15 Questions for Clinton and Trump. You Choose.
In 15 Questions for Clinton and Trump. You Choose, the editorial board of the New York Times asks readers to choose three questions it should ask both Clinton and Trump. As it says, “In a campaign...
View ArticleVoting for/against the 17 California ballot measures
While studying my vote-by-mail California ballot recently, I tried to understand the 17 measures confronting the voters this year. In addition to the material sent by the state, I sought advice from...
View ArticleIn 2009 Trump backed urgent action on climate change
Seven years ago Donald Trump signed an advertisement in the New York Times urging action on climate legislation, but today he wants the U.S. to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accords. A June 2016...
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How to make a RESIST tag
Inspired by the banner hoisted near the White House by Greenpeace on January 17, a friend made RESIST tags for twenty of us to wear at a health care rally last week in Bakersfield, CA. The tag drew a...
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A town hall minus Congressman Nunes
Today in front of Devin Nunes’ district office in Clovis, CA, approximately 250 frustrated constituents of the chair of the House Intelligence Committee held a mock town hall to share their concerns...
View Article"Nunes is in way over his head"
Devin Nunes (R-CA), the Chair of the House Intelligence Committee, has often been in the news because of his opposition to investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election. Readers not...
View ArticleFresno BEE: "Nunes is to blame"
The Fresno BEE editorial today (3/26) is titled: Russia-Trump probe is in chaos, and Nunes is to blame. It begins:By our yardstick, Rep. Devin Nunes had a terrible week fulfilling his duties as...
View ArticleCatching and prosecuting Russian hackers
U.S. sweeping up Russian hackers in a broad global dragnet, a McClatchy article by Tim Johnson, is dated March 31 and was featured in the Fresno Bee on Sunday, April 2. It begins:The arrests caught the...
View Article"‘We’re scared’: Sea-level rise prompts Senate hearing in West Palm Beach"
On April 10 in West Palm Beach, the ranking member of the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee, Bill Nelson, chaired a hearing on sea level rise and extreme weather. More than 200 people attended the...
View Article"Frost fairs, sunspots and the Little Ice Age"
Climate change deniers often say the climate is always changing and there’s nothing we can do about it. To support their view, they point to the so-called Little Ice Age, a generally cooler period...
View ArticleFresno Bee: "Undisciplined Trump is a danger"
In the Central Valley of California, the Fresno BEE has had enough. Undisciplined Trump is a danger to America, allies, today’s editorial, says Trump’s “amateurish forays into foreign policy and...
View Article"Rep. Devin Nunes stricken by political amnesia. Here's proof."
“Rep. Devin Nunes stricken by political amnesia. Here’s proof.”heads the Fresno BEE’s front page today. The editor, Bill McEwen, begins:I wonder if the secret health-care bill Mitch McConnell is...
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...
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"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 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 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 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 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 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...
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