Renee Shur, Author at Occasional Planet

Beefing up the facts on global warming

March 11, 2013 Renee Shur Climate Change, Consumer issues, Environment, Science One comment

In a shameless demonstration of feigned ignorance and pandering, some climate-change denying Republicans, like Representative Dana Rohrabacher of California, and Speaker John Boehner, have

Corporate advertising on the school bus and in your kid’s backpack

March 4, 2013 Renee Shur Business, Children, Consumer issues, Corporations, Education, Youth issues Leave a comment

Here’s a riddle: What’s big, bright, and yellow, rides on four wheels, and markets junk food to kids five days a week? If you

This is your representative on guns

February 22, 2013 Renee Shur Congress, Crime/Violence, Guns, Violence Leave a comment

It’s been just over two months since twenty children and six adults were brutally gunned down at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Since then thirty-three

A healthy dose of good government: Flu shots at the pharmacy

January 28, 2013 Renee Shur Business, Democrats, Good government, Health, Health care, History, States Leave a comment

One afternoon last week, I walked into the pharmacy in my local supermarket. Twenty minutes later, I left after receiving a needle’s worth of

Playing chicken with the debt ceiling: So dangerous, even Reagan wouldn’t go there

January 14, 2013 Renee Shur Budget, Consumer issues, Economy, Financial reform, Good government, Politics, Republicans, Senate, Taxes Leave a comment

$18.9 billion. That’s what the 2011 debt-limit standoff and the threatened U.S. credit default will be costing taxpayers in higher interest payments over the