Links to Coverage of the July 17, 2014 Malaysia Airlines Catastrophe in Ukraine

Below are links to various sources of coverage of today's aircraft disaster in Ukraine:

CNN Coverage   NBC Coverage  BBC Coverage  CBS Coverage ABC Coverage

New York Times Coverage  The Guardian Coverage Time Coverage

More from The Guardian Le Monde Coverage

From New Year's Day Through the World Cup Final, Here's a Chronicle of 2014

Linked below is a running chronicle of calendar year 2014.  One the day of this post, it covers January 1, 2014 through July 13, 2013. In the coming days, I will update the record of this year as events dictate.

I will be using this record of 2014 in the high school courses that I teach.

A Chronicle of 2014

Marijuana Sales for Recreational Use Now Legal in the State of Washington

State of Washington

July 8, 2014 will be remembered as a milestone date stemming from the results of Election Day, November 6, 2012.

One the same day that the American electorate awarded President Barack Obama with a second term, voters in the state of Washington approved a referendum allowing for the legal sales of recreational marijuana for the northwestern state.

Nearly two years later---Tuesday, July 8, 2014---legal recreational marijuana sales began in Washington.

AP: Legal Marijuana Sales for Recreational Use Begin in State of Washington

Seattle Times: November 6, 2012 Article on Voter Approval of the Marijuana Referendum

Seattle Times: Post Sales Legal in Washington, July 8, 2014

Seattle Times: Seattle Has its First Legal Recreational Weed Sales

Salon Writers: Pessimism on the Week of the 2014 Fourth of July

Salon's Jim Sleeper: The United States Crumbling Apart

Salon's Andrew O'Hehir: Lincoln, Obama, and is our Nation Failing?

Salon's Paul Rosenberg: The Religious Right and Neo-Confederates