We’ve entered fraught days for the future of public discourse in the United States. Consider some of the news in the three months or so before Trump’s inauguration.
Rural economies and surviving mill towns have struggled economically for decades. No one has come up with a credible plan to reverse their economic slide.
Puget Sound orcas spend a lot of time in other waters, swimming along the coast from California to Canada. Wherever they go, they prefer to eat Chinook. And wherever they go, the Chinook are in trouble.
Some of us found the outcome disappointing. Retired 4th Circuit appeals Judge J. Michael Luttig said on CNN that the decision was “stunning in its overreach.”