Month January 2005

Hotel strike during DC inauguration?

DC hotels, workers break off talks Contract talks between the local hotel union and 14 large D.C. hotels ended abruptly last night as negotiators for the hotels refused to increase their pay and benefits offer, complicating efforts to avoid a…

Mt. Haleakala

This 10,000 volcanic mountain on Maui is dormant, but not extinct. These photos were taken from the top, where the winds at times were 60 mph with a temperature of 49. Hypothermia weather indeed. A park ranger told me the…

Newsweek gets it right

Their cover story on the US plan to send death squads to Iraq to kill insurgents is titled “Death Squad Democracy.” They oppose it, which shows that antiwar sentiment has indeed reached the mainstream. A seasoned veteran explains why this…