An extreme drought in Texas is forcing the town of Wichita Falls to take drastic action, using treated waste water for drinking. As KERA News reports: “Wichita Falls could soon become the first in the country where half of the drinking water comes directly from wastewater.” Mayor Glenn Barham says three years of extreme drought […]
A San Bernardino County school board says it is “deeply sorry” for asking middle-school students to debate whether the Holocaust really happened. NBC4 reports that Rialto school officials at a “contentious meeting Wednesday evening” called the debate a “horribly inappropriate assignment” and that School Board President Joanne T. Gilbert said school district leadership “accepts responsibility […]
Michael D. Shear of the New York Times examines how popular culture has incorporated the issues that President Obama has faced. Shearer writes: “Five and a half years into his presidency, Mr. Obama has had a powerful impact on the nation’s popular culture. But what many screenwriters, novelists and visual artists have seized on is […]
More than three decades after the accident at Three Mile Island cast a shadow on the atomic dream, is America again ready to give nuclear energy a chance? What is the future of nuclear energy in America? New reactors “have been proposed, encouraged by President Obama, who has described nuclear energy as necessary — along […]
The controversy over Terri Schiavo’s case elevated a family matter into a political battle that continues to frame end-of-life issues today. As the New York Times reports, “For 15 years, Terri Schiavo was effectively a slave — slave to an atrophied brain that made her a prisoner in her body, slave to bitter fighting between […]