SolarWinds Hack Followed Years of Warnings of Weak Cybersecurity Congress and agencies shelved security recommendations that were considered high priority while investing in programs that have fallen short.
Bloomberg | Jan 15, 2021
Alyza Sebenius (Bloomberg) Congress and federal agencies have been slow or unwilling to address warnings about cybersecurity, shelving recommendations that are considered high priority while investing in programs that have fallen short.
The massive cyber-attack by suspected Russian hackers, disclosed in December, came after years of warnings from a watchdog group and cybersecurity experts. For instance, the Cyberspace Solarium Commission, which was created by Congress to come up with strategies to thwart sizable cyber-attacks, presented a set of recommendations to Congress in March that included additional safeguards to ensure more trusted supply chains.
Jill Biden picks Pa. star swimmer and ‘political junkie’ for her press secretary
Updated Jan 15, 2021;
Posted Jan 15, 2021
Press Secretary Michael LaRosa, an Easton Area High School graduate, with incoming First Lady Jill Biden.David Lienemann photo provided as a courtesy to lehighvalleylive.com
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For an Easton Area High School athlete, there are few greater honors that having your photo put up on the Wall of Fame on the 25th Street campus in Palmer Township.
But for Michael LaRosa, a star swimmer who graduated in 2002 and who was added to the wall in 2003, there’s no need to look back in search of his glory days.
Former Easton High star swimmer is named Jill Biden’s press secretary
Updated Jan 15, 2021;
Posted Jan 15, 2021
Press Secretary Michael LaRosa, an Easton Area High School graduate, with incoming First Lady Jill Biden.David Lienemann photo provided as a courtesy to lehighvalleylive.com
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For an Easton Area High School athlete, there are few greater honors that having your photo put up on the Wall of Fame on the 25th Street campus in Palmer Township.
But for Michael LaRosa, a star swimmer who graduated in 2002 and who was added to the wall in 2003, there’s no need to look back in search of his glory days.
Four years of Trump administration attacks on California s public lands, and the lasting impacts
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President Donald Trump visits a neighborhood impacted by wildfires in Paradise, Calif.Evan Vucci/Associated Press
Over the past four years, President Donald Trump s repeated attacks on the public lands of California and beyond have inflamed the conservation community. The administration gutted conservation laws. It denied climate change. It attempted to slash budgets and hollow out crucial agencies.
Together, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), the United States Forest Service and the National Park Service manage more than 40% of the land in California. And despite a dramatic increase in visitation to California’s federally managed parks, forests and rangelands in the past few years, the Trump administration has routinely attempted to reduce resources for those agencies.
Auditing U.S. Democracy
The presidency of Donald Trump catapulted the topic of democracy to the forefront of political thought and discussion. This is for good reason: Throughout the past four years, we witnessed the creation of an immigration policy that is tantamount to ethnic cleansing; a president who used twitter and campaign rallies to stoke white nationalist hostility; the emergence of an authoritarian love triangle between the president, cops, and far-right vigilantes; displays of symbolic and literal violence against the press; and most recently a president who, with the support of GOP elites and much of the party’s electorate, doubled down on claims of election fraud rather than concede, paving the way for a Biden presidency to be treated as illegitimate by an entire political party. The topic of American democracy deserves our attention today. However, the Trump years do not mark some abandonment of previously rich democratic politics. To the contrary, American democrac