Keeping Track Of Damage Getting Difficult

June 9, 2025 Editor, The News-Gazette: The federal government doesn’t want to admit that hotter, more polluted oceans, cutting into our coastlines, is much to worry about; the president hasn’t sent a representative to international conference where experts are trying to deal with it. Meanwhile, the standards of workplace safety are weakened, people with low incomes may be out of luck if they need medical care, and, just lately, non-citizens, people who have been allowed to stay here because they have a justified fear of thugs back home, or of their tyrannical government, are losing protected status.