What you need to know, October 6, 2025: Covid again
We know a good deal more about long Covid than we did during the epidemic. However, we seem strangely unable to think clearly about this new knowledge. The consequences are not to be sneezed at.
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Hiking Down the Ridge Trail
After the rains greened the landscape and temperatures diminished, we started hiking more. The Ridge Trail is one of our favorite. It starts at Emory Pass and goes down to Kingston. It affords fabulous views.
Laid off at 40, Grigulevich reinvents himself as an author of popular Russian nonfiction about South America
Moscow, 1954-1988, With no job prospects in Moscow, Grigulevich begins to write about South America and the Roman Catholic Church, and finds an enthusiastic audience among young Russians interested in the outside world.
What you need to know, September 28, 2025: Jupiter Project
Doña Ana County has approved the construction in Santa Teresa (near El Paso) of the $165 billion Jupiter Project. What does that mean?
Costa Rican couple make a big splash in Roman diplomatic circles, then disappear
Rome, 1948-53. In the most outrageous covert act in the history of espionage, Josif and Laura fake their way into Roman diplomatic society by impersonating wealthy Costa Rican coffee merchants.
Back in Buenos Aires, Yuz settles in with Laura while firebombing German-bound ships
Argentina again, 1941-47: Grigulevich begins his war on Nazis by sabotaging a bookstore, then ships in Buenos Aires harbor heading to Germany. He and Laura head to Brazil after war ends.
T or C will ask for $3 million in capital outlay for top 5 capital projects
Hooray! Transparency comes to the city's capital outlay lobbying process, thanks to City Manager Gary Whitehead. The city will be much more prepared for the legislative session and city commissioners, lobbyist and staff will all be singing from the same sheet of music. Add your voice to the chorus.
Gatekeeper murdered, Siqueiros arrested, Grigulevich splits and another Stalin agent kills Trotsky
Mexico, 1940-41: After the raid, gatekeeper found dead, Siqueiros heads to the hills, Grigulevich returns to Santa Fe with new lover, and another Stalin assassin kills Trotsky with ice axe.
T or C city commission approves $150,000 settlement over death of five-year-old Shaquille Ferguson Jr.
The city's police department, between chiefs of police, didn't investigate calls reporting Ferguson Sr.'s child abuse of his son, which made the city liable for his death.
Mexico was a caldron of communism when Trotsky showed up, but its artists were in disagreement
Mexico, 1940. Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo welcomed Trotsky to Mexico, but David Siqueiros and his muralists planned to scare him away by raiding his compound.
Just to be clear
Everyone agrees that America changed with the election and re-election of our present President, but they all disagree about what that change is and if the change is good, bad, or ugly. My two-cents worth is that American eugenics has changed to pop-eugenics, and pop-eugenics rules the day.
`Yuz’ accuses New York KGB spies of corruption. sloppy tradecraft and Trotskyism
New York, late 1938 to early 1939. Intercepted spy cables detail how Grigulevich attacked the credibility of the 'legal' Soviet agents in New York, resulting in the office ehief being executed..