A few weeks ago, I directed readers to an article in the Australian online news source Pearls and Irritations. Here I link to another of their publications: John Frew’s article addressing an issue in Australia but completely applicable to public discourse in America.
What if the racial purification ideas hiding in the slogan of making America great again were feasible, that eugenics through forced sterilization and euthanasia could produce a new race of people were true?
I must admit that I have found it hard to write for the last year, ever since the Election of November 6, 2024. Many have asked me where my voice has been, and I say, "It is lost," It is their prod to speak again and this is the beginning.
The article inside on Steve Pearce being appointed by Trump to head the Bureau of Land Management was written by Jim Pattiz, who is a filmmaker and founder of More Than Just Parks. He has given his permission to the Citizen to reprint his article.
It's been almost a dozen years since a Democrat became a Sierra County Commissioner. Hopefully a plurality of views will now be entertained at the county level as a result.
Copper Flat Mine's efforts to reopen over the last 15 years have been supported via resolutions passed by Truth or Consequences city commissions in the past and by the current mayor's passivity and "trust."
Is it just coincidence that Day's resignation and federal job start coincides with the likely end of the government shutdown?
Copper Flat Mine will use tons of water, loads of electricity, will dump tons of damp tailings with lead, mercury, sulfates, nitrates and other contaminants as well as creating dust and air pollution with these same contaminants. A boom/bust operation lasting maybe 20 but probably 12 years.
Rumors are said to be like mills. They go around and around and grind the natural grains of wheat into powdery flour so that humans can digest them. Here is an example of a rumor mill: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/23/venezuela-tren-de-aragua-gang-police.
Sierra County, being at the bottom of the producer-consumer feeding chain, is more dependent on the world than most other parts of America. Yet, locally, we think we are an independent world to ourselves. We are not. Let me introduce you to how Australian policy thinkers view American news.
Yesterday, I was attacked going out of my driveway by my neighbor’s dog. The standoff lasted half an hour before I was able to make her back off, but I was confined to my house the rest of the day, not wanting to confront her snarling and yapping lunges 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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