Sea Stars in Peril
Walk along any stretch of the Northwest’s rocky coast before 2013 and you were sure to see bright purple and orange clinging to the shore’s igneous monoliths. Pisaster [...]
Articles by erinbenton1
Homeownership Trends: The Good and The Bad
I purchased my first home almost one year ago. Besides the steep learning curve of home financing, plumbing and electrical systems, and texturing walls, I have begun to pay [...]
The Effects of Title IX
The National Football League (NFL) boasts almost 1,700 players and, unsurprisingly, every player is male. Some professional sports in the United States have a women’s [...]
The Disappearance of Bees: Colony Collapse Disorder
While newly elected President Donald Trump is seeking control and censorship over the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) online presence with the removal of the [...]
Consuming News
Over 3.2 billion people accessed the internet in 2015. With the continual expansion of accessibility comes incredible volumes of information and misinformation. Fifty years [...]
Watermen Sinking: Tangier Island
The Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the United States. The states of Virginia and Maryland straddle the 200 mile long confluence of Mid Atlantic state tributaries [...]
Prison Privatization
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced it will not be renewing contracts with private corporations running prisons, eliminating over 22,000 beds or 12 percent of the [...]
Defending Bathrooms
North Carolina’s House Bill Two, Part One, formally called the Public Facilities Privacy And Security Act, addresses the use of single-sex, multiple occupancy bathrooms and [...]
Plant a Garden
While discussing the global ramifications of Brexit, the division of the Republican Party by Donald Trump, or the legalization of marijuana nationally are all invigorating [...]
Social Welfare and Fraud
My friend and I recently discussed his frustrations with government assistance programs. We supervise inmates from the local county jail and many inmates mention their past [...]
