blaze, here is an article I hope you can view in the NYT this morning.
It is a bit tainted (enviro) but overall a reasonable discussion of the issues.
In PA we claim to have met the agricultural run off reduction goals---but I'm not convinced that is the case.
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis