Lillian R. Mongeau

A Dream No Longer Deferred

A Dream No Longer Deferred

How Obama's student loan reform is changing the affordability of college. Jurena Storm was so sure she wanted to go to college in California...

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Teach For India Tackles Mumbai's Slums

How the Teach for America model is being put to use in India. Skinny arms stretched high-59 eager hands rose above 60 equally eager faces. Even...

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Students in California Take to the Freeways

Last night in Oakland, over 150 people protesting education budget cuts were arrested. Sebastian Beretvas, a 12-year-old who attends a local ...

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How Can Protest Be Grassroots and Also Organized?

March 4th's National Day of Action is hitting more than a few roadblocks. California was once considered one of the preeminent states in the...

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America's Gas Problem

America's Gas Problem

Have rising gas prices actually made a difference in driving habits? Apparently, they have. Sort of. People are driving less, but more gas is...

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Gas Loss

Gas Loss

Not only does gas cost $500 a gallon (this is an exaggeration, nowhere in America has gas even reached the $100 a gallon mark), but according...

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Who Killed The Electric Car?

Who Killed The Electric Car?

Now that An Inconvenient Truth is out, we need a new movie to flog. And we've found it. Who Killed The Electric Car? Who, indeed? We're going...

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Gas Attack

Even though gas prices continue to rise, it seems as though American drivers are really not that interested in doing anything to alter their fuel...

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Blast From The Past

Blast From The Past

There is more and more talk of the U.S. returning to a coal-based energy economy, with very little seeming to actually be done about it....

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In The Black Gold

In The Black Gold

You'll be hearing a lot about how much money gas companies are making in the next few days. To put things in perspective a little more, only...

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Charging Ahead

Charging Ahead

A new lithium battery-powered automobile promises up to 300 miles on a single charge. The cars, produced by Hybrid Technologies, will sell...

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Gas Maps

Gas Maps

As gas prices continue to rise, it starts to become a better and better idea to find the cheapest gas stations. This map lists average gas...

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Hybrid Frenzy

Hybrid Frenzy

Hybrids used to be the domain of starry-eyed idealists and kooky environmentalists. But, as gas prices rise and as car manufacturers throw...

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