By JOHN SCHWARTZAPRIL 2, 2014
LOCKEFORD, Calif. — Helping America’s beleaguered bees could start with something as humble as planting a shrub.
Here in California’s Central Valley, researchers are trying to find assortments of bee-friendly plants that local farmers and … Read more »
New York Times.
Perhaps now the deniers will cease their attacks on the science of climate change, and the American public will, at last, fully accept that global warming is a danger now and an even graver threat to future … Read more »
The Aliens Have Landed
In the ’30s, as Germany rearmed, we said, “Yeah, France can handle that.” Earlier this week, the Panzer Corps of climate change zoomed right around our Maginot line of denial, and we all became the retreating … Read more »
Soaring Profits but Too Few Jobs
By WILLIAM A. GALSTON
Facts often speak for themselves, but sometimes they scream out at us. That is what the employment market is doing.
Today, 75 months after the Great Recession began, 57 months … Read more »
Greenland’s immense ice sheet is melting as a result of climate change.
By JUSTIN GILLIS
YOKOHAMA, Japan — Climate change is already having sweeping effects on every continent and throughout the world’s oceans, scientists reported on Monday, and they warned … Read more »
By Elizabeth Warren, Reader Supported News
Hobby Lobby doesn’t want to cover its employees’ birth control on company insurance plans. In fact, they’re so outraged about women having access to birth control that they’ve taken the issue all the way … Read more »
By NICHOLAS KRISTOF
In the debate about poverty, critics argue that government assistance saps initiative and is unaffordable. After exploring the issue, I must concede that the critics have a point. Here are five public welfare programs that are wasteful … Read more »
“When I came out and saw my loss, I mean you literally just cry.” – Andrea Germanos, staff writer.
The record cold that gripped much of the Midwest this winter added insult to injury to already struggling bee populations.
While … Read more »
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2014/03/18/arizona-right-refuse-legislation-discrimination-column/6529235/… Read more »
