Elayne Clift

3 weeks ago | rutlandherald.com | Elayne Clift

Lately, I’ve been worried about some new steps the Trump administration has in mind. There’s the gigantic Trojan horse airplane the president is excited about. And the threat of millions of Americans losing Medicaid coverage as lawmakers consider changing the health care insurance program that benefits more than 70 million people nationwide, according to a Newsweek Report.

2 months ago | rutlandherald.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.

2 months 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.

2 months 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.