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Friday, March 02, 2018

Some schools already arm teachers. Here's how they do it.

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Since the 2013 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, some opposed to gun control have suggested arming teachers. Critics...

Trump's steel and aluminum tariffs expose GOP rift; agriculture 'particularly vulnerable' to trade conflicts

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Washington Post graphic; click on the image to enlarge it. President Trump's planned tariffs on steel and aluminum have exposed a d...
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Columbia Daily Tribune 'gutted' since sale to GateHouse Media, journalism review story says

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The Tribune's publishing plant Journalists once knew Columbia, Missouri, as the best-covered small city in America, thanks to the d...
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EPA proposes rollbacks to Obama-era pollution rules for coal ash waste, air pollution from oil and gas drilling

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The Environmental Protection Agency announced significant changes Thursday to Obama-era regulations governing air pollution from oil and g...

EPA restores grants for Chesapeake Bay Journal

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"The Environmental Protection Agency agreed Thursday to restore $325,000 in funding this year for the Bay Journal , a publication wi...
Thursday, March 01, 2018

High Plains Aquifer depletion slows in Kansas, thanks to rain and better water-management practices

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Water-level changes in High Plains Aquifer 2013-18 (Kansas Geological Survey map; click on image for larger version) The High Plains aq...

As rural hospitals face choice of closure or change, key is catering to the needs of the local population, execs say

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Rural hospitals are reacting to the recent report by the Bipartisan Policy Center , which said the rural health-care system needs restruct...

Ga. teacher who barricaded himself in classroom and shot through a window had encountered police before

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Davidson A social-studies teacher in Dalton, Ga. (pop. 34,000), is facing charges after he barricaded himself in his classroom at Dalto...

As California political winds shift, separating counties by cannabis, one that enticed marijuana farms bans them

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Calaveras County (Wikipedia map) Marijuana farmers in Calaveras County, California, say they feel betrayed after county supervisors ent...
Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Gun debate could break U.S., conservative columnist says

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More than two weeks after the deadly school shooting in Parkland, Florida, the public debate about gun rights is still at a fever pitch. ...

Surveys show fewer Americans want coal-fired plants

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A study suggests that fewer Americans want coal-fired power plants — even Republicans, though a majority in that party still supports them....

Louisiana town's battle with rising sea levels raises a question: How far should the public treasury go to save it?

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A view of Jean Lafitte, La., along Bayou Barataria. (New York Times photo by William Widmer) How far should the public go to save a tow...

Trump is stalling for time on NAFTA, analyst concludes

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President Trump has been famously critical of the the North American Free Trade Agreement, but as the seventh round of negotiations to reca...

Coal slump puts Wyoming in budget crisis; citizens' group offers fixes for collecting taxes on mineral extraction

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"As Wyoming faces a statewide budget crisis caused by declining tax revenue from fossil fuel and mineral extraction, a group of rural...
Tuesday, February 27, 2018

USA Today shows one charming Main Street per state

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Main Street in the Dutch town of Pella, Iowa, includes tulips, pastries, and this whimsical windmill. (Google Maps photo) Here's a ...

W.Va. governor fails to pay tax struggling Ky. schools need

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Justice (AP photo by Walter Scriptunas) Coal companies controlled by the children of billionaire West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice owe $2....

Fellow GOPers criticize W.Va. governor for pushing gas-drilling bill that landowners and mineral owners oppose

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Legislators of both parties have criticized Republican Gov. Jim Justice of West Virginia for proposing a special session on natural-gas iss...

First story from ProPublica's Local Reporting Network says nuclear lab workers may have been exposed to toxin

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Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, the birthplace of the atomic bomb, may have exposed workers to harm after failing to keep tr...

Oxycontin maker quietly but repeatedly tried to weaken laws that can help send corporate executives to jail

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It's well known that Purdue Pharma made Oxycontin a popular drug through aggressive and misleading marketing tactics, which led to t...
Monday, February 26, 2018

White House defends, explains lack of direct investment in rural broadband in Trump's infrastructure plan

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"Amid criticism that President Trump's infrastructure spending plan -- $200 billion meant to seed more than $1 trillion in ultima...