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Cade, HaroldJune 25, 2010
Interview 202a : In this telephone interview with Patsy Colbert, Harold Cade reminisces about growing up in Diboll during segregation and attending Diboll's segregated black school. A 1944 graduate of H.G. Temple School, Mr. Cade joined the military and studied at Prairie View A&M University before becoming a life-long educator in other areas of Texas, particularly in cities along the south Texas Coast.
Callager, Emma JonesJune 01, 2002
Interview 234a : In this interview in front of an audience at the Pinewood Park Apartments with Dickie Dixon and Reverend Bettie Kennedy, Emma Jones Callager talks about her childhood going to school in Lufkin, her experiences with her Ingram family relatives, and her work at her church, Long Chapel CME Church in Lufkin. She also discusses the Black church choirs, the years she spent teaching, her daycare center, Manning and Ewing schools, and her travels. She particularly mentions Will Ingram and several houses he built, the Hackneys, and other African American community leaders during segregation.
Campbell, GaryJuly 25, 1984
Interview 146a : In this interview with Becky Bailey, Diboll Independent School District Superintendent Dr. Gary Campbell talks about his teaching career in various East Texas and Houston area schools and then his progression to the position of Superintendent of Diboll. He talks about the need to work with the teachers, principals, and school board to raise the district's test scores, to update the curriculum and facilities, and utilize the district's money in a way that will benefit the students and teachers. He is especially excited about technology and computer upgrades for the classrooms.
Capps, Billie JeanMay 10, 2010
Interview 193a : In this interview with Patsy Colbert, long-time Diboll teacher Billie Jean Capps reminisces about her 38 years in local education. The interview focuses on the integration of Diboll's schools, and Mrs. Capps discusses her experiences as an elementary teacher during that process. Mrs. Capps talks about Mr. Pate and the other administrator, the details involved with combining classes and teachers, and the attitudes of fellow teachers and parents. She mentions Odyessa Wallace and the Masseys, Valerie Anderson, and Odyessa Bray. Mrs. Capps grew up in the area and graduated from Diboll High School, and offers the perspective of someone who as observed the local schools as a student, teacher, and parent.
Capps, JewelJuly 11, 1985
Interview 65a : In this interview with her granddaughter-in-law Billie Jean Capps, Mrs. Jewel Capps recalls life in Angelina County from the beginning of the 20th Century. She reminisces about taking care of her siblings, washing clothes outside by the creek, killing and preserving hogs, recreation, school, and discipline.
Capps, MarshallFebruary 03, 2010
Interview 189a : In this interview with Jonathan Gerland, long-time Diboll Independent School District board member Marshall Capps reminisces about his 12-year tenure on the board, including the years of integration. Mr. Capps began his school board position when the Beulah Common School District consolidated with Diboll in 1962. Shortly thereafter, the Diboll board began the integration process with a Freedom of Choice plan. Mr. Capps remembers it to be a relatively painless process in which the board recognized that desegregation would happen and wanted to control the process in their town.
Capps, Shannon
Interview 129a: The following text is not an interview, but commentary accompanying a slide presentation given by Shannon Capps. She describes historical photos of Diboll and then introduces Diboll citizens who tell their memories on various subjects such as housing conditions, schools, recreation, buildings, and the changes in the town over the years. Those giving their memories include Clyde Thompson, Dixie Cook, Willie Massey, O.W. Harrison, Geneva Sides Ard, Dewey Wolf, Jack Webb, Dale Grantham, Ruth Poland, and Opal Franks.
Carr, EarlDecember 12, 1986
Interview 106a : In this interview with student Billy Kujala, Earl Carr recalls going to school in Diboll in the 1940s and 1950s. He talks about his teachers Mrs. Dixie Cook and Mrs. Beatrice Burkhalter, walking to and from school, his favorite subjects, and what he remembers of World War II and the Korean War as a child. He also touches on the differences between schools in the 1940s and the 1980s.
Carrington, CharlesOctober 09, 2006
Interview 250a : In this panel interview at a meeting of the Angelina County Historical Commission, Reverend Bettie Kennedy interviews alumni of Dunbar, Lufkin's African American high school. The panel included Willie Mae Burley, Lacy Chimney, Dr. Odis Rhodes, I.D. Henderson, Ellis Carrington, Sr., Charles Carrington, Ellis Carrington, Jr., and Reggie Brown. They discuss attending school and teaching school during segregation in Lufkin, the challenges and rewards of the segregated schools, and the differences once racial integration started. Mr. R.L. Kuykendall also speaks about the Dunbar trophies. Mr. Reggie Brown of Baytown then speaks about his position as a member of the Baytown Historical Association and his work with the T.J. Ford Foundation and their efforts to get Texas U.I.L to recognize the accomplishments of the segregation black schools. He talks about their efforts to recognize alumni all over the state, including East Texas.
Carrington, Ellis Sr.July 15, 2002
Interview 244a : In this interview with R.L. Kuykendall, Ellis Carrington, Sr., reminisces about his life as an African American man in Lufkin, Texas from 1922 to 2002. Mr. Carrington recalls going to school at Dunbar High School, quitting school and getting married, working for Lufkin Foundry and the railroad, surviving the Depression, and raising his family. Mr. Carrington talks about racial discrimination, segregated schools, life in Lufkin's African American Community throughout the 20th century, celebrations, businesses, and community leaders.
Carrington, Ellis Sr.October 09, 2006
Interview 250a : In this panel interview at a meeting of the Angelina County Historical Commission, Reverend Bettie Kennedy interviews alumni of Dunbar, Lufkin's African American high school. The panel included Willie Mae Burley, Lacy Chimney, Dr. Odis Rhodes, I.D. Henderson, Ellis Carrington, Sr., Charles Carrington, Ellis Carrington, Jr., and Reggie Brown. They discuss attending school and teaching school during segregation in Lufkin, the challenges and rewards of the segregated schools, and the differences once racial integration started. Mr. R.L. Kuykendall also speaks about the Dunbar trophies. Mr. Reggie Brown of Baytown then speaks about his position as a member of the Baytown Historical Association and his work with the T.J. Ford Foundation and their efforts to get Texas U.I.L to recognize the accomplishments of the segregation black schools. He talks about their efforts to recognize alumni all over the state, including East Texas.
Carswell, MarthaJanuary 10, 2011
Interview 216a : In this interview with Patsy Colbert, long-time Diboll teacher Martha Carswell reminisces about her years teaching in Diboll, particularly during the racial integration of the schools. Mrs. Carswell taught for 44 years, starting in Lufkin and then moving to Diboll as a 5th and 6th grade teacher. She started in Diboll during Freedom of Choice and then stayed through full integration, with a few years off when her children were young. Mrs. Carswell remembers fellow teachers Mrs. Sibley, Mrs. Stubblefield, Mrs. Pate, and Mrs. Poland. She also remembers her principals Mr. Gartman and Mr. Porter.
Caton, W.T. CarterAugust 30, 1976
Interview 5a : In this interview with Marge Shepherd, W.T. Carter Caton reminisces about growing up in Camden and working for the Carter Lumber Company until 1970 (with a short stint in Oregon during the late 1920s). He remembers helping the logging railroad convert from narrow gauge to standard gauge and refinishing some furniture for one of the Carter daughters.
Chandler, AnnieSeptember 10, 1984
Interview 104a : In a short 1954 interview with Clyde Thompson, Annie Chandler reminisces about her early life in Diboll. Her father was involved in Southern Pine Lumber Company's Diboll mill starting in 1895 and Mrs. Chandler spent the rest of her life in Diboll. She married and raised her children there. She remembers getting off the train in Diboll before there was a town. Mrs. Chandler's son, O'Hara was a longtime company executive, and two of her daughters, Rhoda Faye and Finney, worked in the office.
Chandler, O'HaraSeptember 08, 1984
Interview 44a : Early Dibollians Fenner Roth, Herbert Weeks, and O'Hara Chandler, each born in or about 1908, tell of life in Diboll during the 1910s and 1920s during a 1984 interview by leaders of the Diboll Historical Society. The men recall railroad travel, eateries, childhood entertainments, early automobiles, alligators in the mill pond, school teachers, yard work, bitter weeds, and the communities of Emporia and Copestown. Persons discussed include Frank Farrington, Watson Walker, George Johnson, and John Oliver.
Chandler, O'HaraJune 18, 1999
Interview 148a : In this interview with Jonathan Gerland, longtime educator O'Hara Chandler reminisces about growing up in and around Diboll, working at the sawmill, going to school, and teaching school all over the state. He recalls swimming in the Emporia millpond, Dred Devereaux and his bridges, and his family's time spent working for Southern Pine Lumber Company.
Chandler, O'HaraAugust 17, 1999
Interview 148b : In August, 1999, Howard Daniel asked O'Hara Chandler to speak to a meeting of the Diboll Rotary Club about his memories of growing up in Diboll. He talks about going to school in Diboll and leaving town for college, using checks at the company store, attending and participating in a traveling circus that stopped in town each year, and a traveling stack cleaner.
Chandler, Rhoda FayeSeptember 07, 1982
Interview 6a : Diboll native Rhoda Faye Chandler tells interviewer Becky Bailey about growing up in Diboll and working for Southern Pine Lumber Company as a young woman. Miss Chandler started working in the accounting office during the Depression for $35/week but was laid off after three months. She was rehired to work by the day (at $3.50/day) and ended up making more money that way than when she was on salary. She recalls the early days of electric service in Diboll, recreation for young people, going to Lufkin for the movies, Depression-era programs like the CCC and the WPA, and the SPLCo. payroll system.
Chandler, Rhoda FayeAugust 08, 1985
Interview 6b : In this interview with Becky Bailey, Rhoda Faye Chandler, and her brother O'Hara Chandler recall life during the Depression and how Southern Pine Lumber Company took care of its employees and their families when times were hard. Miss Chandler describes going to the homes of Diboll residents in need to asses their situations so that the company could help them out after an accident or death, or when hard times made feeding and clothing a family difficult. She describes the care the company took to ensure that everyone had a home and enough food to eat, and how they worked with local churches and other citizens to care for each other.
Chapman, June TaylorFebruary 18, 2014
265a: In this interview with Patsy Colbert, June Taylor Chapman reminisces about life as a junior high and high school student during racial integration at Diboll schools. As the first African American cheerleader, she was part of the integration of sports and extracurricular activities and has a unique the perspective of belonging to two worlds during that time. She recalls life at H.G. Temple before integration, attending the white school for the first time, being accepted by the other cheerleaders and their families, instances of racial discrimination and conflict at school, and how the races interacted in town. She speaks about Mr. and Mrs. Massey, Coach Porter, Mr. Ramsey, Arthur Temple, Jr., and Byrd Davis, in particular.
Chimney, LacyOctober 09, 2006
Interview 250a : In this panel interview at a meeting of the Angelina County Historical Commission, Reverend Bettie Kennedy interviews alumni of Dunbar, Lufkin's African American high school. The panel included Willie Mae Burley, Lacy Chimney, Dr. Odis Rhodes, I.D. Henderson, Ellis Carrington, Sr., Charles Carrington, Ellis Carrington, Jr., and Reggie Brown. They discuss attending school and teaching school during segregation in Lufkin, the challenges and rewards of the segregated schools, and the differences once racial integration started. Mr. R.L. Kuykendall also speaks about the Dunbar trophies. Mr. Reggie Brown of Baytown then speaks about his position as a member of the Baytown Historical Association and his work with the T.J. Ford Foundation and their efforts to get Texas U.I.L to recognize the accomplishments of the segregation black schools. He talks about their efforts to recognize alumni all over the state, including East Texas.
Christian, Mary JaneSeptember 29, 1985
Interview 67a : In this interview with Diboll teacher Gayle Beene, Diboll native and life-long teacher Mary Jane Christian reminisces about growing up in Diboll, going to college at Stephen F. Austin State University, and teaching for 42 years. Mrs. Christian recalls her teachers and the school buildings, she remembers living through the depression and World War II, and she details how the teaching profession has changed throughout her 4-decade long career.
Christian, Mary JaneSeptember 29, 1987
Interview 67b : In this interview with student Elvia Esteves, Mary Jane Christian recalls racial relations in the Diboll schools throughout her life. She grew up in Diboll when the schools were segregated and also began teaching before integration. Mrs. Christian remembers integration from the perspective of a teacher in the elementary school grades.
Clement, Dr. J.C.June 12, 1985
Interview 062a: In this interview with Becky Bailey, former Diboll town doctor J.C. Clement reminisces about his days as Diboll's physician, moving to Lufkin, and the changes in the medical industry throughout his career. He recounts his early schooling and his introduction to Diboll and mentions many names of prominent citizens. He describes medical care facilities and practices and laments the changes since his career began. He also describes the town of Diboll, its people and buildings, and the changes it has seen over the years.
Coleman, HowardSeptember 19, 1999
Interview 240a: In this interview with community leader R.L. Kuykendall, Howard Coleman reminisces about his life in Lufkin. He speaks about the Great Depression, Civilian Conservation Corps, race relations and discrimination, and some of the major families in Lufkin's African American Community.
Coleman, Sam Sr.August 09, 2010
Interview 206a : In this interview with Patsy Colbert, Mr. Sam Coleman, Sr. reminisces about his life in Diboll. Mr. Coleman came to Diboll in 1966 and immediately became active in the community. In 1975 he was elected as the first African American member of the Diboll City Council. Throughout his tenure in Diboll, Mr. Coleman worked at the Fiberboard Plant and as a driver for the Temple family and was a manager at Boggy Slough. He volunteered for many community organizations, including Diboll Day, the Boy Scouts, Little League Baseball and the Boys and Girls Club. Mr. Coleman witnessed many changes in Diboll and his leadership helped smooth the integration process in various parts of the community.
Cook, DixieMarch 31, 2011
Interview 220a : In this interview with Patsy Colbert, long-time teacher and Nacogdoches County native Dixie Cook reminisces about her life in the classroom in Diboll and Pasadena. She began teaching in Diboll at the request of Mr. Pate in 1943 before finishing her degree at Stephen F. Austin and continued to teach for 40 years, eventually finishing her bachelor's degree and earning a master's degree. Mrs. Cook talks about teaching in Diboll before racial integration and after integration, but during the process since she lived and taught in Pasadena at the time. She mentions Robert Cook, Lucille Cook, Jack Cook Sweeny, discipline in the classroom, Mr. Ramsey, O'Hara Chandler, Mr. Pate, Joe Paul Stovall, and her work with the American Diabetes Association.
Cooke, StacyFebruary 01, 2010
Interview 188a : In this interview with Jonathan Gerland, Stacy Cooke reminisces about the 14 years he spent as a member of the Diboll Independent School District School Board. The interview focuses on the years 1966-1970, during the integration of Diboll's schools. He credits the board, the school administration, the teachers, the students, the local community, and Arthur Temple, Jr. for ensuring that Diboll experienced desegregation without many problems.
Corder, Rose FrazierNovember 30, 2010
Interview 215a : In this interview with Jonathan Gerland and Richard Donovan, sisters Rose Frazier Corder, Wilhelmenia Frazier Hardy, and Arverta Frazier Mosely reminisce about their lives growing up in the southern Angelina County African American settlement of Boykin Settlement in the middle of the 20th century. They all attended the Vernon County Line School (near the Blue Hole) and then went on to have professions and higher education. Mrs. Mosely attended Prairie View College and became a teacher at Camp Nancy and then spent the rest of her career as a County Home Demonstration Agent or County Extension Agent. At first the office was segregated and she only worked with African American women, but in the 1960's and 1970's the offices were racially integrated and she taught all women to can and freeze food and other domestic skills. Mrs. Hardy moved to Houston and then Milwaukee, Wisconsin with her husband, where she attended cosmetology school and real estate school. She talks about the differences in culture and race relations in Milwaukee than in Houston and Boykin Settlement. Mrs. Corder moved to Milwaukee as a teenager to live with her sister Wilhelmenia, where she adapted to life in a school of 3000 students. She continued her education and became a nurse in Milwaukee and California, before returning to Lufkin. The Frazier sisters grew up in this African American community in a family of 13 children that all survived to adulthood. Their ancestors, the Runnels, were former slaves who settled in the area.
Cornick, IleneMay 15, 2009
Interview 181a : In this interview with Jonathan Gerland, Ilene Cornick reminisces about her life as a World War II widow, member of the Red Cross, teacher, and member of the United States Army Special Services Branch. Mrs. Cornick's husband, Ray, died when his P-42 crashed in the North Sea in 1944. She joined the Red Cross the following year and traveled to Europe to run service clubs for American soldiers in Luxembourg and Germany. She taught school in San Augustine, Diboll, and Houston, and ran the YMCA in El Paso. Mrs. Cornick also traveled to Korea with the U.S. Army, where she taught at an international school and worked for the Special Services in the service clubs. While in Korea, Mrs. Cornick was acquainted with Syngman Rhee, the eventual President of Korea. She also worked for the Special Services in Japan, Saudi Arabia, and Germany.
Courtney, Ollie MaeFebruary 13, 2003
Interview 245a : In this interview with R.L. Kuykendall and an unknown co-interviewer, Ollie Mae Courtney reminisces about growing up in Angelina County during the first half of the 20th Century. She talks about her family, attending Lufkin High School, farming in Lufkin, World War I, the Depression, World War II, and rationing. She also recalls her first ever car ride, and her father's businesses.
Craft, OletaJanuary 01, 1987
Interview 124a : Oleta Craft, owner of the Dress Craft clothing store, recalls working at the Mize Factory in Nacogdoches and opening her store in Diboll. She remembers how she built up her stock and gained loyal customers, dealt with salesmen, kept the store going when times were tough. She also recalls her encounter with a cross dresser who came to buy women's clothing at her store.
Crager, HaroldNovember 30, 1987
Interview 117a : Harold Crager recalls his entrance into the Air Force in 1948. He remembers signing up and shipping out to San Antonio, enduring basic training, and the skills he gained in those 13 weeks.
Cryer, GeorgeFebruary 18, 2014
Interview 266a: In this interview with Jonathan Gerland and Richard Donovan, Zavalla, Angelina County native George Cryer reminisces about growing up in southern Angelina County. He talks about his father's peckerwood sawmill, making crossties, working in the woods cutting timber, and the changes in the lumber industry for small producers in the middle of the 20th century. He talks about growing up in the Zavalla area, working for his father, hunting and fishing, the coming of the dams, the switch to chain saws, and working construction in the Beaumont area.
Currie, RuthNovember 30, 1987
Interview 95a : Mrs. Ruth Currie reminisces about her life as a railroader's wife in White City, Fastrill, and Diboll. A native of Louisiana, Mrs. Currie followed her husband from one Southern Pine Lumber Company operation to another. In White City she lived in a boxcar house. When the White City camp closed, her family moved to Fastrill, where they lived until 1939. She fondly remembers her time in Fastrill and the closeness of the families that lived there. She also recalls the Depression and how if affected Fastrill.


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ABSTRACT: Agricultural and water management is usually based on probabilities of seasonal or monthly rainfall, the quantity of which is commonly grouped into 3 categories: drought, normal, and abundant. Changes in the probability of rainfall amounts will influence decision-making by farmers and water managers. This study explores the changes induced by the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) on the probability of seasonal rainfall in Spain. We analyzed the seasonal ENSO index, divided into 3 phases: positive (La Niña), neutral, and negative (El Niño). Seasonal rainfall in Spain for 19122000 was divided into 3 groups corresponding to each ENSO phase. Resulting empirical distribution functions allow an estimate of the changes in the probability of seasons being wet or dry that are due to changes in the ENSO phase. The analysis was made considering contemporaneous seasons, and rainfall series lagged 1 and 2 seasons. ENSO affects rainfall in Spain as follows: (1) In autumn, El Niño leads to a null probability of drought, while La Niña leads to a low probability of wet conditions in the whole country, except in the north; in the Mediterranean area in the following spring, an autumn El Niño leads to drought and an autumn La Niña to a null probability of drought. (2) In winter there is no ENSO influence, perhaps as a consequence of the predominance of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO). (3) In spring, La Niña leads to a low probability of drought in the north. (4) In summer, La Niña leads to drought in SW Spain, as well as in the north in the following winter; in addition, in the following autumn there are low probabilities of drought after El Niño, and of wet conditions after La Niña.
KEY WORDS: ENSO · Seasonal rainfall · Extreme events · Spain
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Well, the timing is rich.
Today -- the same day that Fort Lauderdale city commissioners will vote on whether to allow the moving of a 100-year-old tree and the building of a massive, three-tower apartment complex called Marina Lofts right along the New River -- legendary Miami Dolphins quarterback Dan Marino's real estate company announces it's moving away from that area and toward the beach.
Builders have argued for years that they just need to build more, more, more concrete things along the Riverwalk and people will come. But the reality is different.
In a news release, Marino's Michelle Farber Ross was quoted saying, "We are excited to move to one of the most trafficked areas in Fort Lauderdale. We feel the time is perfect to call the Fort Lauderdale beach our new home, especially during the high-season months. The majority of our business comes from visitors who fall in love with the area and want to take advantage of our beautiful beaches and year-round activities."
Hear that, commissioners? People like nature.
And when people can enjoy the nature, surrounding businesses don't even have to work to lure them. The news release continued:
MMD Realty's new office is located next door to Franco and Vinny's, a local family Italian restaurant owned and operated by Vinny Esposito for the last 41 years. "In season we have a line out the door with patrons waiting to be seated. We have never advertised and we still get these crowds, year after year. We are excited to have MMD Realty open next door. It will be great for the plaza and a boost to the area," says Esposito.
Ross and the partners of MMD Realty are betting on the central beach area and the arrival of establishments such as Tim Petrillo's, S3 - Sun, Surf, Sand and The Atlantic Surf Club just down the street. "The Fort Lauderdale real estate market is really seeing an up-tick now. The beach is seeing a lot of activity from developers who are applying for zoning and permits to build and take advantage of the improving market." Explains Ross, "The climate of the market has changed so drastically over the last six months. It's an exciting time in real estate. We are working with developers and are exclusively launching several new waterfront projects in Fort Lauderdale this season. Our agents are being kept very busy!"
Another boost to the Fort Lauderdale real estate market is the expansion of the Fort Lauderdale airport. Within the next five years, International travel will increase, using Fort Lauderdale as a hub for direct flights.
Looks like Asi Cymbal should have bought some property on the beach instead.
Then again... it's all kinda moot. It will all be underwater before long.
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In the car on the way to a train station in rural New Jersey with my aunt and best friend, I commented that as a young person I used to look forward to the winter holidays, and that as an adult, I no longer do. This is not because I've become disillusioned regarding Santa, nor is it because large-scale family gatherings are stressful or unpleasant (for me, they're delightful), nor is it due to some sort of holiday gift giving phobia. I no longer look forward to the winter holidays because I work in wine retail, where the month of December looms like a massive, month-long black cloud.
Late November kicks off the season of mayhem, when every red-blooded American, it seems, wishes to answer one vital question: "what wine should I have with my turkey?" Each year, I hope against hope that folks will have moved away from that odious grape: Sauvignon Blanc, which seems to imbue the wines made from it with the unmistakable odor of cat-pee and lemon-juice-stewed herbs. And each year I find myself fielding afresh requests for "a nice Sauvignon Blanc to pair with turkey." Friends; hear ye! Sauvignon (both Cabernet and Blanc) is not the right wine for Thanksgiving! Suck up your prejudices and buy a Chardonnay or a Riesling or a Beaujolais or a Pinot Noir, for the love of God! (My best friend, who also works in wine retail, told me she will not allow her customers to buy Sauvignon Blanc for turkey.) And Thanksgiving is just the beginning, the front bracket to a season bracketed by New Years Eve at the other end.
Does this make me sound like a jerk? I'm not a jerk, but I've been doing this for eight years, and since I moved to New York six years ago, I have never been home for Thanksgiving or Christmas. Asking for time off to share these holidays I used to love on my home turf would be like a sailor asking for vacation in the midst of a raging storm. All hands on deck, crew! As bitter as I find myself sounding, I understand that this is my job, and I took the job knowing full well what the conditions are. In essence, I have no right to complain. Also, there are many gratifying aspects of wine retail, not the least of which is uniting a customer with a great bottle of wine for their meal, turkey or otherwise.
What I'm getting at here is that unfortunately I don't think I'll have time or energy for deep wine thoughts until 2014. However this has not and will not stop me from drinking fun wines. To that end, here are some delicious bottles I've drunk recently.
On AR's recommendation, I picked up this Canary Islands wine from Gran Canaria. I have written about wine from the Canaries before. There's great mystery as to how the wines attain balance given that the vines are essentially growing in Africa. However, they do… Apparently many of the vineyards are quite high altitude; Fronton de Oro's are at 1,000 meters and terraced. And there are much needed winds that cool the landscape, as the mistral cools the vineyards of Provence and the Southern Rhône. Still, my problem with Canaries wines has always been that they don't have quite enough acidity to make the flavors, which are often compelling and complex, really pop on the palate. I need to get over it. These are not northern French wines.Fronton de Oro is in the Gran Canaria town of La Lechuza, known locally as "El Fronton." It's a family operation that – until 1999 – didn't aspire beyond the production of some wine for the family to drink. (Now look how far they've come! Their simplest Listan Negro-based wine sipped at BYO Middle Eastern restaurants in Brooklyn…) A blend of Listan Negro and Tintilla, this wine spends three months in used barrels and weighs in at 13.5% alcohol. My initial impression was of telltale smoky minerality, mingling with slight disappointment that there wasn't more acidity in the wine. The nose was all smoky cherries, raspberries, brushy herbs, and sumac, while the palate was lively in spite of the aforementioned acid issue… AR had previously mentioned that these wines remind her of Jura reds, both Poulsard and Trousseau. It's an odd comparison, but I knew what she meant. She expressed it as a whiff of tomato floating across the nose and palate that brings Poulsard to mind. For me it was an herbal note, and a hint of raspberry seed on the midpalate that gives way to a porous and smoky finish. At any rate, it's a lot of wine for $15.99, and it was sensational after two and even three days open.
There's something refreshing about a determined quest to seek out value in wine, to put the price cap at $20 or maybe $25 per bottle. Most of the folks I know in the wine trade drink a lot of baller wine, and while it's great to drink this way, for many of us it spoils the pleasure of a tasty bottle in a lower price range. In order to be a good wine retailer, you have to find what's well-made and inexpensive, which is often harder than finding what's spectacular and expensive. Furthermore, a stint drinking humble, everyday wines allows the fancy, special occasion bottles to remain fancy and special. (Anecdotally, it's happened more times than I'd care to recall, that a customer with whom I have friendly rapport walked into the shop asking what sub $20 bottles I'd enjoyed recently and I had nothing to say. This is a sign that it's time to reset, and what better time to do so than December).
Juan-Antonio Ponce came to pour at Chambers Street a few weeks ago, and I have never been as taken with his wines as I was by the two 2012 reds he showed: Clos Lojen and Buena Pinta. Juan-Antonio is an extremely dedicated and excellent winemaker specializing in the rustic and thick-skinned Bobal grape variety that is native to Manchuela in central Spain. (Who can forget their first look at Juan-Antonio, emerging shirtless from a vat of juice with the tag line "Check out my Bobals"?) I'm fairly sure I remember from our first in-the-flesh meeting that Juan-Antonio is friends with Maxime Magnon in the Languedoc and has been influenced by his style. In fact Ponce's ultimate goal seems to be to make balanced wines, perhaps even vins de soif, from this grape. To that end he farms biodynamically and uses a technique of whole cluster fermentation called "remango" that incorporates both bunches and stems. The truth is that in warmer vintages, his wines are quite tannic, fairly hefty in alcohol, and just a little bit scary… at least to this humble blogger.
In 2012, however, Juan-Antonio made his best wines yet. I was stunned at his in-store tasting by how balanced and fresh Buena Pinta and Clos Lojen were. Clos Lojen – from the Domaine's younger Bobal vines (age 35-50 years) aged for seven months in old barrels – showed remarkable lightness and vivacity on the palate, while offering all the ripe, red and black fruit of a juicy Mediterranean wine. If you didn't know about Bobal, you might think it's Grenache, with its notes of plum, blueberry, and coffee cherry (the fruit that houses the coffee bean). It was this marriage of ripe aromas and flavors to freshness and lift on the palate that kept me coming back for more. Interestingly this is the same combination I was gently griping about in Occhipinti Siccagno in the last post. Clearly they are not the same wine by any means; Siccagno retails for $38.99, Clos Lojen for $12.99. Before I get myself in trouble, I'll close by saying that it's been a long time I derived so much pleasure from such an inexpensive wine.
There's also a sexy white wine made from Albilla called Reto, which has come into its own in 2012 if you're interested in trying more from the master of Bobal. I haven't taken it home recently enough to expound at great length, but the bottle I drank several months ago was memorable in a full-bodied, creamy, honeyed, Chenin-y way…
Returning to my comfort zone, Nicolas Gonin also came to pour at the store a few weeks ago. Gonin makes wine in a far-flung départment of France called Isère; his wines are labelled under the IGP "Balmes-Dauphinoises." Where is this place and what do they grow there? Situated mid-way between Lyon and Grenoble, Isère boasts the cold winters of the Alps as well as the hot, dry summers of the Rhône. The vineyards are at 250-400 meters, considerably lower altitude than our friends at Fronton de Oro, with southern and south-eastern exposures. Soils are clay, limestone, sandstone, and silt… with galets! The grapes are the grapes you find in the Savoie: Altesse, Mondeuse, and Persan. While I liked the Altesse and Mondeuse, it's the Persan that stole my heart. This wine was macerated on the skins for eight days before vinification in enamel tank. Gonin worked at both Ridge in California and Tempier in Bandol before returning home to revitalize vineyards in his native region. This bottle is, of course, more delicate than anything he would have made at Ridge or Tempier, with its ultra-tart, high-toned, crunchy red fruit and herbal aromatics. However, there's some fairly serious tannin on the finish given the wine's feather-weight frame. I've found the same thing in Mondeuses from Jean-Yves Péron in the Savoie, this tannic finish adorning an otherwise ethereal red wine… and I like it! Keeps me on my toes and makes me salivate. There's a delightful floral note on the palate as well as the iron-y character of some Cru Beaujolais. Having tasted 2010 Person at Thanksgiving (though before turkey emerged from the oven), I'm happy to report that these juicy, crunchy red fruits, sanguine minerality, and floral notes become even more enticing with an additional year of bottle age. The most expensive of Gonin's wines, it retails for $22.99.
There are two morals to this story: If you are thinking of starting a job in wine retail, don't expect to see your family for the holidays unless they live close by. And, for every fancy bottle you crack, check in on a geeky, everyday bottle.


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Early Sunday morning in the drizzling rain, a small group of people is standing on the shore of Lake Merritt peering out onto the lake through binoculars. They are birdwatchers participating in the Audubon Society's annual Christmas Bird Count— the group's annual tally of how many different species of bird are living in the United States.
Published November 15, 2010 on The Bay Citizen
On Broadway, in downtown Oakland, a small coffee shop called the Bulldog has a couple of round tables out on the sidewalk where people sit, read the paper and drink coffee, shaded by big blue umbrellas. To the unsuspecting eye, it looks like a regular business you'd find in any downtown city.
Published November 10, 2010 on The Bay Citizen
Five days a week, a long chrome truck pulls up to the East Bay Municipal Utility District's wastewater treatment plant. It lifts its hydraulic-powered trailer bed and proceeds to dump 40,000 pounds of what looks like thick sewage into a giant underground mixer.
Published August 19, 2010 on Oakland North Teresa Rowe and Kristin Orbin have waited in line to get married at San Francisco City Hall two times in the past two weeks and were planning on a third. When Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker ruled to strike down Proposition 8 on August 4, saying that the […]
Published August 5, 2010 on Oakland North
For years, no one thought that "the nemesis" was possible—a freestyle footbag trick in which a player must kick a small leather ball, also known as a hacky sack, into the air, circle it twice with each leg then catch it on their shoe behind their back.
Published July 29, 2010 on The Bay Citizen
Francisco Ballesteros stands on Old Tunnel Road, halfway to the crest of the Oakland hills, and looks down into a small valley where a herd of sheep and goats are grazing. "I have seven new babies," he says, then gingerly starts making his way down a dirt path toward the animals.
Published July 19, 2010 on The Bay Citizen
Disparaged as outside troublemakers, these protestors identify as "freedom fighters."
Published July 9, 2010 on Oakland North
As the sun set behind City Hall and the City of Oakland's official rally came to an end, a few people in black hoodies began weaving throughout the crowd, pulling bandanas up over their faces. What had been a peaceful afternoon demonstration — against the outcome of the trial regarding the shooting of Oscar Grant — was about to become a chaotic night.
Cover story published May 12, 2010 in the East Bay Express
When, on a whim, I decided to enter last June's Rad Massaker Alleycat bike race, I didn't quite know what to expect – fun, intense competition, getting severely lost, being ticketed by the cops for running red lights?
Published December 13, 2009 in The New York Times Magazine
Imagine robots that obey injunctions like Immanuel Kant's categorical imperative – acting rationally and with a sense of moral duty. This July, the roboticist Ronald Arkin finished a three-year project with the U.S. Army designing prototype software for autonomous ethical robots.
Published December 13, 2009 in The New York Times Magazine
Laura Parker, an artist and agricultural activist based in Northern California, asked a friend late last year to raise a 320-pound pig on his farm to see if its flavor would match that of the dirt it grew up on. In May, Parker and her friends butchered, slow-cooked and ate the pig while smelling soil from the same farm.
Cover story published September 9, 2009 in the East Bay Express
Coach Alonzo Carter tasted fame as a dancer for MC Hammer. But his career was short-lived, like those of many athletes. That's why he expects his players to succeed in the classroom.
Published June 1, 2009 in SF Weekly.com
At first glance, San Francisco's Raoul Wallenberg High looks to be just another city school with peeling paint, tall fences, and randomly tagged walls. And yet, this is one of the most hallowed and revered sites in the world of skateboarding.
Published August 20, 2009 on CBS News.com
For bone cancer patient Nicole McLaughlin to get proton-beam radiation therapy–a treatment to which she owes her life–it took traveling across the country to what then, in 1999, was the only facility providing such technology.
Published February 9, 2009 on Oakland North
Loren Partridge has until February 28th to vacate Cunningham Partridge Gallery and Framing, the Piedmont Avenue business she ran for seven years. "I've seen it coming for months," said Partridge last Saturday afternoon. "Then January came, and boom."


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Songs of Despair, Songs of Beauty: Multispecies Listening in the Anthropocene Age
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Songs of Despair, Songs of Beauty: Multispecies Listening in the Anthropocene Age
In the age of the Anthropocene, all ecosystems, no matter how remote, are influenced by the power relations between humans, technology, and other organisms. Within the contact zone these power relations can be understood as geopolitical entanglements between species and technologies, played out amongst the landscape. I present a framework for listening that explores the contact zone as a site of human, technology, and multispecies relations. The framework is constructed of five enquiries for listening. The enquiries situate the listener as a dynamic actant within the soundscape and invite them to attend to the agential and political entanglements therein, via the lived sensations of their body. The enquires ask, how might the fleeting experience of sound be savoured through its ability to elicit experiences of embodiment, placing the listener within a web of relations between species and the systems of Earth.
Freya Zinovieff
Presented at the Livable Cities Symposium 2018, Anvil Center, New Westminster.


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The Uprising, December 14, 2018"Allow us to be very clear: we will not accept the usual excuses that our kids are too poor and our homes are too broken for our babies to learn." -Parents Leading for Educational Equity (PLEE) "a newly founded, parent-led, grassroots organization with a mission to fight for parent voice in education decision-making, and for access to a high-quality public
Published on December 14, 2018
By Steve Ahlquist
"Allow us to be very clear: we will not accept the usual excuses that our kids are too poor and our homes are too broken for our babies to learn."-Parents Leading for Educational Equity (PLEE) "a newly founded, parent-led, grassroots organization with a mission to fight for parent voice in education decision-making, and for access to a high-quality public school option for all children of color."
Welcome to the Uprising!
1. Hope Point Tower
In the end, Providence City Councilor Mary Kay Harris (Ward 11) changed her mind and became the deciding vote to override Providence Mayor Jorge Elorza's veto of the zoning variance requested by developer, Jason Fane, of the Hope Point Tower, thus granting the developer's request for height relief and zoning change.
Harris justified her decision with a long monologue that talked about a lot of issues, including affordable housing, and she promised that the City Council would address the affordable housing crisis, in part with money brought to the City by the Hope Point Tower.
DARE (Direct Action for Rights and Equality), Neighbors 4 Revitalization, and Rhode Island Homeless Advocacy Project (RIHAP) had issued an open letter vowing support for Harris if she decided to vote against overturning the veto. These groups said they would be willing to accept the Hope Point Tower, if the following conditions were met:
- Contributions to the city to fund rehabilitation of abandoned properties, finance the construction and maintenance of low-income housing, and offer rental vouchers to those transitioning from homelessness, and
- Designate at least 40 percent of all housing created in the development as affordable to very low and low income families in Providence (those with annual incomes of $30,000 or less)
- Create 1 new job for every $35,000 given in tax breaks and or subsidies,
- Ensure that new hires reflect the racial demographics of the city of Providence,
- Use apprenticeship programs for construction projects,
- Prioritize hiring people from census tracts with high crime, unemployment and poverty,
- Ensure there is no discrimination against job applicants with criminal records and prioritize hiring formerly incarcerated workers, and
- Fully comply with Providence's "First Source" local hiring ordinance.
It goes without saying that none of these conditions are currently being so much as considered by the City Council or the Fane Organization, the group that wants to build the project.
And it's not just groups that advocate for affordable housing that oppose the project. A long list of neighborhood groups and business concerns are also in opposition. They write: "Changing the rules after the City Council adopted both the Comprehensive Plan and Zoning Plan in 2014 signals that rules don't matter. This change is spot zoning being granted to a single developer. It is critical to developers and investment partners that guidelines are predictable and remain consistent throughout the build-out of an area. Drastically changing the rules midstream for one developer introduces doubt and uncertainty for both current and prospective developers."
While many are opposed to the project, some, like the Building Trades and Ed Achorn from the Providence Journal, are in favor. But the low-point in the entire affair, no matter which side you stand on, is City Councilor John Igliozzi (Ward 7)'s excuse for delaying the vote on the veto for two days on Tuesday. Asked the reason for the delay, Igliozzi said:
"It's pretty simple. As you can see, we don't have the full council here this evening and I thought it important that all of us, the full council, should have an opportunity to weigh in on such a serious issue."
City Councilors Seth Yurdin (Ward 1) and Wilbur Jennings (Ward 8) were not in attendance.
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"So we want to give deference to our Council colleagues and the people they represent," continued Igliozzi. "So continuing it for two days will not impact that and they will have an opportunity. It's all about Democracy."
The truth is that Igliozzi didn't have the votes on Tuesday due Jenning's absence. Despite Igliozzi's commitment to Democracy, the vote went off as planned on Thursday despite the absence of Yurdin.
Laughter broke out in the gallery at Igliozzi's excuse, but it wasn't funny. As a person said to me afterwards, Igliozzi's statement was "deeply cynical" and "an insult to Democratic values."
On Facebook a comment was written that pointed out that the word Igliozzi was looking for wasn't "Democracy" but "Oligarchy."
2a. Invenergy
The Energy Facilities Siting Board (EFSB) is set to resume hearings on Invenergy's planned $1 billion fracked gas and diesel oil burning power plant aimed at the pristine forests of northwest Rhode Island early next year on January 8, 9, 16 and 17. These hearings will take up the issue of whether the power plant is needed.
Ahead of the hearings, new testimony is being filed because the hearings are taking so long (it's been four years since Invenergy filed their application) that a lot o the previous testimony is out-of-date.
In those four years, Invenergy's expert witness Ryan Hardy has made a series of predictions, almost all of them proven wrong.
- Hardy predicted that Invenergy would clear both turbines in FCA-10, which it did not;
- Hardy predicted that Invenergy would clear Turbine Two in FCA-11, which it did not;
- Hardy predicted that Invenergy would clear Turbine Two in FCA-12, the very month that the ISO disqualified Invenergy's Turbine Two from participating in FCA-12;
- Hardy predicted that Invenergy would clear Turbine Two in FCA-13, but Turbine Two was again disqualified from FCA-13 and the CSO on Turbine One was terminated.
The expert witness for Conservation Law Foundation (CLF), n the other hand, Robert Fagan, has shown itself to be accurate.
Imagine if Invenergy had been granted the expedited approval for heir application, as they had requested at the beginning on these EFSB proceedings. Rhode Island would be regretting the licensing of a fracked gas power plant based on a series of poor predictions and bad science.
2b. Native American Sites
If built, the Invenergy power plant will be on land presently occupied by at least three Native American archeological sites. Invenergy expert witness Christopher Donta believes that "the Project will not cause unacceptable harm to any significant cultural or historic properties."
It would be interesting to hear what the Native American Tribes who originally occupied this land think about Donta's assertion that the sites under threat from Invenergy were "not significant."
2c. Providence Water
Unintended consequences?
"In my limited experience dealing in the financial space, there are certain implications that can arise from these types of conversations," said Xaykham Khamsyvoravong, Chair of the Providence Water Supply Board to the Board's legal advisor, William O'Gara, asking the attorney to look into whether or not there are any tax implications or any issues under our existing indenture in regard to the RFQ that has been issued by the City.
"It has been raised that this could potentially impact our ability to borrow from the State Infrastructure Bank, it could potentially impact our current, existing outstanding debt and I just want to make sure that as the City pursues what the City needs to under the Mayor's directive that this board at least will continues to operate and meet the expectations of ratepayers while also serving the City itself."
2d. Sunrise RI
Over 40 people sat in the office of United States Representative James Langevin Thursday afternoon after being refused a meeting to discuss a House Select Committee on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal. This comes just days after 1000 young people with Sunrise Movement traveled to D.C. asking Democratic leaders to support the resolution.
Langevin's Chief of Staff, Seth Klaiman, said it would be rash for the Congressman to endorse legislation that did not exist. So Langevin, unlike his fellow Rhode Island Representative David Cicilline, is not onboard with Ocasio-Cortez's New Green Deal.
2e. Plastic Bags
Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) announced Friday that the organization plans to push for legislation banning single-use plastic bags in all six New England states as part of its campaign to eliminate plastics in the region. The news comes as Boston's city-wide plastic bag ban takes effect today.
3a. Counselors not Cops
The Providence Student Union (PSU) kicked off their new campaign demanding an increase in school counselors and health care staff and the removal of the eight school resource officers (SROs) from Providence Schools.
"Cops are not necessary in schools, it makes students feel uncomfortable and can be replaced by alternatives such as safety teams or trained staff that know how to de escalate situations," said Providence Career & Technical Academy (PCTA) student and PSU member Aleita Cook. "Counselors and mental health workers are extremely important because there are students in school that go through mental health problems and don't know what to do about it. Students should not have to feel alone because they have no one to listen to them."
3b. Sandy Hook
The sixth vigil in as many years was held at the First Unitarian Church of Providence, marking the terrible events of December 14, 2012 at Sandy Hook Elementary School where 20 children, aged six and seven years, along with six adults, were fatally shot. That event was a wake up call for a United States plagued with guns and gun violence, even as such tragedies continue at other schools, at concerts, in nightclubs, in churches and in synagogues.
Scott Lapham, director of the One Gun Gone Project, gave an art performance in which a wax gun was melted down and transformed into a candle. Lapham was accompanied by his students, including Raul Velasquez, Edwin Pastor, Brandon Morales, Joseph Rocha and Ashley Rodriguez.
Reverend Maclay was joined by Reverend Jamie Washam from the First Baptist Church of Providence and artist Howie Sneider to present the Garden Spade and Root Shovel made from the firearms acquired last spring as part of the Guns to Plowshares program. The Reverends consecrated the tools "to the fulfillment of their new purpose."
3c. PLEE
Parents Leading for Educational Equity (PLEE)
"is a newly founded, parent-led, grassroots organization with a mission
to fight for parent voice in education decision-making, and for access
to a high-quality public school option for all children of color."
The group looks to:
- Leverage collective knowledge and power among Rhode Island families to exercise our right to advocate for high-quality public schools, policy decisions that impact our kids; and
- Demand the voice of parents in education decision-making at the local and state level; and
- Advocate for policies that positively impact outcomes for children of color; and
- Collaborate with other Rhode Island organizations aligned with PLEE's mission and vision.
3d. Judges
Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo has nominated a diverse set of six people to the bench.
"For whatever reasons, in my term as governor there's been a number of vacancies and so we are seizing upon the opportunity to put the most qualified people we can on the bench. Also making sure that they are people deeply committed to Rhode Island and that they look like the people who come before them," said Raimondo. "I'm very proud to be appointing one of the most diverse sets of judges, I think, really, ever, that any governor has been able to appoint at one time."
The six nominees will need to be approved by the Rhode Island State Senate, which should be a rubber stamp.
4a. Healthy Planet Cleaning Co-op
Health Planet Cleaning Co-Op (HPCC) was co-founded in May, 2018, incorporated under new legislation enacted in Rhode Island in January of this year. This is a new model of democratically owned business where the workers are the owners. Five people will manage the business, make all the decisions the business makes in a democratic manner and the owners of the business themselves will be the ones doing the work.
A celebration was held in Central Falls City Hall to announce the co-op. Central Falls Mayor James Diossa and Rhode Island Secretary of State Nellie Gorbea were in attendance.
HPCC is fully bonded and insured. The company uses eco-friendly cleaning products which are safer for the worker/owners to use and are "Home Safe / Pet Safe / Planet Safe." HPCC is available for commercial, industrial, residential, and post-construction cleaning jobs.
Health Planet Cleaning Co-Op is also the latest advertiser on Uprise RI!
4b. Workers Cooperative Academy
On Saturday, the Workers Cooperative Academy graduated its second class in a short ceremony held at Navigant Credit Union in Central Falls.
19 people graduated the class, and may be soon starting new cooperative businesses in Rhode Island.
The classes are organized by the POWER Network (People Owning Wider Economic Resources), a coalition of public, private, and non-profit partners that incubates worker-owned and -managed cooperatives.
5. Latino Policy Institute
The Latino Policy Institute (LPI) at Roger Williams University (RWU) on Wednesday announced that Marcela Betancur will become its new director on January 14.
6. House District 68 special election
Rhode Island Secretary of State Nellie Gorbea announced that there will be a special election in Representative District 68 to fill the seat of Representative Kenneth Marshall (Democrat) on Tuesday, March 5, 2019. Representative District 68 includes parts of Bristol and Warren.
7. Refugee Dream Center
The Refugee Dream Center, with a grant from the Department of Public Safety Grant Administration Office, has developed a program called Breaking Barriers, which will train refugees living in various communities within Rhode island to help deliver access to vital services, including mental health services, to vulnerable refugee communities.
"It's a combination of two ideas," said Refugee Dream Center Executive Director Omar Bah. "Survival leaders, [refugees] who survived the violence one way or another, and now they are supporting their own communities.
"At the Refugee Dream Center we model that, because most of us are former refugees, but on the weekends and at odd hours we are not home," continued Bah. "But it is very likely that Achmed or Kamal will be living in the same apartment building as other families, and those families can be seeking help at any time.
"So that's the grassroots approach were are modeling here."
8. George Wiley Center
Activists from the George Wiley Center stood outside the National Grid offices on Melrose Street in Providence Thursday afternoon to sing modified Christmas Carols with a serious point: They want National Grid to open a customer service center at the site.
"We're demanding that they open an office again," said Camilo Viveiros, coordinator at the George Wiley Center. "They have an office in Brooklyn, New York. We think there's no reason why New Yorkers should have it better than Rhode Islanders. We pay our bills just like they do in New York."
Here's "Away in an Apartment" to the tune of "Away in a Manger" :
9. Mental Health Parity Initiative
The Mental Health Association of Rhode Island (MHARI) launched its Rhode Island Parity Initiative (RIPI) last Thursday at Butler Hospital's Ray Conference Center. RIPI is a statewide public awareness campaign to educate and empower people to understand and assert their rights to health insurance coverage for mental health – including addiction – treatment and services.
"It is time for health insurers to stop the practice of stigmatizing mental illness," said Ruth Feder, MHARI executive director. "Mental illnesses are no less real, no less serious and, often, no less lethal than other medical conditions. We want every Rhode Islander to understand what parity means. Our goal is to arm Rhode Islanders with the basic knowledge of their rights to parity, how to assert those rights, and where to get assistance to assert them, if needed. By helping all to assert their right to equal treatment by insurers, we can make change."
10. Yemen
The entire Rhode Island delegation signed on to the War Powers Act for Yemen
11. Transit Forward RI 2040
Three Rhode Island agencies, the Rhode Island Public Transit Administration (RIPTA), the Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) and the Rhode Island Division of Planning, are collaborating on Transit Forward Rhode Island 2040, a project to "envision how our passenger transportation network should look and operate in the future."
The plan seeks to develop a transit vision for Rhode Island over the next two decades, identify the specific improvements needed to achieve the vision, identify potential new sources of funding for the improvements and identify governance changes that could help move the plan forward and improve service delivery.
12. Pre-emption
I write about pre-emption as much as I can.
See: Rhode Island is the only New England state relying on anti-labor, ALEC-inspired preemption clauses and Providence wants to regulate firearms, so the state needs to repeal preemption
Writing for the Economic Policy Institute, Marni von Wilbert defines "preemption" as "a situation in which a state law is enacted to block a local ordinance from taking effect or [to] dismantle an existing ordinance." In the same piece von Wilbert writes, "conservative state legislators have increasingly used preemption laws to strike down local government efforts to increase the quality of life for working people in their municipalities."
When it comes to gun laws, Rhode Island is not alone in having an overzealous State legislature taking control from local municipalities. As Jennifer Mascia points out in The Trace:
In Much of the Country, Cities Can't Enact Their Own Gun Laws
Here's what you need to know about NRA-backed pre-emption laws, which limit local regulation of firearms.
13. Atheism
New research finds that bias against candidates who don't believe in God has notably weakened. A poll conducted by Lake Research Partners for the American Humanist Association and the Center for Freethought Equality and funded by the Stiefel Freethought Foundation shows that being nonreligious, agnostic, or atheist need not be considered an impediment to a candidate's electoral success.
14. Foxy Lady
A letter seeking signers is opposed to the December 11th arrest of three sex workers by undercover law enforcement officers for charges of soliciting for prostitution at the Foxy Lady in Providence.
"The raid on the Foxy Lady confirms that Rhode Island law enforcement's policing of sex workers serves to harass and intimidate workers under the guise of protection. This raid is a grotesque misuse of taxpayer dollars to oppress adult women whose only alleged crime is selling services to consenting adults in a private location."
You can read the letter in it's entirety here, and sign on if you are so inclined.
15. Sinclair Media
"Last March, Frank Coletta and Alison Bologna, anchors at WJAR, the NBC affiliate station in Rhode Island, gave a speech on air decrying 'false news' as a national threat. Meanwhile, people around the country—in Seattle, Baltimore, San Antonio, and many other cities—watched anchors make an identical statements. All of the anchors worked for stations owned by Sinclair, the largest television station operator in America (Sinclair purchased WJAR in 2014). Sinclair called the script an "anchor-delivered journalistic responsibility message," and mandated that anchors at each station read the script on air.
"Sinclair management wrote a script telling the anchors to introduce themselves and then say they were 'extremely proud of the quality, balanced journalism that [proper news brand name of local station] produces.' The speech then launched into criticism of the media, echoing comments from President Trump: 'The sharing of biased and false news has become all too common on social media…Unfortunately, some members of the national media are using their platforms to push their own personal bias and agenda to control exactly what people think.'" …
Talking Heads: Sinclair and rising conservative influence in RI media by Alina Kulman at the College Hill Independent
16. Bartholomewtown Podcast
Dr. Wendy Schiller (Chair, Brown University Department of Political Science)
Dr Wendy Schiller is Chairwoman of Brown University's political science department, where she instructs students in poli-sci and international and public affairs.
Hilary Levey Friedman (President, RI NOW)
Hilary Levey Friedman teaches courses in Brown University's Department of Education, and is also an author and the President of The Rhode Island chapter of The National Organization for Women.
Eight state-based and national advocacy organizations – including the ACLU of RI, the NAACP Providence Branch, the National Employment Law Center, and JustLeadershipUSA – have sharply criticized the Rhode Island Department of Health (DOH) for a "disturbing trend" of "undermining a major goal of criminal justice reform by increasing the barriers for people with past criminal records or substance use disorders to obtain professional licensing." The five-page letter to DOH Director Dr. Nicole Alexander-Scott highlights several recent Department rule enactments or re-adoptions that the groups say unfairly allow for the disqualification of people with any criminal record from obtaining professional licenses in a number of fields – ranging from EMTs to midwives to physical therapy assistants…
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