Groups Helping Med Students Tied to Anti-Immigrant Outfit Kaiser Health News
By Victoria Knight | KHN
In their last year of medical school, fourth-year students get matched to a hospital where they will serve their residency.
The annual rite of passage is called the National Resident Matching Program. To the students, it’s simply the Match.
Except not every medical student is successful. While tens of thousands do land a residency slot every year, thousands others don’t.
Those “unmatched” students are usually left scrambling to figure out their next steps, since newly graduated doctors who don’t complete a residency program cannot receive their license to practice medicine.
Outdoor art and the beauty of Mother Nature soon could share a scenic hilltop in Hempfield.
The Westmoreland Land Trust proposes to establish a nature and art park on a 96-acre farm it acquired along Beech Hills Road, off Old Route 66, just 3 miles from downtown Greensburg.
“The property sits at a high elevation relative to neighboring properties and provides expansive views of the surrounding area,” said Betsy Aiken, executive director of the land trust. That includes views of the Chestnut and Laurel ridges to the east.
“To make the best use of its scenic qualities, we see the value of incorporating works of outdoor art,” likely sculptural pieces, she said. “It’s our hope that, by doing so, we will encourage more people to visit the park and to become familiar with the property’s conservation and the value of land conservation in general.”
The Extremist Campaign to Blame Immigrants for U.S. Environmental Problems
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With growing frequency over the past four years, right-wing pundits, policymakers, and political operatives have fiercely and furiously blamed immigrants for the degradation and decline of nature in the United States. William Perry Pendley, who temporarily ran the U.S. Bureau of Land Management under former President Donald Trump, saw “immigration as one of the biggest threats to public lands,” according to an agency spokesperson.
1 A handful of right-wing anti-immigration zealots, including Joe Guzzardi, have repeatedly misused data published by the Center for American Progress on nature loss to make xenophobic arguments for anti-immigration policies.