We continued down Highway 95, driving through more desert, more heat (temperatures around 100 today), and into Yuma, Arizona, near the Mexican border. This caps an almost 1,400 mile ‘Hard Ride of 95’ journey for us, and it was now … Continue reading →
I interviewed Dr. David Brooks in Blythe, California. He operates Salude (Health) Clinic here. A significant portion of the community here is poor and Dr. Brooks provides his services through Salude Clinic on purely a donation basis. (He established the … Continue reading →
A recent front page article in The New York Times described the current famine in the country of Niger. Because of drought last year in this country, the second poorest country in the world, one in five young children are … Continue reading →
On the way to a conference on a “Nuclear Free World” at UNLV in Las Vegas, Nevada, we had to go along “the strip,” with all the casinos, electronic billboards with practically naked show girls, and so on… (Trying to … Continue reading →
For the last three days, we’ve been at a conference on a “Nuclear Free World” at the University of Las Vegas. (Today is the 60th anniversary of the dropping of the atom bomb on Hiroshima.) The atom bomb was experimented … Continue reading →
Yesterday we entered Nevada, still on Hwy 95. In McDermitt, just across the state line, I interviewed Chris Abbruzzesa, who is a local project coordinator for the Student Conservation Association. Abbruzzesa, two college interns and some local high school students … Continue reading →
Still on Hwy 95, we headed out of Idaho and into a vast corner of Oregon that can be best described as the proverbial: “No Man’s (or Woman’s) Land.” Hwy 95 through here spans some 230 miles and is dotted … Continue reading →
The topic of embryonic stem cell research has been in the newspapers that past several days since Bill Frist announced he believes there should be federal funding for this. I don’t. Several years ago I attended a seminar in Michigan … Continue reading →
We’ve headed further south along Hwy 95 to Grangeville, Idaho where I was interviewed by the editor of the Idaho County Free Press, David Rauzi. The last topic we talked about was the tremendous breakdown of the nuclear family in … Continue reading →
While in Moscow, Idaho I interviewed Brad Jaeckel who teaches a course on Organic Farming (and runs a 3 acre organic farm Community Sponsored Agriculture project) for Washington State University here. He said there has been a movement in the … Continue reading →