Great lead! I wish I could hear what else Bill has to say, but I probably won't be able to be there. Will he have a text that might be published on line or in the Iowa Sierran later? Bill Witt > Central Iowa Sierra Program: > Wednesday, May 19, 7:30 p.m. > > Bill Leonard > "Sisyphus Had It Easy" > > Environmentalists enter the political fray burdened by the greatest > handicap that the game can impose. There is no escaping the handicap, no > appeal, no way to rewrite the rules to get an even break. No other cause > faces a handicap of similar magnitude. But if the activists even think of > giving up, they will have broken faith with the future. > > Bill Leonard worked as reporter and/or editor on newspapers in Nebraska, > Kansas and South Dakota before coming to Iowa. He retired three years ago > after 30 years on the editorial staff of the Des Moines Register. In the > course of writing more than 10,000 editorials, he changed exactly one > mind. > His own. > > Central Iowa Sierra programs are held at 7:30 p.m. at Grace United > Methodist > Church, 37th and Cottage Grove in Des Moines. > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > To get off the IOWA-TOPICS list, send any message to: > [log in to unmask] > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - To get off the IOWA-TOPICS list, send any message to: [log in to unmask]