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THE DOCTOR IS IN - The time really MUST sooner or later arrive when we can speak truth to power...and I don't mean those who think that fossil fuels will be our only way out of the stone age for the indefinite future.

GUEST COMMENTARY - In a world haunted by the specter of nuclear war, needlessly aggressive competition among nations could lead to an apocalyptic catastrophe.

THE VIEW FROM HERE - During the debate on September 21, 2022, Sheriff Alex Villanueva showed that he is out of step with Los Angeles.

ACCORDING TO LIZ - “The problem is not how many dollars remain underground if fracking is banned, but how many lives are lost above ground, if it isn’t.” 

GUEST COMMENTARY - The story of Ron DeathSantis' latest sadistic, showboating, puerile, deeply inhumane bit of anti-immigration political theater -

COURT RULES - Citing a recent court ruling, a government watchdog group on Wednesday urged members of Congress to remove and bar from office anyone "who betrayed their constitutional oaths by engaging in the January 6 insurrection."

GUEST COMMENTARY - In a mid-term election year, where the fate of House of Representatives is in the balance, nearly all attention, energy, and resources are consumed upon congressional races.

GUEST COMMENTARY - It hasn’t been a month since President Biden mounted the steps of Philadelphia’s Independence Hall, declaring it his duty to ensure each of us understands the central faction of his political opposition are extremists that “threaten the very foundations of our Republic.”

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH - I was glad to see Ezra Klein's piece today touting the Biden administration's creation of ARPA-H.

RAIL STRIKE - President Joe Biden took a victory lap on Thursday after his administration helped broker a deal to stave off what would have been the first national freight railroad strike in 30 years.

TRUMPISM - Karl Marx famously wrote in the Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte that historical facts appear twice, “the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.”

ENVIRONMENT - The Glendale City Council will now be voting tomorrow, Tuesday, to approve the purchase of pricey machinery for a permanent methane plant at the Scholl Canyon dump.

THE DOCTOR IS IN - Hey, Joe, whaddaya know?  

POLITICAL COMMENTARY - On Sept. 1 of this year, President Joe Biden stood at the podium at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, the very place where the Declaration of Independence was proclaimed and delivered a blistering primetime speech aimed at the former president.

THE BRITISH MONARCHY - The death of Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-serving monarch of British royalty, has sparked global fascination and spawned thousands of clickbait reports of the details of her funeral.

EDUCATION - I will never forget the afternoon before my very first day as a middle school teacher in central New Jersey.

GUEST COMMENTARY - On 8th September, 2022, a 96-year old woman died. Nothing unusual there.

ENVIRONMENT - The United States uses about 100 billion plastic bags every year. By 2050, a report at the World Economic Forum predicted there will be as much plastic in the world’s oceans as fish. 

GUEST COMMENTARY - Three local elected United States representatives turned their backs on the protection of Women's rights namely the right of Choice which led up to the recent decision by the United States Supreme Court to overturn Roe vs Wade. 

MID TERM ELECTION - Prospects for Democrats winning in November in the House and Senate have picked up recently.

ELECTION POLITICS - Two-thirds of the way through 2022, the political situation is quite different than it appeared to be on January 1.