Photo Gallery |Urbana & Central play season flag football opener

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Urbana hosted Champaign Central in a historic girls flag football season opener, with the Maroons earning the program’s first win on the road.

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Photo: Sentinel/Clark Brooks

Urbana's Just'Us Jones tries to throw a pass over Central's Juliana Balogh. The Tigers fell in their season opener 30-6 to the visiting Maroons. Jones, a sophomore, completed two passes for 17 yards and carried the ball five times for 41 yards.

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Photo: Sentinel/Clark Brooks

Londyn Grant runs the ball for the Maroons.

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Photo: Sentinel/Clark Brooks

Central's Sarah Donahoe grabs the flag of Tigers' Just'Us Jones during first-half action.

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Photo: Sentinel/Clark Brooks

Tigers' Honor Dillon tries to haul in a pass between Maroons' Shanley Davis and Halle Youse.

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Photo: Sentinel/Clark Brooks

Central junior Molly Kloeppel throws a pass during the first half of the Maroons' first flag football game in school history.

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Photo: Sentinel/Clark Brooks

Urbana's Baylee Russell and Azaiah Braxton celebrate a big play in the second half.

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Photo: Sentinel/Clark Brooks

Just'Us Jones tries to unload a pass before Samara McArthur can get in for the sack.

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Photo: Sentinel/Clark Brooks

Under heavy pressure from the Maroons' defense, Just'Us Jones looks to throw before Kara Ficek and Juliana Balogh close in.

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Photo: Sentinel/Clark Brooks

Urbana's Honor Dillon runs the ball between Central's Rita Grant and Halle Youse in the second half.

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Photo: Sentinel/Clark Brooks

Central junior Haley Helm concentrates on unloading a pass to move the ball downfield.

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Tiger's Honor Dillon leaps past a Central defender in the fourth quarter. Dillon carried 11 times for 117 yards.

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Photo: Sentinel/Clark Brooks

Urbana's Honor Dillon races downfield untouched for a first down on a 37-yard run.

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Central freshman Serenity Moore runs the ball in the fourth quarter.

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Maroon players celebrate the program's first flag football victory after defeating Urbana 30-6.

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Bipartisan experts agree: Climate change poses security and economic risks

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Fifty-eight admirals and generals, along with 3,600 economists, press leaders to confront climate change with urgency and bipartisan resolve.

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by Terry Hansen
      Guest Commentary

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When it comes to climate change, many competing voices can be hard to sort through. But some of the clearest guidance has come from those who know the stakes best.

Fifty-eight former U.S. national security leaders, including 35 admirals and generals, sent a letter on climate change to President Donald Trump during his first term. This extraordinary letter states: “Climate change is real, it is happening now, it is driven by humans, and it is accelerating.” These senior military and national security leaders also assert that “climate change is a direct threat to the national security of the United States,” and that addressing it should be seen “as a threat reduction issue, not a political one.”

Meanwhile, over 3,600 economists, including 28 Nobel Prize-winners and top economic advisers to presidents of both parties, have endorsed a plan to fight climate change. Their “Economists' Statement on Carbon Dividends" advocates putting a consistently rising price on carbon dioxide emissions and returning the money to the American people.

This statement concludes that the price signal will encourage technological innovation and steer our economy toward a low-carbon future. Returning the revenue to households will shield consumers from rising energy prices, and “the majority of families, including the most vulnerable, will benefit financially.” A border carbon adjustment would protect U.S. competitiveness and encourage other nations to adopt their own carbon pricing systems.

When the admirals, generals, and Nobel economists are saying the same thing, the message is simple: act now.

Terry Hansen is a retired educator who writes frequently about climate change. He lives in Milwaukee, WI.

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