Dec 27, 2019 | Environment
POLICY 40 million people in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming depend upon the Colorado river for their water. This is in addition to a water-hungry $5 billion-a-year agricultural industry. There is a 2007 agreement – that includes...
Dec 27, 2019 | Environment
Policy Summary Last week, the Chile/Madrid UN Climate Change Conference closed with disappointingly familiar lip-service to the value of addressing climate change while doing nothing to challenge the status quo or address historical emission sources. Officially called...
Dec 23, 2019 | Civil Rights
Policy Summary On December 12, 2019 Circuit Judge Alice M. Batchelder issued the opinion of the court in Kollaritsch v. Michigan State University. This opinion helped to clarify how “student – on – student” sexual harassment incidents are to be...
Dec 20, 2019 | Economic Policy
Policy Summary In spite of generally positive economic indicators there are worrisome trends emanating from the Midwest, particularly in five essential swing states. Manufacturing and agriculture have been impacted by the tariff wars and there is every indication...
Dec 20, 2019 | Immigration
Policy Recently, there have been some victories by way of upholding the US Constitution in the wake of the Trump Administration’s lawless attempts to limit immigration and install Trump’s long promised Border Wall. The first case, filed in El Paso covers Trump’s...