Permanent Drought Seen for Southwest by 2050
The driest periods of the last century -- the Dust Bowl of the 1930s and the droughts of the 1950s -- could become the norm in the Southwest United States within decades because of global
Publicly Funded Clean Elections Programs a Tough Sell Across U.S.
Good-government advocates have hoisted Clean Elections programs as the next banner of political reform. But critics have, so far, staunched the nationwide spread of such programs, which are designed to provide full public funding for