By Christina Lords | Editor-in-Chief
“I remind people that livestock losses to wolves are less than one-tenth of 1% for cattle and sheep. I would think tariffs, the cost of gasoline and diesel and the lack of access to fertilizer and things like that should be way higher up the list of concerns for ranchers and farmers than wolves.” - Carter Niemeyer, a former government trapper turned wolf advocate
A gray wolf in snow. (Photo courtesy of Eric Cole/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
ENVIRONMENT
Trump gives feds 90 days to consider removing endangered species protections for wolves
By Clark Corbin
The executive order calls for Secretary of Interior Doug Burgum to decide within 90 days whether gray wolves and Mexican wolves have met their recovery criteria and to begin the process of delisting or downlisting them.
Patrons use free Wi-Fi at a public library in Chicago. For nearly 30 years, the E-Rate program has helped connect schools and libraries to the internet, but the Trump administration is reviewing the program. (Photo Robbie Sequeira/Stateline)
EDUCATION
Schools, libraries sound alarm over potential changes to federal internet program
By Robbie Sequeira
A multi-billion-dollar federal program that helps schools and libraries afford broadband internet is under review by the Trump administration, leaving education officials and advocates worried about potentially significant cuts.
The E-Rate program provides about $3 billion annually for internet access and telecommunications to more than 100,000 schools and 11,000 libraries across the country. It is the fifth-largest stream of federal funding for schools nationwide, according to the Schools Superintendents Association (AASA).
An Alaska Airlines jet lands at Newark Liberty International Airport. (Photo by Dana DiFilippo/New Jersey Monitor)
COMMENTARY
Why Idaho needs more women like me in the cockpit
By Sarah Cortez
At Girls in Aviation Day in Boise, I want as many people as possible, especially girls who may assume a cockpit isn’t for them, to see what’s possible, writes guest columnist Sarah Cortez.
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