An interesting article in the NY Times (free registration required) about a web site that has helped change farm policy. The web site itself has quite a number of interesting stories that you don't hear too much about in the liberal press.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/24/politics/24WORK.html?todaysheadlines An excerpt: 'Throughout the angry Senate debate about whether to limit subsidies to wealthy farmers, lawmakers kept referring to "the Web site" to make their points. "You can see on the Web site -- 10 percent of the farmers get most of the money," said Senator Don Nickles, Republican of Oklahoma. "I looked up Indiana on the Web site," said Senator Richard G. Lugar, Republican of Indiana, "and very few Indiana farmers would be affected by a modest limit." No one had to ask, "What Web site?" It is http://www.ewg.org, operated by the Environmental Working Group, a small nonprofit organization with the simple idea that the taxpayers who underwrite $20 billion a year in farm subsidies have the right to know who gets the money.' -- Doug email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zo.com/~brighto "Now people stand themselves next to the righteous And they believe the things they say are true They speak in terms of what divides us To justify the violence they do" Jackson Browne, It Is One
