TOWN 'N COUNTRY - Adam Carr didn't think he would win the Camp Hyatt "On Assignment" kid reporter contest. ...more

October 28, 2009

TOWN 'N COUNTRY - Adam Carr didn't think he would win the Camp Hyatt "On Assignment" kid reporter contest. ...more

October 28, 2009

Even with three locations in its empire, the National Museum of the American Indian can display barely 1 percent of its 800,000 objects. To help close that gap, the museum has decided to set up a digital showcase. ...more

February 1, 2009

The Bush administration's effort to free federal agencies from the Endangered Species Act is bad environmental policy and a waste of tax dollars. ...more

January 2, 2009

Parts of the Endangered Species Act may soon be extinct. The Bush administration wants federal agencies to decide for themselves whether highways, dams, mines and other construction projects might harm endangered animals and plants. New regulations, which don't require the approval of Congress, would reduce the mandatory, independent reviews government scientists have been performing for 35 years, according to a draft first obtained by The Associated Press. ...more

August 12, 2008

I itch. As I write this, I am trying mightily to keep from removing my fingers from the keyboard and raking them across the ugly, raised red patch on my shin. Or the one ringing my wrist. Or the one spread across my forearm. Or the one slightly north of my pinkie toe. Or the one shaped like a chain of Caribbean islands two inches from my belly button. ...more

July 27, 2008

From the moment his mother placed him in a Jolly Jumper, his feet acting like springs propelling him into the air, Steven Stamkos held a miniature hockey stick in his hands. ...more

June 15, 2008

I was somewhat taken aback when the feds listed the intrepid polar bear as an "endangered species" earlier this month. ...more

May 27, 2008

Protecting the environment is a noble cause, although the consequences can be costly. ...more

May 13, 2008

These days the news is full of beautiful - and wrenching - images of polar bears, often swimming in unending open water, or standing on tiny ice floes. ...more

February 26, 2008