Twitter Rundown for Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Western Wildfires Prompt Evacuations, State of Emergency
Additional firefighters are being brought in today to fight the Waldo Canyon fire that has forced mandatory evacuations of 32,000 residents in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Sisters Spread Their Message Via ‘Nuns On The Bus’ Tour
A number of progressive nuns are taking their message on the road, with a nine-state bus tour aimed at warning against a House Republican budget authored by Congressman Paul Ryan.
Why Lyme Disease Vaccine Isn’t Available To People
Thousands suffer from tick-borne Lyme Disease each year. But there is a vaccine against the illness — it’s just not given to people, as Here and Now’s Curt Nickisch reports.
Runner Amby Burfoot Puts Olympic Trial Drama In Context
With the start of the summer Olympics a month from today, Runner’s World editor-at-large Amby Burfoot joins us to look at the team selection process in track and field.
Drug War Overshadows Mexican Presidential Campaign
Voters in Mexico will select a new president on Sunday, but the drug-related violence that has claimed thousands of lives in the last six years continues.
Kelly Frey, the editor of Oklahoma’s big daily newspaper The Oklahoman, is from El Reno, Okla. and describes what it’s like to grow up in “tornado alley.”
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Are home-based shelters really enough to hold back an F5 category tornado, which can have winds upwards of 300 miles per hour? And what about people who don’t have home-based shelters?
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