the moon's favors: follow the money: the Virginia Public Access Project

2012/09/06

follow the money: the Virginia Public Access Project

VIRGINIA—It might have been overwhelming for any newsroom to try to track the political advertising cash flowing into the Commonwealth this year. But it isn’t. As noted in earlier Swing States Project pieces, reporters here have a unique resource from which to draw: the Virginia Public Access Project.

http://www.cjr.org/swing_states_project/for_untangling_campaign_spendi.php

To follow the political money: a wonderful tool »

And Virginia’s newsrooms are under-using it

Words whisper, carrying more than one might know, hypostases, rather than mere understanding. Words grow from roots, spawn families, travel and mingle, get lost, get found, and often marry the strangest bedfellows. Like our bodies, our ideas, and our culture, words evolve, handed down to us from a place beyond memory. As the warp and woof of language, words possess the magic to shape the immaterial into the solid things of psyche ~From my intro to AO's The Archives of the Heart

The Platonic tradition may be likened to an underground river that from time to time sends up a spring; wherever its waters flow, the soul is reborn, and with it the conception of intellectual form, the beautiful, and true art.~ Kathleen Raine