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Author's Biography

Eugene Elander has been a progressive social and political activist for decades. As an author, he won the Young Poets Award at 16 from the Dayton Poets Guild for his poem, The Vision. He was chosen Poet Laureate of Pownal, Vermont for his poem Pownal People. His three new verses for America the Beautiful:September 11, 2001 were widely acclaimed and read into the Congressional Record by U.S. Senator Chris Dodd.
Mr. Elander has authored three volumes of poetry: The Right Click, The World Click, and Journeyings, all written from 2004 to 2006, in the U.S. and Sweden, as well as two published novels: The Goat of God, and Turning the Tides, both available on Amazon.com in Kindle and electronic pdf editions. A self-help book titled Empowerment:Taking Charge of your Life has just been completed and awaits publication.
Mr. Elander is a freelance columnist who published a newspaper for ten years in New London, CT. He is an economist and college lecturer, and has been an agency executive director, emergency management consultant, investigator; and former animal control officer, deputy code enforcement and health officer for Farmington, New Hampshire. He and his wife Birgit, who co-authored The World Click, divide their time between Georgia and her homeland, Gotland, Sweden.
Several other books are underway, including a sequel to The Goat of God, and a public version of his doctoral dissertation on Cooperatism, a new economic system he developed which includes all stakeholders (workers, consumers, and the public as well as stockholders) in crucial decision making. Mr. Elander is a member of the Stonepile Writers group in Georgia and is president of his own Elander Press.

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13 Diaries

Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Caribbean Cruise Line: When it sounds too good to be true, it is!
As people get ready to book Holiday Season cruises, they need to be aware of this particular travel scam from Caribbean Cruise Line of Florida

Friday, April 30, 2010
Fate, Bad Karma, and Offshore Oil Drilling
The recent BP oil rig disaster proves once more how bad an idea expanded offshore drilling is -- and what an even worse idea it is, when proposed by President Barack Obama.

Sunday, February 7, 2010
Toyota's Fall from Grace
Toyota's safety problems and defects go back to at least the 1990s, and the firm's coverup of those problems goes back that far, too. It is a sad day for those of us who trusted Toyota and bought their vehicles.

Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Nix the Toyota Fix
North American Toyota has yet to come up with a plausible explanation for the sudden acceleration of their vehicles -- and has yet to implement a real solution to this very serious problem.

Sunday, October 11, 2009
Raining on the Obama Parade
The Republican National Committee chairman was petty, spiteful, and malicious in his remarks upon the awarding of this year's Nobel peace prize to President Barack Obama.

Saturday, September 19, 2009
Are the Inmates Taking Over the Asylum?
Why is there such a vicious negative reaction to a mild article on Joe Wilson? Could it be that the forces of darkness on the Right are attacking OpEdNews itself? We need to find out.

Thursday, September 10, 2009
Turning the Terrorist Tides
Eight years after the terror tragedy of September 11, 2001, we are not nearly as safe or secure as we could and should be. The article explains why this is the case, and recommends solutions now.

Sunday, August 9, 2009
The Big Lies and the Big Liars
(1 comments) The far right is attempting to use big lies to destroy the chances of passage for the Obama health care plan. They have become the big liars once again.

Sunday, May 17, 2009
Will the real Barack Obama please stand up!
Barack Obama is letting progressives and America down by allowing military tribunals to continue, blocking further release of photos of detainee abuse, and now appointing a pro-pollution lawyer to head the EPA. Shame on him.

Monday, February 23, 2009
Dumb and Dumber: The Sequel
Why are many Republican governors raising doubt about even accepting their states' allocation of economic stimulus funds? Their real agendas are addressed in this timely article.

Thursday, February 19, 2009
Republican Rage and Infamy
An analysis of why the Republicans in Congress rejected the just-passed economic stimulus package, and why they are totally wrong in doing so.

Thursday, January 29, 2009
Shame on the Republicans!
The House Republicans are called to task for voting unanimously against the President's economic stimulus package. They are compared to the Roman Emperor Nero, who fiddles while Rome burned. Shame on them!

Thursday, January 22, 2009
What a difference a day makes.....
An op-ed piece on the beginning of the Obama administration and the end of that of his predecessor, the article puts both in historical and human perspective. The issue of Bush's failure to pardon many people is a particular focus; W. seems to have cared more for the Thanksgiving turkeys he spared than for mercy for some Americans who deserve it.

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