Main Street Consultants

09/26/2025

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/us/politics/national-parks-open-government-shutdown.html?campaign_id=56&emc=edit_cn_20250926&instance_id=163335&nl=on-politics®i_id=158482974&segment_id=206691&user_id=804ac96b687037efb760a3927dcf501a

More than 35 former park superintendents wrote a letter to the Trump administration, saying the lands could be damaged under limited staffing.

07/22/2025

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/07/22/trump-withdraws-us-unesco/85320316007/?utm_source=usatoday-onpolitics-strada&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=baselinegreeting&utm_term=newsletter-greeting&utm_content=usat-8872UT-nletter18

One of the United Nations' UNESCO program missions is the World Heritage program, which protects historic and cultural sites.

05/11/2025

https://wapo.st/3RUQlLE

Judges in several states say they have faced threats and intimidation tactics associated with pizza deliveries.

05/11/2025

The hidden ways Trump, DOGE are shutting down parts of the U.S. government

Limits on spending have incapacitated parts of agencies as varied as the National Park Service and the Pentagon.

05/10/2025

https://www.propublica.org/article/noaa-michigan-lab-toxic-algae-blooms-great-lakes-drinking-water?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1746884228&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwY2xjawKMaGBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHrXg9Ql_y1unWKELx3z6zx_tHyYnXo1kBi9d0gNj4N3qNnjiJrs3Doo_G4Ye_aem_jxkJuqug9K2mNj40FudBqg

The Trump administration’s slashing of budgets and staff have Great Lakes scientists concerned that they have lost the ability to protect the public from toxic algal blooms, which can kill animals and sicken people.

05/10/2025

https://action.everylibrary.org/emailhayden

President Trump has crossed another dangerous line by abruptly firing Dr. Carla Hayden, the Librarian of Congress.

05/10/2025

https://bit.ly/4423idT

05/10/2025

https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-congress-hands-off-our-public-lands?source=direct_link&referrer=group-localyst&redirect=https://secure.actblue.com/donate/sh-liheap-localyst&link_id=0&can_id=53f440166bef8229dfd8869e621b1eb6&email_referrer=email_2730249&&&email_subject=selling-public-lands-to-oil-companies&refcodeEmailReferrer=email_2730249

Send a letter to your members of Congress now demanding they oppose all public land sell-off proposals and protect our public lands — forever.

05/10/2025

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/us/politics/holocaust-museum-trump-biden-firings.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

Board members argued over email after a Biden appointee sent a scathing letter invoking the Holocaust as he denounced the museum’s silence on President Trump’s firings of board members.

05/10/2025

https://waysandmeans.house.gov/event/full-committee-markup-of-legislative-proposals-to-comply-with-the-reconciliation-directive-included-in-section-2001-of-the-concurrent-resolution-on-the-budget-for-fiscal-year-2025-h-con-res-14/

Legislative proposals to comply with the reconciliation directive included in section 2001 of the Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2025, H. Con. Res. 14.

04/23/2025

https://gearjunkie.com/outdoor/doge-takes-over-national-park-service

DOGE now has 'free rein' over NPS and BLM forest management, wildfire preparation, financial management, training, and more.

04/23/2025

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/23/whitney-plantation-museum-trump-funding

Whitney Plantation has two grants for Black history and culture terminated in ‘furtherance of president’s agenda’