April 13, 2001

Bush Puts Strong Courts on Endangered Species List

By Deborah Goldberg

President Bush wants to pick and choose when his administration will obey the law. In a budget document sent to Capitol Hill on Monday, he has asked Congress to eliminate funding needed for compliance with new court orders enforcing the Endangered Species Act. If the President gets his way, judges might decide that the government has violated that law, but administration officials will be able to thumb their noses at the courts.

Philadelphia Inquirer
January 6, 2001

The nation lost a visionary earlier this month when Pulitzer-prize winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks passed away at 83. Brooks may be remembered most fondly for her ability to portray the experience of America’s young black people with honesty and compassion. She often wrote from her own experiences on Chicago’s South Side, explaining, “I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.”