Photos from the 1918 flu pandemic
In Photos of the 1918 Flu Pandemic from the Atlantic, you’ll see pictures of classes and courts being held outside, masked women in groups making masks, soldiers and police with masks, overcrowded...
View ArticleAfghanistan: "The Ides of August," by Sarah Chayes
Sarah Chayes has published a valuable article (8/15/21) about Afghanistan -- The Ides of August. The author of two books, The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban(2007) and...
View ArticlePreventable, by Andy Slavitt: the pandemic in 2020
“We are always four to six weeks from being able to do what countries around the world have done,” wrote Andy Slavitt in a July 2020 article in which he described how a strict lockdown of the U.S....
View ArticleContact Emily Murphy about the transition
If you want to send an email to Emily Murphy about signing a document recognizing Joe Biden as the apparent winner of the election so that he can receive transition funds, office space, and all...
View ArticleNot surrendering to COVID-19
This letter by a local doctor was published in the Fresno BEE on July 17. He says: “the war, the game, is just beginning….the level of loss is a choice, not an inevitability….hand washing, sanitizers,...
View ArticleThe Empire State Building has a message tonight.
xThe @EmpireStateBldg reminding us that the city is in the middle of an emergency. pic.twitter.com/50TjEjOogNâ Rita J. King (@RitaJKing) March 31, 2020
View ArticleThe Ode to Joy
You may want to see this over and over:xThe Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra delivers Beethoven's 'Ode to Joy' with 19 musicians playing their parts from their homes pic.twitter.com/YVLrXN9yh6âÂÂ...
View ArticleMore demonstrations for the climate today: 500,000 in Montreal alone.
Last Friday, the students pictured above were among the millions worldwide striking for the climate. This Friday, Twitter had news of demonstrations in New Zealand, Africa, Italy, Bangladesh, South...
View ArticleFresno BEE recommends Andrew Janz for CA-22
Today, in a hard-hitting editorial on-line For the good of the 22nd District and the nation, the choice is clear: Andrew Janz, the Fresno Bee did something it hasn’t done since before 2002 — it is...
View ArticleWhat attracts the core supporters?
According to Lt. Col Ralph Peters, Trump maintains his hold on his core supporters by assuring them that "Nothing is your fault. I can save you." Speaking on MSNBC with Ari Melber on Friday, August 17,...
View ArticleDevin Nunes and climate change
For years, I’ve written to Devin Nunes about his denial of human caused climate change, but his repeated response has been merely that reasonable people can disagree. At a meeting, when my friend asked...
View ArticleDrought and Devin Nunes
Mark Arax, a resident of Fresno, has written books and articles about water issues in California’s Central Valley. In his article published August 5 in the Fresno BEE, ‘Deep State’ isn’t Nunes’ first...
View Article"California will fight this stupidity in every conceivable way possible."
The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing a 6-year freeze on mileage targets for cars and trucks beginning in 2020. If the freeze takes effect, the current goal of 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025...
View Article"Eighth boy rescued as divers re-enter Thai cave"
According to the Guardian, divers entered Tham Luang Nang Non cave at about 11am local time.the conditions that had triggered Sunday’s operation – declining water levels in the cave, the readiness of...
View ArticleAnti-Nunes letters in the Fresno BEE today
Four anti-Nunes letters were published in the Fresno BEE today. I suspect the BEE will not endorse Nunes in November, contrary to past endorsements. The editorial board called him “Trump’s stooge” in...
View ArticleLincoln's notes to self
Throughout his life as a lawyer, legislator and president, Abraham Lincoln wrote down his thoughts about the issues of the day, not in a notebook or diary but on small pieces of paper or the backs of...
View ArticleDenied again: U.S. govt claim against climate liability lawsuit
In 2015, twenty-one children and youths began their suit against the U.S. government for encouraging the production of fossil fuels, which are damaging the climate they will inherit. The suit survived...
View Article"How Kern County women united to march in deep red Trump country"
Last year, there was no women’s march in Bakersfield, CA (pop: 376,000) in the south Central Valley, and activists went to Los Angeles and San Francisco to protest. This year was different because of a...
View ArticleWho should pay to protect against climate change?
xClimate change is real and it poses a grave threat to our nation and our planet. ItâÂÂs abundantly clear this Adminstration wonâÂÂt tackle climate change head on, so state and local governments...
View Article"Who funded this ad?"
Twitter will clearly label political ads and require campaigns and organizations to disclose who bought the ad and how much they spent.A new "transparency center" will have a database of all ads...
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