plan, which could create the first wind "farm" in waters along the East Coast, envisions a thicket of turbines offshore of either Rehoboth Beach or Bethany Beach, Del. As the blades are spun by ocean winds, designers say, the wind farm could provide enough power every year for 130,000 homes.

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Mandelstam also stressed that the wind farm would not contribute to climate change, which is blamed for rising sea levels in Delaware and elsewhere. At times, the appeal was less than subtle.

"A third of Delaware will be underwater by 2100," Mandelstam said, citing University of Delaware research. "And we take that very seriously."

Hampton Roads-to-Richmond barge service floated

NORFOLK, Va. (Map, News) - A maritime company is seeking federal seed money to see if a barge service between Hampton Roads and Richmond will float.

The proposed James River Barge Line has the potential to take some of the growing volume of cargo containers off Interstate 64 and U.S. 460 between Hampton Roads and Richmond. Only 2 percent of the nation's freight now moves on waterways.

Artist/Band: Old Crow Medicine Show
Lyrics for Song: James River Blues
Lyrics for Album: Big Iron World

I just heard the awful news
I could steer around the rocks
But theyre bustin down the docks

James river blues
That train came on through
And the worlds gotten slow
So wheres a boat man to go

I think Ill float on down
To Richmond town
They dont need us anymore
hauling freight from shore to shore
That big iron hauls much more
than we ever could before

Ive see good men going wrong
Ive seen bad ones get it right
As that river rolls along
Ill be steppin out tonight

On the cool flow
floatin down down below
the bridge till the waters edge
From the ridge to the ledge
From the hills to the sea
Ill become a memory
James River blues
James River blues
James River blues

Another Old Crow fan! Great! :-)
Here's one of their songs that just rings of the old leftie social justice union days, you gotta' love it, I don't care who ya' are.....

Old Crow Medicine
Show I Hear Them All

I hear the crying of the hungry in the deserts where they're wandering.
Hear them crying out for heaven's own benevolence upon them.
Hear destructive power prevailing, I hear fools falsely hailing.
To the crooked wits of tyrants when they call.

I hear them all
I hear them all
I hear them all

I hear the sounds of tearing pages and the roar of burning paper.
All the crimes in acquisitions turn to air and ash and vapor.
And the rattle of the shackle far beyond emancipators.
And the loneliest who gather in their stalls.

I hear them all
I hear them all
I hear them all

So while you sit and whistle Dixie with your money and your power.
I can hear the flowers a-growin in the rubble of the towers.
I hear leaders quit their lying
I hear babies quit their crying.

I hear soldiers quit their dying, one and all.

I hear them all
I hear them all
I hear them all

I hear the tender words from Zion, I hear Noah's waterfall.
Hear the gentle lamb of Judah sleeping at the feet of Buddha.
And the prophets from Elija to the old Paiute Wovoka.
Take their places at the table when they're called.

I hear them all
I hear them all
I hear them all

RC
Remember, we are only one cubic mile from freedom

I like their take on Dylan's rock me

Yes, the gentlemen played the Victoria theatre in Dayton, Ohio and encored with Dylan. I would love for Dylan to take this group on as his backup band, for a tour. I will see them again at Bonnaroo in June.

I saw them in Acton, Maine several years ago.

what can I say? Cutest boys that play banjos and fiddles.

to

die

for.