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Minimizing Lake Erie’s Algae Bloom Impact on Ohio

The thought of algae conjures up an image of slimy green gunk covering water no one would want to touch. Or a pool not properly maintained. Or a putrid smell. However, many fail to recognize the severity of an algae bloom’s impact on human and animal health, the environment, and even a region’s economy. The […]

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Interview with Sandra Knauf, Author of Please Don’t Piss on the Petunias

Sandra Knauf has worn many hats in her garden writing career—she’s been a “Colorado Voices” columnist for The Denver Post and her work has appeared nationally in publications that include GreenPrints and Mary Janes Farm; she’s shared her work locally here on USR and on Colorado Springs’s NPR affiliate radio station KRCC. In 2011, she

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America’s Rights

The only thing as bad as the naïve, self-promoting bureaucratic, self-pitying, excuse-making, manipulative, overly idealistic, pretentious, system-sucking Democrat is the self-righteous, birth-entitled, Christian “Right,” “everyone-has-a-choice” preaching, bean-counting, in-denial-of-their social advantage, and blind to how the other half must live Republican. The only thing as great as the forward thinking, solution focused, empathetic, compassionate, self-sacrificing, social-class

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American Imperialism in Venezuela

In May of 2018, Nicolas Maduro was re-elected for another term as Venezuela’s president and sworn into power on January 10th 2019. This second term will continue to 2025. However, foreign powers such as the European Union, United States, and the Lima Group have denounced Maduro as Venezuela’s president. In the months following Maduro’s “election,”

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