Flooded Calgary Flames Arena Shows NHL Needs Climate Adaptation Plan

I'm currently writing about hockey, soccer and other sports at the popular website Rant Sports. Click here for my recent story on the how the National Hockey League needs a climate adaptation plan following the flooding of the Calgary Flames' home arena.

Photos: New NYC Bike Sharing Stations!

This Monday the nation's largest city launches the nation's biggest bike sharing program. New York City has been gearing up for the opening of Citi Bike for months and I happened to be in the Big Apple a few weeks ago shortly after the city started installing their bike station infrastructure and before the bikes were docked.

Here are some photos from the Bowling Green-Financial District and West Thames Street-Battery Park City bike sharing stations.

Photos and Video: Gun Safety Vigil in Vienna, Virginia

Pictures and video from a community vigil in Vienna, Virginia just outside Washington, D.C. to remember the Newtown and other gun violence victims and for Congress to pass stronger gun laws. The gathering took place only days before the U.S. Senate shamefully voted down common sense gun reform.

The candlelight vigil was called "We Have Not Forgotten" and was an Organizing for Action event. OFA is President Obama's grassroots mobilization to help pass his second term agenda.

Photos and Video: K Street 5K To Get Money Out of Politics

Big money lobbyists had some unwelcome company on K Street this past April 13th as hundreds of demonstrators dressed in hundred dollar bills marched down "Influence Alley" to protest money in politics and advocate for anti-corruption reforms in Congress.

Check out photos and video from the "K Street 5K," which was organized by United Republic's Represent.Us campaign.

5 Infrastructure Gains Under President Obama

President Obama didn’t have to read the American Society of Civil Engineers‘ (ASCE) new report card on the nation’s infrastructure to understand why America was given a near failing grade yet again. All he had to to do was ride in the presidential limousine on Washington, DC’s bumpy roads, of which 99 percent are poor or mediocre quality, and then cross one of the capital’s 30 structurally deficient bridges.

Click here to read my full story on The National Memo.

Is Sarah Palin Jealous of Electric Car Maker Tesla’s Success?

Why is failed vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin attacking a winner like zero emissions electric car maker Tesla Motors?

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Exxon Oil Spill In Arkansas Raises Concerns About Keystone XL Pipeline

Environmentalists and Nebraska farmers are upping the pressure on President Obama to reject the controversial Keystone XL pipeline following an oil spill that took place over the weekend.

The rupture occurred in central Arkansas, about 20 miles north of Little Rock, as Exxon’s Pegasus pipeline spilled thousands of barrels of Canadian tar sands oil — the same Alberta crude the Keystone pipeline would carry. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is calling it a “major spill” as officials from the EPA and Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) are currently conducting an onsite investigation while ExxonMobil continues its cleanup efforts.

Click here to read the rest of the story at The National Memo.