Cokie and Steven Roberts: Shifting views on climate change | Battle Creek Enquirer
At the front lines in the climate change war, there’s no argument about whether weather disasters come more frequently and ferociously.Cokie Roberts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
...The little Hmong children in the mountains of Vietnam know that more is needed. They can tell visiting Americans what happens when too many trees are cut or when a manufacturer spews pollution, and they’re educating their parents as well.
Too bad those kids can’t come here. Maybe they could educate our politicians to take action on the home front about a situation threatening us all.
Cokie Roberts is the third child and youngest daughter of former ambassador and long-time Democratic Congresswoman from Louisiana Lindy Boggs and of the late Hale Boggs, also a Democratic Congressman from Louisiana who was Majority Leader of the House of Representatives. Her sister, the late Barbara Boggs Sigmund, was mayor of Princeton, New Jersey and a candidate for U.S. Senate from New Jersey. Her brother Tommy Boggs is a prominent Washington, D.C. attorney and lobbyist.
Roberts attended ... Wellesley College in 1964 where she received a BA in Political Science.
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