A recent editorial “Expansion of Starry Stonewort in Chautauqua Lake Is Worrisome” rightly raises concerns about Starry Stonewort in Chautauqua Lake, but it lacks important context and accuracy. As stated in the editorial, Dr. Rob Richardson of NC State, presenting at last weekend’s ...
Trumpty Dumpty has laid an egg with his ‘plan’ to import 100 million eggs from Turkey. Faced with the problem of inflation and rising food prices, especially eggs, Trump ‘worked a deal’ with Turkey. Hooray! Trump saved the American Breakfast! Stop and think, how eggsactly was this ...
It always amazes me when I attend one of these. That local school kids can put on such an exceptional performance combined with all of the choreography and building of stage sets—is a great testament to our system of public education. As a grandparent of kids so involved, it makes me not a ...
A recent executive order by President Donald Trump to streamline regulations and allow more timber to be harvested from U.S. Forest Service lands invites what possibly could be a trivia question: Under which U.S. department’s jurisdiction does the U.S. Forest Service fall? If you answered ...
Opportunities to fix U.S. Supreme Court opinions can be infrequent. Very infrequent. It took until 2018 for the court to abrogate its 1944 Japanese-internment-camp opinion in Korematsu v. United States. Now the high court has an opportunity to clarify a 2014 opinion that has caused ...
It was a cause for celebration when Sen. Charles Schumer announced in November 2023 that the U.S. EPA was going to take the lead cleaning up the rubble left behind when the former Crawford Furniture building burned to the ground. City officials and Schumer pushed for the EPA to demolish what ...