Times change fast: Before the 2018 Farm Bill, Sen. Debbie Stabenow of Michigan couldn’t get a hearing scheduled on climate change. She had to call it a “severe weather” hearing.
The Ides of March — March 15 — arrived last Monday. It’s a date made forever notable by William Shakespeare in his historical drama “Julius Caesar.”
Dear Paddy,
I’m once again going to tell Congress how to do its job.
I’ve never been much for surfing lazily through the TV channels in search of something interesting.
If our climate crisis requires plucky survival strategies, consider Israel: a narrow strip of semi-arid land sustaining 9 million people, without much oil, bounded by hostility and the sea.
Iowa Republicans notched a slam dunk in 2020.
It’s cold.
Really cold.
And it’s cold in the midst of a pandemic.
So everyone’s trying to cope. Sometimes not an easy challenge.
Gov. Kim Reynolds’ message for Iowans has been consistent since the coronavirus pandemic arrived a year ago:
It’s 18 below outside. The car wouldn’t start and the furnace faltered a few days back. A new battery and furnace filter later, we are confined with an impeachment trial on the television.