Mining proponents still try to sell bad idea

One of my favorite quotes comes from the late Milwaukee Braves slugger Joe Adcock, who observed of his teammate Henry Aaron: “Trying to sneak a fastball by Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak a sunrise by a rooster.”That line reminds me of the current effort by a group of politicians, bureaucrats, timber barons, tone-deaf mining entities, and deep-pocketed special interest groups who ...