Ted Cruz launches bid to sell off our public lands

That would be Sen. Ted Cruz, and no one exemplifies the polluter-friendly politician more than Mr. Cruz does.
There is nothing more sacred to all Americans than the great network of public lands we are all part owners off. But many politicians like Mr. Cruz don't give a damn and would just as soon see them all dotted with drill rigs, open-pit coal mines, and slag heaps.
Read the sordid details in this piece.

Poll shows most Westerners like federal control of public lands

Too bad this article doesn't also explore the attitudes of folks in the East, especially here in New England. In any case, though, the poll's findings are a stick-in-the-mud to some wacko Western politicians, including the governor of Utah.

Favorite places and Wild Nature - some words for keeeping them

This is the column I wrote several weeks ago for publication in a Sunday edition of the Standard-Speaker, Hazleton, Pa. Old amigos know that's where I worked as a daily journalist for a decade-and-a-half while also finishing a 26-year career as an Air Force officer. Read on and remember well your own favorite places. And also fight for their protection from "growth" and economic this-and-that.