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Openness

Recovered from the Wayback machine. The current Proposition B debate in the state legislature has not been a demonstration of openness in government. As I highlighted earlier, the Missouri Senate Agricultural committee has passed a bill to send to the Senate floor that states it’s only a modification, when in actually it completely guts Proposition […]

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Madonna of the Mills

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. A friend pointed out a new documentary, Madonna of the Mills. It’s about Laura Flynn Amato’s mission to save dogs from puppy mills. The trailer demonstrates the problems associated with large scale commercial dog breeding. At one point in the movie, the camera shows a poor retriever, who turns and looks […]

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More backdoor legislative moves

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Tomorrow is going to be a nasty day, weather wise and in the state legislature. Two bills are doing to be discussed in public meetings: hJR 3 and HB 100. HJR 3 wants to put a bill on the ballot to vote on a Constitutional amendment to ensure that no other citizen initiative […]

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Long descriptions and political cartoons

One of the still open issues with HTML5 is the lack of a verbose descriptor for an image, since the longdesc attribute was made obsolete. The longdesc attribute used to take a URL to a separate page or page fragment that contained a long text description for a complex or highly nuanced image. Typically, the […]

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And now…the political cartoons

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. FiredUpMissouri has links to two different political cartoons related to the recent Proposition B legislative activity. I thought I would provide a long description for these cartoons for my friends using screen readers. The first cartoon is from RJ Matson for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. It features a dog, standing in […]