Day July 4, 2003

115 in Baghdad Weather.com says it will be 115 in Baghdad for at least the next week. Large parts of the city still have intermittent electricity and water. People are forced to sleep on roofs to escape the heat. US…

Davis recall proponents say they have enough signatures What’s more, they claim “enough signatures to put the issue of recalling the Democratic governor on the ballot in November“, bad news for Gov. Gray Davis A November recall election, rather than…

Collapsing milk prices Milk prices are at historic lows in Vermont and are staying there. Many Vermont dairy farms are shutting down. As many as 200 could close this year. Some family friends run a diary farm in Vermont. We’ve…

Bad Moon Rising RCP has just released Bad Moon rising, a website and newspaper supplement about the current assault on civil rights in the US. It’s serious, militant, and unsettling.Cool arty versionStraight html version

FACTS I just became webmaster for FACTS (Families to Amend California’s Three Strikes), and spent the past two days reorganizing the site. The site has an extraordinary wealth of information, several hundred pages worth in fact! The challenge was to…