There is something perverse about capitalism and the global economy when a shipping company suspends cargo runs from Minneapolis at the height of harvest. We have food, something human being needs every day, and big business would rather haul coal…
Posts tagged as “Missouri River”
Snow falls. Snow melts. Rivers flood. It happened in 2011. It may happen again in 2014. If you're smart, you pay attention to flood plain maps and build on higher ground. If you're rich, powerful, and arrogant, you build in…
So did you hear the one about the guys who wanted to build a pipeline to ship Missouri River water to Phoenix and Las Vegas? No, seriously, that's one of the plans considered in a U.S. Bureau of Reclamation report…
The right-wing noise machine is ramping up its effort to prop up its failing worldview with the Missouri River flooding. Right-wing blogs are moving beyond citing these floods as evidence of government's inherent ineptitude to assert that the floods result…
Various commentators and former governors seeking elder statesman status are confusing flood control with flood elimination and blaming the Army Corps of Engineers for heavy snow and rain and houses built in a flood plain. If you'd like something you…