The U.S. is in reverse regarding climate

Devastating wildfires, flooding and winter storms were among the 23 extreme weather and climate-related disasters in the US which cost more than a billion dollars last year – at an estimated total loss of $115billion. The last three years have shattered previous records for such events.

We can do better for our country

When Black leaders proceeded from Selma to Birmingham, Alabama, in 1965 to demonstrate for voting rights, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel marched beside the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. “I felt my legs were praying,” he said.

Olympics help quell sports shortage

Usually this time of year it becomes a sports wasteland of sorts with football wrapped up and the wait for baseball to fire back up.That’s certainly changed though through the years thanks to the Thunder. College basketball only really gets good in March.

We’re finally traveling back to the moon

For more than a half-century, the moon has orbited the Earth without a close human witness, its pitted, rocky surface unexplored, its far side unexamined, its mysteries left fallow.

Who won this round of culture war?

After the Puerto Rican superstar rocked the halftime show at the Super Bowl, Donald Trump derided his performance as “absolutely terrible, one of the worst, EVER!

Sen. Lankford points out ‘Fumbles’

In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, it’s obvious to state money and politics have been going steady for quite some time now. At root is taxpayers’ money and how it’s used. U.S. Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) has recently released his ninth edition of “Federal Fumbles.

AI, Pope Leo, warning from ‘Harry Potter’

In late January, a software maven launched Moltbook, an online platform that artificialintelligence bots quickly used to create the Church of Molt, with doctrines to guide digital life.

‘Black America’s love for America’

His grandparents and mother were born in Selma, Alabama, the site of the violence of the 1965 civil rights march that led to the Voting Rights Act.

CFD leadership is appreciated

Listening to scanner traffic comes with the job when working for a newspaper. It never fails – when it’s time to devote time to the mountain of work awaiting, a squawking, breaking news situation demands otherwise. Grab the camera and go, go, go.

The runaway horse that is Donald Trump

PALM BEACH, Fla. – From his lair at Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump sees the sun rising. His sunshine retreat doesn’t allow him to see the sun setting.But it is another of the human senses that may be the most important in this fraught epoch.