The kids were intelligent, inquisitive, and way ahead of me on the issues of sustainability. When Hall-Dale teacher Bob Sinclair invited me to speak to his class of juniors and seniors studying sustainability, I was very pleased.

This just in from a new Esquire/NBC News study: There are more Americans in the vast middle than on either the left or right.

THE CLOSING OF America’s national parks was among the most emotionally charged aspects of the 16-day federal government shutdown. As party leaders raced to make a deal to reopen the government and avert a default, House Republicans were accusing the head of the Park Service of trying to make the shutdown “as painful and as visible as possible.”

DID MICHIGAN VOTERS violate the U.S. Constitution, when they amended their state constitution to prohibit public universities from taking race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin into account when making hiring, contracting or admissions decisions?

A Maine Compass on Oct. 1, “Bear hounding, baiting, trapping are cruel, unsporting practices,” written by Connie McCabe, accused the Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine of “spinning the wheels of misinformation” about bear hunting in Maine.