Hardin, Montana, population approximately 3,500, situated on the remote northern Great Plains, not far from Little Bighorn. Like countless other small towns, Hardin’s fortunes have waned as traditional industries have become less profitable or simply moved on. In 2004 the city created the Two River Authority (TRA), a quasi-governmental economic development agency charged with creating [...]
Blackwater has a new name and look. The infamous security company has been given a makeover, and if I’m correct, most Americans will forget. Former: Current: From a design perspective, the new website has a much lighter background, and the main area has a white background. As if to escape the old name decisively, the [...]
Following up on my last post and Dan’s comment, I will borrow from a far better wordsmith than myself: Five years after the Abu Ghraib revelations, we must acknowledge that our government methodically authorized torture and lied about it. But we also must contemplate the possibility that it did so not just out of a [...]
If you have not looked over the torture memos, please do so. Then, take a look at this video from Philip Zelikow, a high level State Department lawyer during the Bush administration. He authored a memorandum expressing grave concerns with the legal reasoning underlying those torture memos. While a copy of Zelikow’s memorandum is not [...]
You know how sometimes you just need to get out of town? Thankfully, that was yesterday. To start things off, the Environmental Law Society had a trip to Turtle Cove research station in Manchac, LA. The first interesting observation from that trip was the highway, I-55, itself. Because the land is so swampy, the entire [...]
High Drama on the High Plains
Hardin, Montana, population approximately 3,500, situated on the remote northern Great Plains, not far from Little Bighorn. Like countless other small towns, Hardin’s fortunes have waned as traditional industries have become less profitable or simply moved on. In 2004 the city created the Two River Authority (TRA), a quasi-governmental economic development agency charged with creating [...]