The familiar roar of gas-powered leaf blowers is turning into a political fault line, as cities and states move to restrict ...

This is particularly disconcerting if one cares to appreciate the role whistle-blowers play in exposing graft in this country. Our country is currently a scene of multiple inquiries to hold to account ...

MANY TOPICS divide Americans: illegal immigration, abortion, the rights of transgender people. And then there are leaf blowers. In recent years dozens of municipalities have enacted ordinances ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. It could be mistaken for a sci-fi movie prop but is designed to blow away debris and snow with a 120mph gust.

Gas-powered leaf blowers will soon be no more in one township in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Lower Merion Township commissioners voted to pass an ordinance banning the devices during a meeting ...

Narrated by frequent Burns collaborator Peter Coyote, “The American Revolution” starts well before that fateful July day in 1776 when the Second Continental Congress formally adopted the Declaration ...

As America's 250th birthday approaches (with the grim reaper looming large), the distinguished documentarian's 12-hour series on our country's first — and, he argues, ongoing — revolution aims to ...

"Washington Crossing the Delaware" painting by Emanuel Leutze, 1851. (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) “From a small spark kindled in America, a flame has arisen. Not to be extinguished.” Cultural ...

Directed by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein and David P. Schmidt, the six-part series premieres on Sunday, Nov. 16. By Rudie Obias If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link ...

Throughout his career, Burns has developed and perfected the tricks of his particular trade: the evocative use of music and quotations from speeches and correspondence; the use of actors to read the ...

A leaf blower may be a simple enough tool, but its powerful gas engine or electric motor and moving parts can create a lot of wear and tear over time. But if you keep up with a simple regimen of basic ...

If those fall leaves are stacking up and causing more hassle than you really need, this deal on the Milwaukee M18 FUEL Leaf Blower at Home Depot will come as a major lifesaver. This is a hefty $239 ...