Source: Los Angeles Times “County commissioners in the rural American West possess the daunting authority of Afghan warlords, it’s been said. They wield their power by demanding federal agencies do their bidding in the vast expanse of public lands in which the counties are embedded.” By STEPHEN TRIMBLE County […]
Source: USA TODAY “Groundwater pumping also can draw away water that would otherwise flow in rivers and streams. In a separate study, scientists found that groundwater pumping has caused the flow in U.S. rivers to decline by as much as half over the past century.” Ian James USA […]
BY JOHN SIMERMAN as published on NOLA.com There’s no shortage of thoroughbreds boxed into the trailers that rattle into the dirt parking lot at Dominique’s Livestock Market in Opelousas on Tuesdays, to be sold to the highest bidder… And there’s plenty of unwanted attention around the stockyard’s auction […]
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