It's been a busy week with lots of things to do and work hasn't helped with some unexpected things at the road office, but things are slowing down a bit.
The inbox cleaning starts with a problem with something dirty-Water.
I know most Americans don't think about water problems often and if they do it's about other country's problems or maybe the issue in Flint, Michigan where the answer to saving some money was to ruin the water supply and make their citizens sick.
The situation is far worse than that and many of those affected are right here in America.
This piece from Time magazine through the Pulitzer Center is just shocking in what people in rural communities have to go through to get clean water and how people live in places that cannot have.
It's ridiculous that we have Americans in this country living in this manner and spare me the 'bootstrap" comments, please.
If anyone on the political spectrum had their entire access to clean water be so limited by the location in which they live, they'd be screaming about it as well.
It's not about left or right- it's about people in this country not having to live like third world residents.
It's sad, sickening and downright terrible.
I stumbled on this article from the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) from last year that celebrated the then 50-year-old anniversary of the shutting down of the American Falls portion of Niagara Falls.
In 1969, there was concern that the American Falls were endangered by rock erosion, so the Army Corps of Engineers built a temporary dam to divert the Niagara River to the Canadian side of the falls to inspect the rock face for potential problems.
Slate goes into more detail on the project, what it found, and what was done to shore things up a bit without major reconstruction.
I had known about the drying out of the Falls but had never read about it in detail before and found it quite interesting.
Charlie Sykes of The Bulwark writes this for Politico about the similarities of the upcoming Presidential election to that of the 1972 version with Richard Nixon steamrolling George McGovern.
There are parallels, especially should Bernie Sanders earn the Democratic nomination and they make me think of one "What if" question that I place in my top ten of Presidential questions- What would have happened had Edmund Muskie won the nomination instead of George McGovern to face Richard Nixon?
Nixon was a generally unpopular President that instead of facing an opponent that was more palatable to the mainstream, would face an extreme candidate with more limited appeal and won big.
That just might be the result of a Donald Trump-Bernie Sanders race.
In one of the better stories in sports, the Carolina Hurricanes were forced into using the emergency goalie in a recent game in Toronto and managed to win the game.
The emergency goalie is in place for a situation when both (or occasionally three) goalies would be unable to play and the ailing team would not be forced to play a skater out of position and with ill-fitting equipment.
42-year-old David Ayres, who is the Zamboni driver for the AHL Toronto Marlies and practice goalie for the Marlies and Maple Leafs, entered the game in the second period after starter James Reimer was injured in the first period and backup Petr Mrazek left in the second after a collision with a Toronto player.
Ayres entered the game with Carolina leading 3-1 and would make eight of ten saves as the Hurricanes notched a 6-3 win.
Ayres was named the star of the game in a very classy move, received five hundred dollars for his pay and was allowed to keep his game-used jersey after the victory.
And it wouldn't be the NHL if they didn't find a way to find something bad out of something good as the league will discuss potential changes to the emergency goalie rule at the general managers' meetings this week in Florida.
It never ceases to amaze me just how many times sports entities manage to screw up what should be what's good about sports.
Wrapping up with Stan Fischler, who writes of the impact of the 1980 "Miracle on Ice" on the New Jersey Devils.
Three players from the 1980 gold medalists would play for the Devils- Mark Johnson, Jack O'Callahan, and Neal Broten, with Broten playing a key role with the 1994-95 Devils, who would be the first of the three Stanley Cup winners for the Devils.
Two various owners of the Colorado Rockies were enticed by the Miracle to bring hockey to New Jersey with the attendance-challenged Rockies a good selection to make the move to the Meadowlands.
Fischler looks at this part of the move as a portion of his weekly columns on the history of the franchise.
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