Surfers Surfed While San Diego Burned — Can We Learn Anything From the Wildfires of the Past?
I’m as much a fan of social historian Mike Davis as any other lefty who has attempted to figure out…
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I’m as much a fan of social historian Mike Davis as any other lefty who has attempted to figure out…
By the time we arrived at Mike Davis’ talk at the City Heights Rec Center on Landis Street, it was…
We’ve now been up for a week — and we’d sure like some feedback from you, our readers, commenters, and fellow…
by Paul Harris (written as a letter to the U-T editor) During the nightmarish firestorms in Southern California many individuals…
On Sunday, October 28th, the day after the “National Day of Action” — where thousands of Americans took to the…
Are arsonists or developers responsible for the fires? In Mike Davis’ 1998 book on ecological disasters in southern California. Ecology…
According to a brand new Zogby telephone poll, released on October 29, 2007, a majority of likely voters — 52%…
One of the things I have learned in reading history is that states and organizations often miscalculate or underestimate the…
THE CENTER ON POLICY INITIATIVES ASKS: Does Chronic Underfunding of Safety Services Heighten Fire Risk?The wildfires that tore into our…
Cluster bombs are a grave humanitarian concern. Unexploded remnants (called “bomblets”) kill in horrible ways: Children play with bomblets thinking…
In a spectacularly superfluous display of power, four horsemen of the San Diego Police Equestrian Squad rode through the streets…
Army Lt. Ehren Watada is the first officer to publicly refuse to deploy to the U.S. war on the people…
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