Elayne Clift

1 month ago | timesargus.com | Elayne Clift

Imagine this: A historic hurricane barrels towards Florida’s Gulf Coast, or massive fires move quickly through California, or a giant tornado tears through the Midwest. But there is no way to know these disasters are coming because the Trump administration has fired hundreds of workers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the agency that tracks and monitors weather events that threaten massive numbers of people who live in susceptible areas.

1 month ago | medium.com | Elayne Clift

Some time ago I wrote a piece about my fear of flying. It was after reading Erica Jong’s 1973 novel Fear of Flying, which had nothing to do with flying. But it had a bit in it about her own fear of flying that captured my anxiety. Her description of trembling on takeoff mirrored mine. Whenever I think about boarding a hunk of silver metal that weighs more than a large beluga whale that’s about to hurtle across the hopefully vacant sky, “my fingers (and toes) turn to ice,” she wrote.

2 months ago | rutlandherald.com | Elayne Clift

The demise of education is a looming catastrophe. It’s happening slowly but the consequences will be stunning. From pre-school, to elementary and high school, to higher education, we stand to lose generations of youth and emerging adults who will have been denied their right to accessible, quality education that fosters critical thinking, higher learning and skills that will allow them to be valuable members of society no matter what they choose to undertake as adults in the workforce.

2 months ago | vtcng.com | Elayne Clift

It’s happening slowly, but the consequences will be stunning. From pre-school to elementary and high school to higher education, we stand to lose generations of youth and emerging adults who will have been denied their right to accessible, quality education that fosters critical thinking, higher learning and skills that will allow them to be valuable members of society no matter what they choose to undertake as adults in the workforce.

2 months ago | rutlandherald.com | Elayne Clift

In his final week in office, President Biden signed important legislation that would allow a monument dedicated to American women to be placed on the National Mall. It would honor women’s suffragists who, after 70 years of trying, would finally be recognized for what they achieved in 1920 — the right to vote. The Women’s Suffrage National Monument was approved on the eve of Donald Trump’s second term.