Re: “Cold Cotton Bowl of 1979,” by Cynthia R. Gudgel, Thursday Letters. As a septuagenarian and lifelong Dallasite, I could not help but smile as I read Gudgel’s recollection of that frigid New Year’s ...

On A hot Saturday in 1979, while mowing the lawn at my family home in Washington, my wife Tricia called me to the landline.

While residents were moved from Niagara Falls’ Love Canal neighborhood when President Jimmy Carter declared a state of emergency in 1978, a year later, the question of remediation remained. The ...