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The Second Year Can Be Most Difficult

Posted on August 9, 2022 by Popular Economics Weekly

Answering Kennedy’s Call Chapter Four It was becoming obvious that I wasn’t tolerating village life well by the end of my second year in Ismet Pasha, a village settled by Bulgarian Turks in the 1920s after the breakup of the … Continue reading →

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Cesar Chavez and The United Farmworkers of America

Posted on August 6, 2022 by Popular Economics Weekly

Answering Kennedy’s Call Chapter Seven I had heard of the United Farmworkers Union several years earlier while working as a television news cameraman for KTTV Channel 11, a Sacramento TV station. One shoot was a weekend special report on the … Continue reading →

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‘Armed and Ready’…for What?

Posted on August 2, 2022 by Popular Economics Weekly

Answering Kennedy’s Call NYTimes.com The NY Times front-page picture of a teacher “armed and ready” to wear a gun in her classroom shocked and disheartened me. I remember the fear I felt as a small child hunkering under classroom desks … Continue reading →

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Failure of the Bully Mentality

Posted on July 20, 2022 by Popular Economics Weekly

Answering Kennedy’s Call UvaldeSchoolDistrict/AP We need no more evidence than the Uvalde Elementary school massacre that the gun-toting male machismo of the NAR and extreme gun rights advocates doesn’t protect children or adults, Adults with military weaponry and tactical gear … Continue reading →

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Putin’s Czarist Delusions

Posted on July 20, 2022 by Popular Economics Weekly

Answering Kennedy’s Call Letter to New York Times I cannot agree with Tatiana Stanovaya’s implicit conclusion in her article on Putin and the Kremlin’s delusionary behavior (July 19 Op-ed) —that we must fear a nuclear holocaust if we don’t placate … Continue reading →

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The Great Clean Air Debate–Part II

Posted on July 1, 2022 by Popular Economics Weekly

Answering Kennedy’s Call Chapter Six Environmental Protection Could be Hazardous At the time, I remember thinking environmental protection should not mean crawling down the partially opened rear stairs of a Boeing 727 passenger jet into a muddy field at San … Continue reading →

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Developing a Livable Community

Posted on June 28, 2022 by Popular Economics Weekly

Answering Kennedy’s Call What are the requirements for a livable community? As recently as 2005, the Institute of American Architects said that “. . . broadly speaking, a livable community recognizes its own unique identity and places a high value … Continue reading →

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Goleta’s Dam Dinner is Back!

Posted on June 22, 2022 by Popular Economics Weekly

Answering Kennedy’s Call Noozhawk What better way to show the love of your city than the announcement of a unique event that had been suspended for three years due to COVID-19? Goleta, a city just 20 years old, announced that … Continue reading →

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What is a Livable City?

Posted on June 17, 2022 by Popular Economics Weekly

Building Community Answering Kennedy’s Call Chapter Twelve I and several others living in Santa Barbara and the Goleta Valley were interested in a more ecologically friendly and less auto-dependent community. Drs. Susanne Lennard, architect, and her husband, child psychologist Henry … Continue reading →

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America’s (Ongoing) Civil War

Posted on May 31, 2022 by Popular Economics Weekly

Answering Kennedy’s Call Why should it be a surprise that Americans are still fighting the Civil War? Though it is no longer Generals Ulysses S Grant vs. Robert E Lee, it is still being fought with guns, as the latest … Continue reading →

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