Folks at U.S. Army Corps of Engineers headquarters in Washington, D.C., held a retirement ceremony for Suzanne M. Fournier recently. She retires at the end of May. She has been the chief of public affairs there for three years, through a period of challenge and controversy that has seen the Corps supporting troops in two wars, fighting floods, searching its soul after Hurricane Katrina and building billions of dollars worth of flood defenses after the calamity along the Gulf Coast and in New Orleans. Fournier is concluding a 24-year career. That number should stop you—24 years.  

Suzanne M. Fournier will retire at the end of May from her post as chief of public affairs for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. She is concluding a 24-year career. That number should stop you—24 years

Let's be conservative and honest in defining renewable energy as we make the transition to a carbon-free electricity industry.

Recently the Congressional Joint Economic Committee announced that the hidden cost of the Liar's War in Iraq (and to a much smaller degree the war in Afghanistan) would top $1.6 trillion, at least until 2008. Coincidently, the American Society of Civil Engineers