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rewilding LA: Matilija Dam History and Ecosystems

Creative FRONTLINE Interview with Tracker Ginamarie Rangel Quinone (Chiricahua Apache, AIM Grassroots)

(LOS ANGELES, Calif.) - Gina "Tracker" Quinone (Chiricahua Apache) knows what it feels like to lose access to traditional lands, a devastating and heartbreaking loss, stripping away connections to a homeland that exists only in memory.

Filmmaker/Journalist Robert Lundahl documents this loss of land and culture across the West.

Learning to Live With COVID-19

Due to our inadequate early response to the pandemic, COVID-19 is here to stay.

(SAN FRANCISCO, CA.) - The COVID-19 virus continues to claim at least 1,200 lives each week. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data show the latest surge continued nationally through the final week of 2023.

Hillbilly Heroin Brought to You by Purdue Pharma

Part 3 in a series of articles I have had published on the criminal activities of Purdue Pharma, maker of OxyContin and the Sackler family!

(MYRTLE BEACH, SC) - I lost my only daughter - Jill at 29-years old. She had the misfortune of being prescribed OxyContin for a herniated disc.

I set out to determine how a drug nicknamed "hillbilly heroin" could be killing and addicting so many people in every state in the country, as well as Canada.

Vax-Unvaxed - Let the Science Speak
Written by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Brian Hooker, PhD

Book Review by Marianne Perez for "unscientific readers"

(MYRTLE BEACH, SC) - In preparing the review on "Vax-Unvax - Let the Science Speak", it was important to me for people to understand -- in layman's terms -- if they were being coerced by government with "fear over facts" regarding a virus that denied our health decisions and our liberties.

Creating Art: If It`s Fun, It`s Alive

So why do I care about art? Indeed, why now?

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - As I trek toward the Great Unknown, as life’s struggles seem to intensify, some odd questions keep recurring.

Art — what is it again? Why does it matter? How does it matter? What does it mean to be “good” at it?

Chasing the American Dream in Lithium Valley

Environmental justice means economic justice. It means jobs justice.

(LOS ANGELES, Calif.) - A few years ago, on a road trip to the Salton Sea and the town of Brawley, Calif. Some parts of town had a vaguely uninhabited look, boarded buildings sucking the life out of the place.

The Salton Sea qualifies as an environmental disaster area.

IronMan 70.3 Comes to Salem this Weekend

During the event, Peter Courtney Minto-Island Bridge will be Closed (July 23)

(SALEM, Ore.) - Becoming an IRONMAN for the first time is a life-changing experience. That moment will come this weekend, as athletes from around the world take part in this year’s IRONMAN 70.3 Oregon.

IRONMAN will host thousands of athletes as they compete in the more than 70-mile racecourse through the heart of Salem and the Willamette Valley.

Climate Change: Impending Doom

Our efforts to combat climate change have been too little, too late.

(SAN FRANCISCO, CA.) - "The world is likely to surpass its ambitious climate target — limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above preindustrial temperatures — by the early 2030s.

"Beyond that threshold... climate disasters will become so extreme that people will not be able to adapt."

Who Needs Chinese Scientists? America Does.

Unfair and Dysfunctional

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Xie Xiaoliang is one of Harvard’s premier scientists, a biophysical chemist known for his work on DNA.

He’s leaving Harvard to take an academic position in his home country, China, one of about 1400 top Chinese scientists who in recent years have given up their US positions and returned to China.

Harm Reduction: Wolves in Sheep`s Clothing Poking a Hornets` Nest!

After over 21 years of exposing and reporting on the opioid/fentanyl/harm reduction crisis killing in the hundreds of thousands, I am now convinced it was manufactured and promoted by profiteers as a weapon of mass destruction.

(MYRTLE BEACH, SC) - Critics say supervised injection sites encourage drug use and bring crime to surrounding communities.

Proponents argue that they save lives and can help people in addiction reconnect with society and get health services.