Our octogenarian president traveled 8,000 miles to meet with India's premier, Narendra Modi, and to attend the G20 summit in New Delhi. He then flew another 2,000 miles to visit America's new pal, Vietnam — all over the course of just five days. That's a demanding trip, even for a younger ...
Last week, the Governor of New Mexico confronted what she claimed was a health crisis, and her solution was to deny law-abiding folks the right to bear arms. The health crisis she identified was an uptick in the murder rate in the city of Albuquerque. And her solution was to turn off the ...
The presidential horse race is off and running on TV news and on social media. History tells us that the poll numbers at this point reveal close to nothing about the future. The political pundits portray their analyses as thunderbolts carried down from Mount Olympus. But frankly, anyone could ...
Today's hyperpartisan and frequently negative news cycle ignores one significant and uplifting story: the precipitous decline of global inequality. It's a subject that deserves our attention, for it reveals the power of markets, trade and human ingenuity to lift up societies. For decades, ...
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is a bit older and a lot wiser than former President Donald Trump. Biden, a young, fit 80, traveled on major diplomatic missions to India and Vietnam while Trump, an old, heavy 77, was booed at an Iowa football game. Trump didn't dress for a Big Ten big ...
PITTSBURGH — Last Monday, Philip Ameris, president of the Laborers' District Council of Pennsylvania, was standing on Grant Street watching the members of his union march down the main thoroughfare of the annual Pittsburgh Labor Day Parade, the day's largest such celebration anywhere in the ...
To be honest, one of the reasons I make many of my students blow bubbles in the first weeks of the semester is so that they can make a scene. Pouring out of the classroom and into the wider spaces of our science building and the great outdoors, they take bubble wands from cups of solution and ...
The phrase "fighting Irish" did not originate with Notre Dame's football team, but with the Irish immigrant soldiers who fought for the Union during the Civil War. It was Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee himself who is said to have coined the term, a testament to the bravery and effectiveness of ...
The Community Renewable Energy Program (CREP) is the most impactful step Utah communities can take to reduce our carbon emissions and positively impact our climate and air quality. Signed into law in 2019, CREP is the pathway for Ogden, and other communities, to work with Rocky Mountain Power ...
As summer comes to an end and the weather cools down, the back-to-school season raises concerns about our cybersecurity capabilities. Education systems, from K-12 to community colleges and universities, have become a prime target for cybercriminals and hackers. These attacks put personal ...
