Letters: May 24, 2018

Hiding science?

Our federal government's war on science took another step after the president made a decision to cut the budget of NOAA. This agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, is an American scientific agency within the United States Department of Commerce that focuses on the conditions of the oceans and the atmosphere. I am one of Whitman County's volunteer weather watchers. I am also a member of the Palouse Citizens' Climate Lobby.

All of us know how excellent weather forecasting has become, thanks to NOAA. Way back when I was a kid in Montana, the newspaper and ra...