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By Anna Gerber, Director of Communications, Colorado State University College of Agricultural Sciences Dave Holm was destined to work with potatoes. He was raised on a potato farm in southeast Idaho, where his dad and grandfather instilled in him a love of one of the world’s most important crops. The first in his family to go to college, he studied plant science during his undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of Idaho as he narrowed his focus to potato breeding and physiology....

Type keyword(s) to search "I Lived With the Astronauts": PM at the Beginning of U.S. Spaceflight In December 1959, Popular Mechanics spent a week with the Mercury 7 astronauts and witnessed the beginning of U.S. human spaceflight. By Joseph N. Bell CorbisGetty Images On this day 60 years ago, Alan Shepard packed into the cramped Freedom 7 capsule atop a Mercury-Redstone rocket and blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The NASA astronaut climbed to an altitude of 116 miles above Eart...

A set of bills before the Connecticut General Assembly are meant to open more opportunities for women and girls. The bills have the support of the state’s

Snopes, Military.com and other MSM outlets falsely smeared Sen. Cotton and maligned his exceptional military record. The authors of these articles, only one of which served in the military (USMC) and certainly none Rangers themselves, ignorantly, maliciously, and without understanding Ranger ethos and history falsely defamed a soldier with an exceptional military record.    Sen. Cotton, after graduating from Harvard Law School and working as an attorney, decided to join the military in the af...

Why nobody can quite agree on what makes you an Army Ranger Alex Hollings , Close icon Two crossed lines that form an X. It indicates a way to close an interaction, or dismiss a notification. Sen. Tom Cotton. Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images A media call-out of Republican Sen. Tom Cotton for calling himself an Army Ranger has ignited another debate over what it takes to be a "Ranger." The de...

comments Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., has over the years routinely puffed up his political bona fides by embellishing his military service record, claiming in multiple interviews and campaign ads not only to have been a U.S. Army Ranger, but to have served in action as a Ranger — and, at one point, to have earned the Bronze Star "as a Ranger." Salon reported on Friday that during Cottons first congressional campaign, the Harvard Law grad claimed to have served as a Ranger and acquired "experie...

Republican Sen. Tom Cotton ‘Don’t fall for it’: Arizona congressman and former Marine who gets the same intel as Tom Cotton warns some GOPers are exaggerating the Iran threat SalonJanuary 23, 2021 Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas has accrued a resume tailor-made for a Republican politician: He leapt from a small-town Arkansas cattle farm to Harvard University and then Harvard Law School; he left a leading New York firm to join the military after George W. Bushs re-election; he ...

42 CAMP FOSTER, OKINAWA, Japan – He grew up working on farms and construction sites whilst moving all over Wisconsin and even to Pennsylvania and Georgia with his three younger sisters. However, U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Shane Holum, a combat engineer with Headquarters and Support Battalion, Marine Corps Installations Pacific – Marine Corps Base Camp Smedley D. Butler, always felt there was something more for him. “I have always been interested in doing things that are diffic...

Strongest party and saxony at the same time at the other end of the spectrum the green party has been very successful in present representing a kind of count to balance to that they have a program they have a legacy of decades here and still a very young party and they seem to be able to mobilize voters as well the greens look set to double that figure from the last time around. but the look set to come on top of that election slogan is we all the people but thats all quite true. to get more tha...

Will not be able to find enough votes." the presidents tweet not the only one getting some attention. we had jeb bush, former governor of florida, calling to remove the supervisor of elections, brenda simes, for her mistakes to comply with florida law. our producer here a little while ago asking supervisor snipes specifically about the governor calling for her removal. here is what she said. she says "i heard he wants me out. thats his opinion. he cant take away a persons opinion. my opinion is ...