Before being executed in 1860 for his misadventures, William Walker, known as a 'filibuster,' raised a private army and briefly installed himself as the president of Nicaragua.
As 2021 came to a close, editorial writers in four death penalty states called for legislative and executive action to end capital punishment or further…
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Scott Martelle is correct [May 16 Daily News]. The Vineyard Wind Project just approved by the Biden administration is a step in the right direction. Just as vaccines are the way out of the coronavirus pandemic, new clean energy sources are the way out of our climate catastrophe.
Climate change is already here and every season, we feel its effects: extreme heat, sea level rise, drought, flooding, intense storms, and out of control wildfires. The energy choices we make now can help mitigate future impacts.
Clean energy? More, please.
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Scott Martelle
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As of about noon Monday on the West Coast, the nation had endured at least 355 separate shooting incidents over the previous 72 hours in which 123 people died and 297 were wounded. The sick thing is that’s not unusual.
I looked up the stats on the Gun Violence Archive as I contemplated the fourth mass shooting in Colorado in 2021, the most recent coming Sunday in Colorado Springs. A circle of family and friends had gathered to celebrate a birthday at a trailer in a mobile home park when, according to police, the boyfriend of one of the celebrants showed up with a gun and shot six adults avoiding shooting children who were present and then himself.