Reporting right from Madrid, where climate hypocrisy was alive and well at COP-25 They came for your car, your light bulb, your dishwasher and washing machine, your toilet, your electricity, your airline flight and so much more. Now you can add your burger and steak to their list of what they want to legislate, regulate […]
Inconvenient facts show why wind energy is not renewable, sustainable or climate-friendly Wind turbines continue to be the most controversial of so-called “renewable” energy sources worldwide. But, you say, wind is surely renewable. It blows intermittently, but it’s natural, free, renewable and climate-friendly. That’s certainly what we hear, almost constantly. However, while the wind itself […]
Biofuels are unsustainable in every way, but still demand – and get – preferential treatment The Big Oil-Big Biofuel wars rage on. From my perch, ethanol, biodiesel and “advanced biofuels” make about zero energy, economic or environmental sense. They make little political sense either, until you recognize that politics is largely driven by crony-capitalism, campaign […]
How politically diverse is the Yale faculty today? According to an article by James Freeman in the Wall Street Journal, “0%.” He notes, “Nobody looks to the Ivy League for balanced political discourse. But a new report suggests that on at least one campus, the stifling of conservative views among faculty members is nearly complete.” […]
Moses plays a huge role in the early pages of the Bible. He courageously confronted Pharaoh when Israel was under bondage in Egypt. He was the leader of the children of Israel as they traveled through the wilderness for forty years. He had a special relationship with God, such that God spoke to him face-to-face, […]
Local writer and former elementary school teacher, Connie Warnock, recently published a warm-hearted and funny story of a litter of puppies who get into some mischief on Christmas Eve. Sure to become a new holiday tradition, “A Christmas Tail” is loosely based on a true experience that her own family (and pups!) survived one Christmas. […]
Here comes Santa Claus, here comes Santa Claus right to Hood River County Fairgrounds during this year’s Last Chance Holiday Bazaar, December 14th & 15th, 10am-4pm! Bring in your family from 12pm-2pm and take advantage of this FREE photo opportunity while all the good girls and boys tell Santa their Christmas wishes. Parking and admission […]
By most accounts, American colleges and universities are highly successful businesses, with students clamoring for admission and willing to pay whatever tuition, room, board, and books the school demands. That may seem like an ideal business relationship, where the customers are very happy with the products offered and the business is very happy with the […]
Banning neonic pesticides in wildlife refuges would hurt birds, bees, other wildlife and people. The House of Representatives Committee on Natural Resources recently approved HR 2854, the 2019 Protect Our Refuges Act, prohibiting the use of neonicotinoid insecticides in any of the nation’s 560 National Wildlife Refuges, some of which are the size of Delaware […]
Fluffy 5-month-olds Murphy and Lena move in at zoo’s Cascade Crest habitat There’s plenty of kidding around at the Oregon Zoo this week as two young Rocky Mountain goats settle into their new home. The fluffy 5-month-olds — a male named Murphy and a female named Lena — will join adult mountain goats Sassy and […]
