I remain amused and frustrated over the conversation about labor shortages at the same time that there are millions of people desperate to enter the United States. But is alleviating labor shortages i
This is the grave of David Houston. Born in Monroe, North Carolina in 1866, Houston grew up in middling circumstances. His father was a horse dealer who also ran a grocery. What Houston definitely was
This is the grave of Gilbert Haugen. Born outside of Orfordville, Wisconsin in 1859, he attended the local schools and then in 1873, the family moved to Decorah, Iowa. He attended a couple of small an
There’s a concept pushed in recent years by environmental scholars that what capitalism does is create “cheap nature,” or the push to commodify the natural world in a way that rips t
On January 10, 1939, tenant farmers in the Missouri Bootheel created roadside protests for the rights of tenants and for a rural New Deal, a symbol of the long-term struggles of the rural poor and the
This is the grave of Orville Freeman. Born in 1918 in Minneapolis, Freeman grew up a Depression child. His father owned a clothing store but he went bankrupt due to the Depression. But Freeman went to
The Green Revolution certainly has produced a vast amount of crops that has fed the world. Can’t really argue with that. But the use of massive petrochemicals is also not sustainable and has a h
Most of the attention on water supplies in the Southwest as to do with the region’s exploding population. Fair enough, and I’m not sure the fountains at the Bellagio are exactly a necessar