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The Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland and Jo-Ann Stores Inc. are teaming up for a series of interactive activities around moCa's current exhibition, "Margaret Kilgallen: that's where the beauty is." (Hudson-based Jo-Ann is the lead sponsor of the show, which moCa says "evokes the vitality of American street and folk life, as well as vintage signage and typography.) On Saturday, Feb. 29, and on two other Saturdays, March 7 and 21, from noon to 4 p.m., guests can design and print their own T-shirts. On April 4 and May 2, Jo-Ann facilitators will lead tutorials featuring one of Kilgallen's passions, handlettering. Through May, moCa said, the museum's first floor will be home to an interactive installation "in which visitors are invited into a unique Art Stories booth, where they are prompted to record stories of items they would create with their hands, hearts and minds for loved ones." The activities will culminate on May 16, with artmaking opportunities throughout the day.

Bloomberg reports that the Senate could vote next week on a piece of legislation that "aims to boost energy storage technology as well as nuclear and renewable power," and includes a measure from U.S. Sen. Rob Portman, R-Cincinnati. The bill, unveiled Thursday, Feb. 27,"represents the latest Republican approach of promoting clean energy while steering clear of mandates to cut emissions of climate-warming gases or stop fossil fuel development on public lands," the news service reports. It "seeks to spur carbon capture, grid modernization and security and also includes a measure championed by Susan Collins of Maine ... that would fund an Energy Department research program to reduce the cost of grid-scale energy storage. The technology could transform the wind and solar industries by allowing, for example, solar power made during the day to be used at night," according to the article. Bloomberg says the bill also includes "a long-stalled measure" from Portman "that would increase energy efficiency in residential and federal buildings and a separate measure aimed at helping the development of new nuclear reactor technology."

It's a busy week for Portman, who also has an op-ed piece in Barron's with Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Maryland, that highlights what they call "the next big legislative step forward to ensure hard-working Americans achieve a safe and secure retirement." They write that the Retirement Security & Savings Act "includes a broad set of reforms designed to strengthen Americans' retirement security by addressing four major opportunities in the existing retirement system: (1) allowing people who have saved too little to set more aside for their retirement; (2) helping small businesses offer 401(k)s and other retirement plans; (3) expanding access to retirement savings plans for low-income Americans without coverage; and (4) providing more certainty and flexibility during Americans' retirement years." Portman and Cardin argue that the measure "will build upon the success of the SECURE Act legislation to strengthen our private retirement system and help more Americans save for their retirement which was signed into law late last year."

The Wall Street Journal runs a letter from an emeritus professor at Case Western Reserve University that takes issue with former Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele's defense of the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. From Erik M. Jensen's letter: Under the compact, signatory states would have to allocate their electoral votes to the candidate who wins a plurality (not a majority) of the national popular vote. Even so, the compact is a recipe for disaster. Compact supporters seem to assume that presidential races will continue to be dominated by two candidates, one of whom will get, if not a popular majority, at least a plurality above 40% thus showing some national support. But the Electoral College, as it now works (with a winner-take-all system in all but two states), is one reason we've had two dominant parties. If the national popular vote controls the outcome, we can expect several candidates with a chance of winning to be on the November ballot. We could have a "winner" with only, say, 30% (and maybe even less) of the popular vote, and he or she could be someone unacceptable to the rest of the electorate. That's crazy. It's like being declared the "winner" of a presidential primary with 25% of the vote. Jensen concludes, "Another problem with the compact is that when the popular vote is close, a national recount would be necessary. With the Electoral College, recounts are typically required in at most a few states; the college generally provides a clear winner. With the compact, however, the ballots in every precinct in the country would require rechecking. Does Mr. Steele really want Bush v. Gore on steroids?"

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