The first thing Mariel Gardner mentioned was the sound. Cicadas and katydids buzzed while butterflies and bees drifted among bright yellow blooms in Louisville's Chickasaw Park. Gardner smiled. "This is what I wanted to hear," she said. A new aptly named Butterfly and Bee Pollinator ...
There's poison in the air outside my house, a bitter smoke of ashes and hot freeway, and it is keeping us all inside. Yesterday morning, the kids' summer camp announced that the planned trip to the pool had been cancelled. They would do activities indoors all day. "How high can it get?" one of the boys asked, and I admitted I didn't know. We had gone through a stretch of bad air a few years earlier -- also due to invading smoke from Canadian wildfires -- and I remembered feeling worried back then, seeing numbers in the 180s. The air quality index for the town today showed 244. ...
For some reason, many Americans seem convinced they have to tour Europe this summer -- despite the heat, oppressive crowds and high prices all descending on the continent. And if anyone needs a fourth reason, it's to recognize the growing resentment among many Europeans as the tourist hordes ...
If someone had predicted forty years ago that one person would emerge on the national political stage and dominate the political conversation on a daily basis, you would declared that person to be? Well pick the adjective you like to describe such a far-fetched notion. Well boys and girls, ...
After what we have experienced recently I assure you America will never again hire anyone who would serve as president into their 80s. No blame can go to the founders of our nation who did not feel that it was necessary to put an age limit on the presidency. And then we had the "Joe Biden and Donald Trump combo." By 2028 we would have had 12 consecutive years of total dysfunction, for various reasons, coming out of the Oval Office. There is virtually no corporation, nor is there any other occupation or career that would allow anyone to work in an official capacity into their 80s. It is ...
During the World Cup, the American 250 and Fourth of July celebrations, people from around the globe have seen our country from a different viewpoint from what they were sold in their homeland by government officials and the media overseas. The cool thing is, they liked what they saw. People ...
