Badlands Journal
Social, Economic, and Environmental Justice
They can lock down every big donor and every key endorsement and they can still be beaten, because people still vote — and there is still some democracy left. -- Ryan Grim, The Intercept, June 27, 2018
History of Richard III
http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/views/plays/play_view.php?WorkID=ri...
Act I, Scene 4
London. The Tower.
Reading this article about the rapidly sinking Friant-Kern Canal, built in the late 1940's to replenish the water supply to areas in the eastern San Joaquin Valley where farmers had overdrafted the groundwater, should, among other lessons, explain the consistent lunacy of the two congressmen whose districts straddle the canal, Republican representatives Devin Nunes and Kevin McCarthy. The canal is essential to the largely agricultural economy of the region and to the water supply of a string of farm towns that give Tulare County a charm invisible from SR 99,
The editorial by Knight Foundation CEO and former publisher of the Miami Herald, Alberto Ibarguen, about the slaughter of five newspeople in their newsroom in Annapolis last month, offended me on three levels.
But more needs to be done if we are to adequately prepare for the future, which will require elected officials to get off their hands and help find a path forward. -- Johnny Amaral, Fresno Bee, July 11, 2018
1950s: Communist Control Act of 1954
U.S. Statutes at Large, Public Law 637, Chp. 886, p. 775-780
AN ACT
To outlaw the Communist Party, to prohibit members of Communist organizations from serving in certain representative capacities, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the ''Communist Control Act of 1954''.
Findings of Fact
The State Water Resources Control Board made its priorities clear in announcing its recommendation in early July. The board cherry-picked old statistics to insist the Tuolumne, Merced and Stanislaus fisheries are on the brink of collapse. It pointed out that creeping salinity from San Francisco Bay imperils the Delta. The board insists only more of the water from our rivers can solve both problems.
Scientists debate whether California’s vast forests are emitting more carbon dioxide through fires than they absorb through plant growth. -- David R, Baker, SF Chronicle, Nov. 22, 2017