Author Archives: floegel

Where Have All the Sea Lions Gone?

12/19/1996 – 3:45 pm

Some time between now and January 4th, the National Marine Fisheries Service will list the Steller sea lion as an endangered species. It may strike you as odd that the Fisheries Service would choose the year-end holiday season as a moment to add a member to the endangered species list. So many people – journalists, […]

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Seeing the Forest and the Trees

12/12/1996 – 3:43 pm

If you listen to these comments each week, I’m going to assume you’re a serious consumer of news and if you are, I’m going to assume you heard last week that the federal government is offering Texan Charles Hurwitz $300 million in public assets in exchange for 7,500 acres of old-growth forest in northern California. […]

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Bush League

12/5/1996 – 3:41 pm

Five weeks ago, in this commentary, I speculated George Bush must have nothing to do now that voters have deprived him of the opportunity to send troops off to be poisoned in Iraq. Well, I was wrong and I admit it. It turns out George Bush has plenty to do. It seems our former president […]

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You Can Get Anything You Want

11/28/1996 – 3:40 pm

Today is Thanksgiving and we here at WebActive are celebrating by playing a tape of something recorded a few days ago, because in that fine American tradition, we’re not working on a holiday. This year, we’re celebrating Thanksgiving with the official Thanksgiving song, which many people may think is “over the river and through the […]

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Opera By The Gallon

11/21/1996 – 3:38 pm

I went to the opera a few weeks ago. The local opera company had gotten up a production of Turandot, so I squeezed myself into my cheap suit and spend three hours being thrilled by Puccini. Getting tickets for Turandot was not easy. Many of the performances were sold out and for those that still […]

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Fish or No Fish?

11/14/1996 – 3:36 pm

I’m traveling this week, calling in from Gloucester, Massachusetts. I’m here to talk about fish, or more accurately, the lack of fish. Fish or no fish? Gloucester is a prototypical American fishing community. It’s on Cape Ann, north of Boston. Ethnic neighborhoods of clapboard houses end at the water’s edge, at the wharves, but there […]

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Ambulance at Amchitka

11/7/1996 – 3:35 pm

Last week, Greenpeace announced some of its activists had done something no one has ever done before. They visited a nuclear test site without permission from the country that conducted the tests. That meant no government officials peering over their shoulders, steering them toward this or away from that. The Greenpeace activists visited the Cannikin […]

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