No federal program protecting natural areas and assisting local and state recreation projects has had the reach and the importance of the Land and Water Conservation Fund. Thousands of individual initiatives – some possibly affecting you and your family directly – have been assisted by the ...
If indeed Iran is behind recent attacks on several tanker ships carrying petroleum products, action by the world community – not just the United States – may be necessary. But as of Thursday, only circumstantial evidence of Iranian complicity had been provided. On was on that day that two ...
What issue seems to unite members of the Democratic Party these days? Is it climate change and the desire to eliminate all fossil fuels from the American energy portfolio? Not quite. Although many Democrats support the so-called Green New Deal, plenty still stop short of calling for a full ...
We have never seen anything quite like the field of 24 candidates now running for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. As journalists, we at times find it somewhat overwhelming to keep track of not only the candidates, but the plans they are espousing. We can only imagine how confusing ...
From the 1950s through the end of the 1980s, the U.S. was obsessed with space exploration. The height of this era was the July 20, 1969 moon landing. This time frame aligned with the height of the Cold War. Certainly, much of NASA’s work was done to ensure the U.S. did not surrender the ...
New Hampshire is the only state in Democrat-heavy New England (plus New York) that features a minimum wage lower than $10.10 per hour, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. Even some so-called “red states,” signifying their voters’ relatively strong approval of President Donald ...