This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It has been 20 years since New Orleans’ faulty levee system failed during Hurricane Katrina, causing a flood that claimed almost 1,400 lives and inflicted more than $150 billion in economic damage. The catastrophe was so bad…
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The other message on the president’s hat Re: “FBI searches home, office of former Trump adviser,” Aug. 23 news story When President Donald Trump was interviewed about the FBI raid on John Bolton’s house on Friday, he was wearing a new cap with the printing “Trump was right about everything!” That is fitting because in…
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In this aerial view taken in 2024, melting icebergs lie in the Ilulissat Icefjord in Greenland. It sounds like something out of science fiction: In the late 1950s, the US Army carved a tiny “city” into the Greenland ice sheet, 800 miles from the North Pole. It had living facilities, and scientific labs, and working…
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Failed project is a concern for Westminster Re: “Downtown to get injection of life with park, food hall,” Aug. 18 news story Because I am running for mayor of Westminster and Sarah Nurmela is running for re-election to the City Council of Westminster, I was surprised that John Aguilar’s article did not mention Councilmember Nurmela’s…
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This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The US government is a big-time hoarder. At last count, in three locations — Denver, Fort Knox, and West Point— it had socked away 248,046,115.696 troy ounces of gold. One might think to round that to the nearest ounce,…
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Ford President and CEO Jim Farley speaks at Louisville Assembly Plant as the company shares its plans to design and assemble breakthrough electric vehicles in America on August 11, 2025. President Donald Trump has made no secret of his disdain for electric vehicles and is slamming the brakes on government incentives to get them into…
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Trump has misjudged Putin and sold out Ukraine President Donald Trump’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin inspires comparisons with the meeting in late September 1938 between Adolph Hitler and UK Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. Chamberlain returned to the United Kingdom on September 30, 1938 and declared “Peace For Our Time”. He achieved that peace…
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Legionnaire’s disease has sickened more than 100 people in New York City and killed five. Climate change will push the bacteria to even more US cities. Air conditioners have been working overtime this hot summer, from those tiny window units to the massive AC towers that serve the tightly packed apartment buildings in major cities….
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Ignore the slant against Trump and have hope Re: “A barrage of bad news followed by some good recipes,” Aug. 14 letter to the editor I have a suggestion for the writer of “A barrage of bad news,” who is seeking solutions for the litany of doom-and-gloom headlines she lists. First, not all of the…
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A NOAA hurricane specialist tracks Tropical Storm Erin’s progress on August 13, 2025, at the National Hurricane Center in Miami. Erin was upgraded Friday morning from a tropical storm to a hurricane, a storm with sustained winds above 74 miles per hour, making it the first hurricane of the 2025 season. Despite a relatively calm…
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