We're Killing Our Lakes and Oceans. The Consequences are Real.  We only need to look to the Mediterranean Sea and the North American Great Lakes for dramatic illustrations of what lies in store if we don't act now.  On January 5, 2018, a paper published in the journal Science delivered a sobering message: The oxygenation of open oceans and coastal seas has been steadily declining during the past half century. The volume of ocean with no oxygen at all has quadrupled, and the volume where oxygen levels are falling dangerously low has increased even more.  We're seeing the...

via email Ready or Not I recently read “A Weighty Concern” in Kent State Magazine [fall 2017]. After graduating, I spent 27 years in the U.S. Air Force before entering the corporate world. Over 70 percent of high school seniors today are unfit for military service because of obesity issues, a lack of overall fitness, poor education and criminal records.  I belong to Mission: Readiness (one of five organizations that make up Council for a Strong America), which represents a bipartisan group of more than 700 retired generals and admirals who advocate for early childhood education, ph...