An area man in Newark recently received the "Greenest Citizen of Ohio" award from Denison's Campus Sustainability Club (CSC). Jeff McDevitt, the award's recipient, has been homeless for almost 15 years. In that time he has managed to make significant progress in what environmentalists call his "green number.
One of the most influential bipartisan acts that Congress has passed in recent memory is the much lauded McCain-Feingold Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA), passed in 2002 to limit spending on political campaigns. The act attempted to eliminate the role of soft money in federal elections, and it put severe restrictions on campaign spending by unions and corporations.