Obeying an under-the-radar executive order, the Army Corps of Engineers has expedited every permit asking for destruction of wetlands throughout the United States, including a strip that runs unbroken down the nation’s West Coast from Seattle to Santa Barbara.
“Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work or device or knowledge or wisdom in the grave where you are going.” That’s good stuff, strong and dark, from Ecclesiastes.
Underneath the daily sturm und drang in the brief life of the new administration, tectonic plates in an old alliance are shifting. And as the old world reveals its democratic core, the new world is losing it.
Kansas Chief Justice Marla Luckert has moved quickly and decisively to bring back prompt access to new court pleadings, a longtime tradition in the courts of America.
In a town where the most destructive of all weapons was made, a big portion of the townspeople own guns while their kids play softball, go fishing at the gun club, and attend public school.