modern drainage tiles and ditches carry runoff from farm fields faster than before, and the increased flow of water erodes stream and river banks more. This is why sediment loads are greater and why that sediment is also filling in Lake Pepin. There's no doubt that farming has changed how much and how fast water flows in rivers, and is also reducing the amount of ground water since it no long is able to slowly soak into the soil.

it's that I see absolutely no need to make such a change in the first place. Currently churches are free to voluntarily not agree to give their blessing as it is, and if a divorced couple can't get married in a Catholic Church, they still can legally wed. If we haven't bothered to make a change to civil unions from civil marriage despite that, then the only reason I can see no good reason for doing so with respect to same-sex couples.

was more or less in its infancy, and the fact that some journalists picked up on how the Earth was currently in an interglacial period that had been cooling for the past 10,000 years led to reports that we were on our way to an ice age, given their superficial understanding about the Earth's climate. In the past 40 years the amount and quality of data that has been gathered and advances in computational models that climatologists use have given us a much better idea about how our climate...

Of having the tax base be roughly 1/3rd property, 1/3rd sales and 1/3rd income is a good one in terms of more fairly sharing the burden. My partner will be happy to know that sales taxes will likely be lower on the goods & services she sells, but we'll see.