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 on June 2nd (early voting starts on Monday, May 4th), we can…
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’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 classic in our house, particularly the very un-PC “Merry Christmas from the Family.” The tie-in – O’Donnell, if she is anything, is rebellious, and “Have…
The 20 year wars in Iraq and Afghanistan cost us $21 trillion. Whatever we’ve been doing in the middle east, now Ukraine, and around the world has cost us trillions. Why are we not looking at ending sixty years of human and monetary damage caused…
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…
Book Review “Brown Church”Robert Chao Romero, Inter Varsity Press, 20202023-03-03 – Reviewer, Scott Steward In 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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…