How does an agency named the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention fail to “control or prevent” a pandemic like COVID-19? Because it was off-mission, said Dr. Brian Miller with the American Enterprise Institute. Instead of intensely focusing on tracking communicable diseases and ...
The Founding Fathers were a quiltwork of conflicting personalities. George Washington was dignified and coolly aloof. Thomas Jefferson went around with his head in the clouds. John Adams was perpetually looking for someone to argue with. Bookish James Madison was a brain with arms and legs ...
Last week, the third overhaul of the state’s education funding formula was unveiled before the Senate Finance Committee, which decided to include it in the Senate’s proposed state budget for the next two years. Gov. Chris Sununu unveiled his plan in his February budget address, the House ...
My family and I follow the weather closely. We even frequently tune in to the Weather Channel. But I never dreamed the cable outlet would become today’s Walter Cronkite. Alas, it is so. A new YouGov survey ranked the Weather Channel as America’s most trusted news source, ahead of several ...
There’s a sneaky climate villain flying under the radar these days: methane gas. With all the focus on decarbonizing the energy sector and reducing carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere, it can be easy to forget that methane is 25 times more potent. Methane gas is emitted from petroleum ...
The Russian military on May 8 officially acknowledged that it had employed its new “Universal Gliding and Correction Module,” or UMPK, against Ukraine. Designed to turn a “dumb” bomb into an inexpensive guided glide bomb, the UMPK fills a critical gap for the Russian air force. The ...
