by Taylor Goebel | Mar 30, 2017 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON: Erin Macdonald has a Ph.D. in Astrophysics, loves Star Trek, and is education manager for World Space Week. She is also working toward her candidacy for state legislature. Macdonald wants to connect science and politics in the public eye, and running for...
by Taylor Goebel | Mar 7, 2017 | Immigration
WASHINGTON – About 200 people rallied outside the White House Monday evening to protest President Donald Trump’s revised executive order that temporarily halts entry to the United States for citizens of six Muslim-majority nations calling it “Muslim ban 2.0” and an...
by Taylor Goebel | Mar 6, 2017 | Politics
WASHINGTON – Crime and violence in Latin America and the Caribbean come with a hefty price tag – $261 billion, or about 3.5 percent of the region’s gross domestic product, according to a new study by the Inter-American Development Bank that analyzed the costs of...
by Taylor Goebel | Mar 1, 2017 | Environment
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump on Tuesday mentioned the environment only once in his 75-minute address to Congress, saying only that “my administration wants to work with members in both parties…to promote clean air and clean water.” Earlier in the day, he signed...
by Taylor Goebel | Feb 17, 2017 | Immigration
WASHINGTON — Hundreds of immigrants and their families marched two miles to the White House on Thursday instead of going to work, shutting down more than 80 area restaurants to show what a day without them in the workforce looks like. Similar demonstrations...