In 2017, Trump Needs to Deliver on his Campaign Pledges
For the first time in history, a presidential candidate ran on a platform that espoused as its central theme immigration enforcement. Donald... Read More
Rocky Mountain National Park: Business Is, Alas, Booming
National Park Service By Alan Prendergast December 29, 2016. WESTWOOD News that Rocky Mountain National Park's visitor numbers are headed... Read More
Tinkering with the Visa Waiver Program
The Visa Waiver Program (VWP) is back in the news, but this time with an encouraging note. The program which allows visitors... Read More
Christmas Market Slaughter Intensifies Trump’s Resolve to Reconsider Refugee Resettlement
By Joe Guzzardi December 29, 2016 When the 23-year-old Tunisian refugee Anis Amri plowed his truck into a group of innocent... Read More
Let’s Start the New Year by Resolving to be Honest about Immigration
President-elect Donald Trump was the only candidate in the 2016 race for the White House to propose securing our borders and enforcing... Read More
President Obama’s Environmental Legacy: Mixed and Vulnerable
By Leon Kolankiewicz December 28, 2016 In his insightful 2015 book, Presidents and the American Environment, environmental historian Otis L. Graham,... Read More
Obama, not Trump, sold DREAMers out
By Joe Guzzardi December 26, 2016 As seen in: The Daily Courier Tulsa World Casper Network DREAMers, formally known as Deferred Action... Read More
Another Job Americans Won’t Do: Work on a Cruise Ship
By Joe Guzzardi December 27, 2016 Cruise ship travel continues to gain in popularity as passenger demand can barely keep up... Read More
CEQA provides protection for underserved communities
Poor communities and communities with people of color are subject to an unfair share of the pollution that accompanies economic activity, from... Read More
Crazy California Lurching to the Ledge
By Joe Guzzardi December 26, 2016 Judging by California’s political landscape, I got out of the state where I was born... Read More