by mary1988 | Aug 14, 2019 | 2019
I subscribe to The New York Times, my friends to The Wall Street Journal. Both newspapers are targeted to the intellectual reader. So, why is it so difficult to discuss matters of importance? The daughter of an Irish Catholic mother and a father of...
by mary1988 | Jul 24, 2019 | 2019
I do not want to “send her back”, but welcome her, instead, with yellow roses. On August 18, 1920, thousands of yellow rose petals floated wildly through the air above Tennessee’s legislative chamber as a 24-year-old first-term Republican cast his “Aye” vote in...
by mary1988 | Jun 24, 2019 | 2019
Our climate is changing now. Extremely rapidly.Expect wetter winters and springs with heavy rain, snow events. Intensity and frequency of tornadoes, large hail, damaging thunderstorm winds.Rain events exceeding 6 inches now occur...
by mary1988 | Jun 17, 2019 | 2019
Check out this story in today’s Detroit Free Press to see why Laura O’Brien and so many others give me hope someday the only colors we will see in the skies above our Great Lakes will be those gloriously painted by God! “18,000 pieces of balloon...
by mary1988 | Jun 14, 2019 | 2019
My name is Lara O’Brien and I am a master’s student at the University of Michigan’s School for Environment and Sustainability. I am currently researching the environmental impact of balloon releases in the Great Lakes, Here’s a link to a...
by mary1988 | Apr 22, 2019 | 2019
Forty-two volunteers picked up 43 balloon remnants and ribbons along the shores of Saugatuck Dunes State Park on Saturday, April 20th. They also collected 860 pieces of plastic, 528 straws, 393 plastic bottle caps, and 326 cigarette butts and cigar tips. Our litter...
