by Eric Englert | Aug 11, 2017 | Education
WASHINGTON – School districts in the United States face special challenges when fracking operations draw new students to their communities and administrators have difficulty planning for resources and funding in cycles of boom and bust, according to a new study...
by Eric Englert | Aug 3, 2017 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Forest Service continues to spend more than half of its budget on fighting fires — more than it does on preventing them, causing a cycle of re-escalation and devastation for towns across the state of Oregon, according to agency officials and...
by Eric Englert | Aug 2, 2017 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — The effort to ensure increased recruitment and retention of Latino federal employees has largely stalled since the Clinton administration, and leaders of Latino federal workers said Tuesday that President Donald Trump should revive and fund the...
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by Eric Englert | Jul 27, 2017 | Education
WASHINGTON — On some of the nation’s college campuses, a culture of sanitized conversations and sensitivity, reinforced by the polarization in contemporary American society, has caused an uptick in the suppression of free speech, several experts say. Lecturers have...
by Eric Englert | Jul 26, 2017 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON- Foot and Mouth Disease disaster preparation has been neglected, according to leading pork producers, veterinarians and researchers, who caution of the potential for a meat export crisis unless an emergency vaccine bank that protects against all 23 active...
