Opponents Team Up Against Voting Rights
In the week that we have commemorated Martin Luther King's birthday, I found myself thinking about a football coach. And the football angle has nothing to do with the NFL playoffs. In 1990, the voters of Arizona rejected a ballot measure that...
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Overturn Citizens United
Eleven years ago on Jan. 21, 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court, in its Citizens United vs. FEC decision, ruled that corporations and other groups had a right to spend unlimited amounts of money on elections. This gave the wealthy, corporations and...
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Look Who Censured Representatives Cheney and Kinzinger
Today the January jobs report showed the U.S. added 467,000 jobs. With more than 6.6 million jobs since Biden took office, 2021 under Biden created more jobs than any other year in history. The jobs report also revised the numbers for November...
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Reject the assault on rooftop solar
The cost shift argument is a lie concocted by the fossil fuel industry and rolled out to state legislatures all over our country by ALEC. A similar measure enacted in Nevada practically killed affordability of rooftop solar. The real cost...
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City of Placerville grants use of Main Street building;...
In late December, just before a big storm was predicted to bring snow to elevations as low as 1,800 feet, City Manager Cleve Morris reached out to Housing El Dorado's Board President Maureen Dion-Perry to ascertain what services the nonprofit had ...
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But what did they think they were seeing?
I've thought a lot lately about Representative Lauren Boebert's (R-CO) tweet on January 6, 2021, saying, "Today is 1776." It's clear that those sympathetic to stealing the 2020 election for Donald Trump over the will of the majority of Americans...
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Confounding Contradictions
I am truly baffled by inherent contradictions in a particular set of beliefs. The first contradiction pertains to sovereignty over one's own body. It claims "My body, my choice" in objection to COVID vaccinations while, at the same time, denying...
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Youth Franchise: The Forgotten Sixties Movement
Absent from popular memory and most scholarly histories of the 1960s is the youth franchise movement, which achieved the 26th Amendment to the US Constitution in 1971. This amendment gave the right to vote to 18-, 19-, and 20-year-olds and...
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