I’ve had water dreams lately, often tasting the lake water where I spent my childhood, feeling the silken rush of water skinny dipping in the moonlight, diving from the rocks into the cold depths of our spring fed lake. I remember in my dreams how sweet the...
Our government has boldly stepped forward in their recent guidelines and told us what we all know. The answer to obesity is to eat less, less sodium, and more fruits and vegetables instead. But as Mark Bittman points out in A Food Manifesto for the Future, that...
The big award lists have come out naming 2010 Women of the Year. Some surprises head the list: Lady Gaga, Sarah Palin (sigh), and Fergie. Fergie, for heaven’s sake? On a more serious side, look up Female Heads of State: Women of the Year issued by Glamour...
Kern County’s Public Health Services Department announced January 18, 2010 that it will immediately begin enforcement of the voter approved “anti-sludge ordinance”. Sludge means spreading biosolids (treated solid, semi-solid or liquid residue generated...
Those of us who attend the grassroots meetings, make the phone calls, and fill the officer slots often look around and realize, hey, it’s mostly women. Mostly older women.d Party politics is like this too. Realize that, of course, I acknowledge the impressive...
Is it any wonder the animal community is driven to despair and disgust? Any Kern County resident who has not recently returned from Jupiter knows the kill rate in Kern County Animal shelters is barbaric. Kern County is the 15th most economically stressed county in the...
According to critics, using the Endangered Species Act to protect this little silver fish has caused a dust bowl in California’s Central Valley and the loss of tens of thousands of jobs. Even an accused environmental radical like me can’t imagine throwing...
Ever since Reagan, that’s what we’ve been coached to think. Out there in TV’s FrenzyLand government is always the problem. A corollary is that money thrown at a problem doesn’t work. Think about all the problems that are solved by money....
