Predictable spending on infrastructure would vastly improve its quality.

“The irony here is colossal. Mr. Cuomo, who banned hydraulic fracturing despite the economic boon it has created in neighboring Pennsylvania, and who has repeatedly blocked construction of pipelines, is making New York even more dependent on natural gas, which will increase its carbon emissions.

Europe is rich and capable. Perhaps it is time to acknowledge that America can be an adversary as well as a partner.

  PETER O’CONNOR Staff Columnist oconnor@lbknews.com Recent front page news brings these islands to the attention of many. Indeed this chain of “salt islands” is not found in your average lexicon. Some of you, our readers, may have heard of them; some of you may even have visited one or more of them.  Long, long […]

Blocking natural-gas pipelines needlessly inflates consumers’ energy bills and destabilizes the electrical grid.

I’ve written on the subject of sequestration in these pages. The Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States has been my source before. Hunger is a new subject this month.
That is an unfortunate topic, but needs to be covered.

“If you value religious education or life’s sanctity, you’re not welcome in the party.”

Whether this kind of upward mobility is still possible today given the changes to our economy and culture is an open question.

A 2008 study in Science found that converting natural environments for biofuel production can produce hundreds of times more carbon emissions than the biofuels themselves would save.

In our Democracy the collection of the will of the citizenry is essential.