The nuclear states have mostly not fulfilled their pledge to disarm. This leaves the world divided between the dangerous have-states and the dangerously exposed have-not-states. Some critics have called this “nuclear apartheid.”

The “shock and awe” attack strategy of the Trump Administration is being deployed against our 160-million-acre national forest system.

The best-selling book is a page-turner filled with confidences and self-effacing humor.  Awarded dual fellowships at Harvard, Ardern continues to teach there and advocate for a new kind of leadership -- one she calls “both caring and effective.”

Greenland is the world’s largest island. It’s about five times the size of California, and about 80% of it is covered in ice up to two miles thick (but shrinking). Its population is about 58,000 (the same as Lacey, WA) and seems to be shrinking as well.

His battle on behalf of the houseboats restored Pettus’ reputation and made him into a hero. Mayor Charles Royer designated March 7,1982 as Terry Pettus Day. The city set aside the street end just south of the houseboats as Terry Pettus Park in 1985.

One of the privileges of living past 80 is that we can remember a time when housing was not seen as a problem, and “homelessness” was not a word.