Theodore Roosevelt said the national parks were the greatest gift this country ever gave itself, and the greatest idea we ever gave the world.
More than 100 nations copied it.
Donald Trump looks at that gift and sees a piggy bank for his own pet projects.
This week we learned where our national park money has been going. Not to Yellowstone. Not to Yosemite. To the walkway outside his office, where Trump ripped out American flagstone and laid down Italian granite at a cost of $689,000 to taxpayers. He said he paid for it himself.
That was a lie.
To cover his vanity projects, they are robbing the parks. Spending on parks outside Washington is down $854 million. More than 900 projects went unfunded. They even pulled money from a guardrail on a Colorado cliff that the Park Service flagged as a safety hazard.
I serve on Appropriations.
The power to spend belongs to Congress, not to a king redecorating his palace. These parks are not Trump’s to loot.
They belong to all of us, and I will fight for every dollar.
In 2003, Trent Vogelhuber was on the Nationwide Arena ice as the team debuted its new third jerseys. In 2007, he was drafted by the #CBJ in his hometown. Now he's an assistant coach for the Jackets. What a hockey life in Columbus.
(Credit to The Dispatch for the 2003 photo)
give the roster of the usa olympic team its own team that plays in the ECHL in a town in florida so obscure that nobody knows where the arena is located
With their wins over Sweden and Senegal, the French national team has as many wins at MetLife Stadium in the World Cup as the New York Jets did in the 2025 NFL season
• Game finished after midnight ET
• On the West Coast
• On an unexpected lead change at the end of the game
• In a game that ultimately had no impact on the fate of either team
Heck of a way to welcome back #Pac12AfterDark after 2 years off!