Rudi Kiefer: We can take steps to address climate change

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Rudi Kiefer: We can take steps to address climate change

Rudi Kiefer

Updated: Apr 8, 2018, 2:40 AM

Published: Apr 8, 2018, 2:41 AM

Ask someone in Ebenezer, Mississippi, if they’re worried about an increase in storm frequency as the climate is changing. The answer will probably be the same for residents of Natchitoches, Louisiana. Severe storms pounded the central southern states during the last days of March, leaving homes and parking garages flooded and some houses totally destroyed.

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Column: The ‘good ol’ days’ are long gone

Ronda Rich

For The Times

Published: Mar 25, 2025, 11:09 PM

Back in the 1990s, when the fashions were terrible and no one could find the right hairstyle, I was having a long conversation with an old friend. We talked of our days in racing when engines blew up — or “blowed up” as the country boys said — and of the “make believe” debris that would supposedly bring out a caution flag, which tightened the field of cars and kept the race competitive.

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