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Another United Nations climate report can only mean more evidence that ignoring humankind’s impact on increasing global warming precedes dire consequences. In late February, the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change published Climate Change
Read moreStagnant wages and prices rising from corporate gougeflation are not tough enough on America’s lowest wage earners. So, here comes Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) with a proposal to target and tax the 47 percent of Americans who currently don’t
Read moreLefty is left out – if not left behind. Three-time Masters winner Phil Mickelson is skipping that tournament this week following the fallout from his flirtation with a proposed new Saudi Golf League. Jay Busbee of Yahoo
Read moreWe had an interesting – and encouraging – development up in the Cap City last month. Late night March 23, Gov. Kevin Stitt’s plan to raid state school funding for the benefit of profitizing privateers was defeated in the
Read moreThe bad news – as anyone buying groceries or gasoline realizes – is that prices have increased. The encouraging news is that Americans have zeroed in on who to blame – and it’s not the government. The action
Read moreLast week, after a three-year hiatus due to Republicans’ love of gun violence, the Violence Against Women’s Act made it through Congress as part of the $1.5 trillion government spending package. As Jennifer Bendery of Huffington Post noted
Read moreMardi Gras (Fat Tuesday), falling on March 1 this year, means Ash Wednesday follows, issuing in six weeks of Lent before Easter Sunday. At a time when a Pew Research Center study shows that an increase in the number
Read moreLast December Huffington Post’s Sarah Ruiz-Grossman reported on a study in The Lancet Planetary Health journal that said, “Nearly 60 percent of young people surveyed said they were “very” or “extremely” worried about climate change, and 45 percent said
Read moreIgnorance is bliss – according to Republicans. More specifically, they advocate ignorance in education, indoctrination over inquiry and investigation. They are afraid of facts and those who wield them. Bad enough that they sit zombie-like in front of
Read moreA new report by federal climate scientists predicts, “Sea levels along coastlines in the United States will rise about one foot by 2050, with larger increases on the East and Gulf coasts,” according to Rebecca Hersher of National Public
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