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The Daily Bucket: Saving the Redwoods #3; We Knocked off a Gas Station.

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An Oregon developer of a proposed gas station next to a creek and wetlands has withdrawn his application. In short:  Victory! Withdrawn App, how sweet the sound, Saving trees … thirty feet around. They were doomed on this place, but now are saved, thanks to Grace. The nearby neighborhoods’ coveys...

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  • September 4, 2020
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Save the Redwoods, Part II: When Billy Heron helped unite a community

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It’s especially hard to organize folks these days. You can’t call a meeting.   It’s tough to talk and listen with masks on. Yet suburban folks west of Portland Oregon are organizing against a  developer’s plans to build a Chevron gas station/mini-mart adjacent to wetlands, big trees, and a Park Greenway....

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  • August 2, 2020
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Steve Schmidt's most effective takedown of Donald Trump to date

Steve Schmidt is a regular critic of the president. But today he strung an all-encompassing narrative that highlights his incompetence and danger. Steve Schmidt did not hold back Watch the entire episodes here. Steve Schmidt once again appeared on the 11th Hour with Brian Williams. I listen to two or three channels...

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  • May 6, 2020
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Things really important to me

First an apology. My post yesterday on my decision to vote for Warren (which I did at about 9:45 AM) and to contribute to her campaign ($100 online) was my first posting here in more than a month. Some may remember that in mid-November I suffered a stroke, later had...

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  • February 23, 2020
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Brand That Nickname of “Grim Reaper” To Moscow Mitch Too.

<I know I took a break from blogging, but there is a critical life threatening intersection between gun violence, racism, and Republican politics that compelled me to get off the sidelines for now.> I am no communication expert, but the recent tragic mass shootings in El Paso, TX and Dayton,...

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  • August 4, 2019
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American woman's viral Twitter thread exposes the 'nightmare' of European-style socialized medicine

Oh, did I say nightmare? I meant the opposite of that. People who oppose adopting universal health care in the U.S. generally say that we have the greatest health care system in the world. We don’t, of course, and it’s not even close. I don’t know where this habit of...

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  • June 6, 2019
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Why I have not been blogging

in case anyone cares. There are a variety of reasons. Let’s start with the more mundane, or rather, those involved with my personal life. This has been a very difficult school year, for a lot of reasons.  Perhaps when I note that I have been assaulted by students 3 times...

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  • April 13, 2019
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SCOTUS Blog's Tom Goldstein's Motion to Install Rosenstein as AG. “This is a constitutional crisis.”

(Thomas C. Goldstein, known as simply Tom Goldstein, is an American attorney known for his advocacy before and blogging about the Supreme Court. Over the past fifteen years, Goldstein has served as one of the lawyers for one of the parties in just under 10% of the cases argued before the Supreme...

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  • November 29, 2018
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A true social justice warrior has passed. Godspeed, Tony Trupiano.

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Yesterday morning I got a text from my friend Stephanie White that said, simply, “Sad news about Tony.” I hadn’t heard any news but I knew which “Tony” she meant. I know several Tonys but THE Tony is and has always been Tony Trupiano. I went to Facebook and quickly...

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  • April 10, 2018
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