Eric Jones at one of his meet and greets held accross District 4 At this critical time, as we confront the destruction of our democratic institutions and equal representation under the law, we have a choice to make while we can still vote. In this year’s District CA-4 Congressional primary election…
Tuesday’s North Carolina 4th District Congressional March 3rd is the most important race of 2026 for progressive voters. Nida Allam, a Durham County Commissioner, is the progressive Democrat challenger, and Valerie Foushee is the conservative Democrat who beat Allam in 2024 using $2 million in AIPAC dollars to do it.
(Sung to the tune of Rosie O’Donnell’s album holiday hit “Have a Rosie Christmas“ (Donna Summer’s lyrics). Click on title to get the song on YouTube It’s a stretch. Perhaps Rosie O’Donnell, the abrasive and enduring talented comedian/artist, is just too far off most people’s radar. But her Christmas album was a…
Food pantries like this one in Chicago could see a spike in visits as tens of thousands of Cook County residents are at risk of losing food stamps. Alyssa Schukar for the Greater Chicago Food Depository, Time.com The 20 year wars in Iraq and Afghanistan cost us $21 trillion.
Bill Gates would tell you we are in danger of living an impoverished life. The idea that we would have to give up our fossil fuel funding credit cards, it’s just a bridge too far. Isn’t it? It turns out that if you want to get your cash rewards, and stop…
Book Review “Brown Church”Robert Chao Romero, Inter Varsity Press, 20202023-03-03 – Reviewer, Scott StewardIn human years, I’ve interacted and thought a long time about what it is to be Christian, and what Christianity represents in people’s lives. Brown Church includes an expansive review of the origins of what I think…
How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World. Russell Gold, Senior Energy Reporter, The Wall Street Journal. 2014, 311 pages The Boom covers the history that led up to the powerful resurgence of the fossil fuel industry that made the three decades, previous to 2009, of peak…
Review of: “Is Sucking Carbon Out of the Air the Soution to Our Climate Crises, Or just another Big Oil boondoggle?” Mother Jones November December, by Clive Thompson, illustrations by Keith Negley It’s not arbitrary that the benign phrase “catch and release” has been found on the lips of…
Review of the Yolo County Sustainability (Draft) Plan – by Scott Steward The draft Yolo County Sustainability plan was just distributed. Is the draft Yolo County Sustainability Plan perfect, no one would make that claim, but I have gratitude for at least having a 15 page county level Sustainability Plan. It’s…
Cities acrosss the country pay 10’s of millions of dollars to fix its streets bridges, and bike paths, infrastructure which will continue to be necessary to our city long into the future. In California, banks and financial institutions that move money for state infrastructure investments collect $7.7 billion dollars a year for servicing…