Posted August 29, 2012 by Bob Deans
The killing of Billy the Kid was still within living memory for some on the stark, wind-swept prairie outside Ft. Sumner, N.M., when Powhatan Carter's grandfather settled there to raise cattle in 1937. Twelve years later, Pow was born there,...continued→
Posted August 3, 2012 by Bob Deans
LAMAR, CO. - A third generation farmer and rancher in southeast Colorado, Jensen Stulp lives close to the land, supporting his family on what it provides and working to keep it fertile and strong. To protect his topsoil from blowing...continued→
Posted September 22, 2011 by Bob Deans
Poor Darrell Issa. Just nine months after his fellow House Republicans became captives of the tea party gang, he seems to have forgotten the difference between propaganda and progress. Fortunately, the American people have not. In a hearing today before...continued→
Posted September 20, 2011 by Bob Deans
House Republicans are using the failure of Solyndra, the solar panel maker, to launch a political broadside, attacking President Obama and his visionary program to promote energy efficiency, renewable power and American jobs. Solyndra’s bankruptcy has raised important questions. The...continued→
Posted April 14, 2011 by Bob Deans
April 20 marks a year since the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded over a BP well, killing 11 workers and opening a gusher that spewed some 170 million gallons of toxic crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico. One year...continued→
Posted October 19, 2010 by Bob Deans
We Americans expect our presidents to fix big problems. The BP oil disaster was too big to fix. Six months after the blow out, though, President Obama has grasped three important lessons and taken action on each. That's leadership too. Lesson...continued→
Posted September 28, 2010 by Bob Deans
After traveling 14,000 miles and hosting 34 town hall meetings in the five Gulf Coast states, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus released his 126-page Gulf restoration plan on Tuesday, putting meat on the bones of President Obama's promise to stand by...continued→
Posted June 18, 2010 by Bob Deans
One of the world's top surfers, Laird Hamilton is at home in the ocean. He routinely rides waves three stories tall and has surfed some twice that high. On Thursday, though, looking down on the Gulf of Mexico from the...continued→
Posted June 12, 2010 by Bob Deans
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal gazed at the giant twin-rotor helicopters working the skies above Buras, a low-lying delta town several miles from where the Mississippi River begins to give itself up to the Gulf of Mexico. One after another the...continued→
Posted May 20, 2010 by Bob Deans
Morning broke bold and bright over the broad wetlands of Louisiana's Grand Bayou, where Byron Encalade stood on a 24-foot flatboat gliding over narrow channels of brackish water, past plywood cabins with clapboard siding, corrugated tin roofs and names like...continued→
Posted March 22, 2010 by Bob Deans
Clean energy and climate legislation should get a boost from a letter 22 senators have sent to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., urging swift action on the legislation this year. The senators, including many key swing moderates who have...continued→
Posted March 11, 2010 by Bob Deans
Forty years ago this spring, we were a nation divided by war in Vietnam. The Chevrolet Monte Carlo got 11 miles to the gallon. Simon and Garfunkel were making their way up the charts with “Bridge Over Troubled Water.” And...continued→
Posted February 1, 2010 by Bob Deans
The Pentagon has singled out global climate change as a potential enemy of the state. The environmental havoc it stirs is making the world a more dangerous place by increasing the stress on millions of people living on the front...continued→
Posted January 28, 2010 by Bob Deans
President Obama has laid to rest any doubt about his determination to push for comprehensive clean energy and climate legislation, placing it near the center of his jobs agenda and casting it as essential to American competitiveness. "The nation that...continued→
Posted December 19, 2009 by Bob Deans
Denmark has given us The Little Mermaid, the world's greatest pastry and the most famous literary question of all time. "To be, or not to be," Hamlet, prince of Denmark, asks in what may be Shakespeare's greatest soliloquy. The grand...continued→
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