by Stephanie Kraft | Sep 1, 2011 | News
Behind one news story after another is the intensifying conflict between our need for water and our need for energy. Spot-on information and commentary about this elemental clash comes from Alec Prud’homme’s The Ripple Effect, a book that manages to...
by Chris Lehmann | Sep 1, 2011 | News
Remember social equality? Of course you don’t. Back when America was still under the sway of the New Deal, few questioned that it was a good thing for our civilization to strive to provide citizens with roughly equal access to social goods such as a decent...
by Our Readers | Sep 1, 2011 | News
Bravo for Beavers What a great article [“The Flood Control Squad,” August 25, 2011]! And perfect timing, as beavers are being discussed as an excellent tool for salmonid recovery! Just last week Brock Dolman [director of the Occidental Arts and Ecology...
by Cristina Marcos | Sep 1, 2011 | News
While the headlines earlier this summer about Boston Globe journalist Sally Jacobs’s new book, The Other Barack: The Bold and Reckless Life of President Obama’s Father, focused on the startling revelation that the president’s parents might have...
by Tom Iacobucci | Sep 1, 2011 | News
The number of people who are unemployed in America is almost equal to the number of people who belong to a labor union. Both groups are being blamed for the faults in our economy. Don’t have a job? Are you one of the 40 percent of jobless Americans who are...