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A Perspective – From Crickets to Waves

 Patty Jones  October 28, 2007  2 Comments on A Perspective – From Crickets to Waves

Sometimes, late at night, I sit on Frank’s front porch under the wonderful canopy of trees and if the wind…

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Mike Davis Speaks – Seeing through the Smoke: the San Diego Fires

 Staff  October 28, 2007  1 Comment on Mike Davis Speaks – Seeing through the Smoke: the San Diego Fires

Mike Davis speaks on how the right is spinning the tragedy as a triumph of Republican values. Thursday, November 1,…

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We Have to Keep Asking: Why Did It Take So Long for the Military Aircraft to Get Up in the Air and Fight the Fires?

 Frank Gormlie  October 27, 2007  2 Comments on We Have to Keep Asking: Why Did It Take So Long for the Military Aircraft to Get Up in the Air and Fight the Fires?

It was before sunrise on Tuesday morning, the 23rd of October, the third day of the fires. Patty and I…

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