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Are We Going To Save Orcas Or Not? Another Blow to Chinook Salmon
"Fishery managers and NOAA could resolve this by moving Southeast Alaska’s Chinook fishery in or near the Alaskan rivers where their Chinook were born, allowing Chinook from down the coast to migrate back to their home rivers along the coast, and giving Southern Resident killer whales a chance to feed.”
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The Impeachment Show As Comedy. Very Dark Comedy.
Is it sacrilege to examine impeachment as a theme for a stage show? Perhaps, but if they can make a musical out of Les Miserables, think of what could be done with Trump, Guiliani, and the Three Amigos; with Volodymyr Zelensky as Jean Valjean?
Advice to Democrats: Vive Les Cafes!
France is working on a rural agenda, and Democrats in America could borrow some of the ideas for reviving cafes and hang-out places.
Duck And Cover: My Existential Dilemma
It's not the fear of full-fledged war, of bombs or towers falling. It's watching the real-time collapse of my country's fundamental institution, government, and the structures that are supposed to support it.
Will Older Women Pick the Next President?
A new poll published by AARP found that women over 50 are poised to have a decisive voice in choosing our next president because 95 percent of them plan to vote.
Shark Tank: Does Seattle Really Need One?
What do sharks have to do with Puget Sound? They draw crowds. One way out of this problem could be virtual reality. That's what is proposed in Sarasota, where the sharks and whales will be virtual, not captive.
The Real Reason Old Writers Keep Writing
God bless John McPhee for explaining both the How and the Why of what I've been doing for the last long while. It's probably why most of the old(er) journos at Post Alley would give our eyeteeth...
IMPEACHMENT
Democratic Voters Swing Left, But Moderates Still Have an Edge
Political analyst William Saletan thinks the moderates are winning the nomination, but the liberals have won the decade. He's partly right.
Review: “Evgenyi Onegin” – Pain! Passion! Poetry! (hold the irony . . .)
I suddenly realized how lucky we are to have it at all. If the poet who created the story and the composer who set it to music 40 years later had ever actually met, they would probably have disliked each other enough to make collaboration impossible.
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Everyone Wanted To Be Silicon Valley – Now Silicon Valley Is Everywhere
There are startup clusters all over now, the result of technological, social, and economic shifts that have given tech a much more footloose geography and allowed industry networks to cross borders and oceans with ease.
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Are We Going To Save Orcas Or Not? Another Blow to Chinook Salmon
"Fishery managers and NOAA could resolve this by moving Southeast Alaska’s Chinook fishery in or near the Alaskan rivers where their Chinook were born, allowing Chinook from down the coast to migrate back to their home rivers along the coast, and giving Southern Resident killer whales a chance to feed.”
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2020 DEM DEBATES
Dem Debate: Warren Debunked; Looking At Amy And Pete
Warren's failure to answer the medicare cost issue hurts her. Her wealth tax is likewise improbable and likely unconstitutional. Time to look at Amy and Pete.
Dem Debate: It’s Simple – Follow The 2018 Template!
Nancy Pelosi was smart. Focus on the issues where most Americans are already with he Democrats and keep it simple. So why don't some of the candidates get this?
Dem Debates: The Leftward-Ho March Is Slowing
And Joe? God bless him. He must be related to George W. Bush. The English language is not, apparently, his native tongue.
Dem Debates: Intensifying the Civil War in the Democratic Party
The liberals gave as good as they got, blasting “corporate” Democrats who only want to make incremental change.
Dem Debates: The Perils of Feverish Factionalism
I fear that any of the Big Three are creating personas of self that will serve up red meat for the ravenous pit bulls to be mega-funded in the campaign to make Donald Trump not the issue.
Dem Debates: Warren Keeps Winning the Media Nod. But Why?
I still heard Warren being declared a debate "winner" by the talking heads, because she is queen of the Twitter-and-Pronouns educated white progressive wing of the party, and national journalists at papers like the Times and the Post are all card-carrying members of this cohort.
