Posts by geogadmin

Strong rainfall could help drought-plagued Santa Barbara County and the rest of Southern California, UCSB and NOAA experts say. In a Noozhawk article published on July 22 titled “El Niño Could Bring Winter Storms and Much Needed Rain,” Staff Writer Lara Cooper goes on to elaborate: Weather experts say that an El Niño condition forming in equatorial waters could mean significant rain for the parched Southern...

The following TaxFoundation.org article with the title above was posted by Alan Cole and Scott Drenkard on July 8, 2015: This week’s map shows the real value of $100 in each state. Prices for the same goods are often much cheaper in states like Missouri or Ohio than they are in states like New York or California. As a result, the same amount of cash can buy you comparatively more in a low-price state than in a high-price state....

The following Whitehouse.gov article was written by Scott Kelly, a NASA astronaut currently spending a year on the International Space Station, and posted on July 20, 2015 with the title above: No one on this planet had ever seen a whole picture of the Earth until 1972. We knew we lived on it, and had a vast amount of useful information about its makeup, its processes, and its place in the solar system. At the time, some of the most...