Starting with packed public hearings in 2007, the controversy over new coal-fired power plants in Holcomb galvanized Kansans like no other environmental issue. As the political drama played out in Topeka, outraged citizens followed all the twists and turns like celebrity devotees itching to know who was heading to rehab. Maril Hazlett was Kansas coal's Perez Hilton. On the Land Institute's Climate and Energy Project blog, Hazlett has continued to monitor the pulse of a legislative battle that's still going on, sitting in every public meeting, updating her faithful with live coverage of key votes and committee showdowns. She captures lawmakers' dialogue and translates, into a layperson's terms, all the complicated jargon and institutional wrangling that go into public policy. And unlike her snarky and partisan brethren on the Internet, she plays it straight. Just the facts, from a friend in the know.