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By: Fred Barcon It’s with utter astonishment that I write yet another editorial. The Tri-City Regional Sanitary Board (TRSD) marches forward with their project, despite proof from neutral third-party engineering firm, Kimley-Horn, that concurs with what I have been pointing out for over 4 years. A third wastewater treatment plant …
Op-Ed/Letters
July, 2020
June, 2020
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3 June
White Like Me
By: Diane Post At sixteen, I was traumatized in a ghetto in Chicago when I was there on a two-week work-study event with the Presbyterian Church. We twenty white and rural kids from Wisconsin went to the big city to meet and work with Black teenagers as a step toward dissolving …
May, 2020
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23 May
Resilence
by R.J. Ladd I suppose that for some, the current Corona Virus-19 is the first real crisis they’ve experience. For quite some time, I have been curious about why so many in the “greatest generation,” those who are now in their 80’s, 90’s and some even over 100-years-old, know about …
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21 May
Barcon says Board should not move forward with plans for third plant
By: Fred Barcon On May 18, 2020, the Tri-City Regional Sanitary District (TRSD) Board passed a motion to move forward with their plans to build a third wastewater treatment plant. Many of you are familiar with my past editorials, in which I point out several flaws with the TRSD …
April, 2020
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24 April
Frustration with federal funding programs outlined by non-profit director
I’m part of a small business, a nonprofit that serves some of the most vulnerable people in our community. Like most small businesses in our community, we’ve been substantially impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. We are seeing an increase in demand for our support services, and we are working diligently …
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20 April
This Earth Day sees unprecedented rollback of environmental regulations.
Hidden Effect of the Coronavirus While the nation is coping with coronavirus impacts and precautions, countless Americans are dealing with new realities such as unemployment, food scarcity, and isolation through social distancing. For most of us, this means prioritizing the things in our lives that mean the most such as …
March, 2020
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23 March
A window of opportunity and the need to act
A new website made the rounds this weekend on social media – it uses data and modeling to predict the final window of opportunity that local governments have to flatten the curve and avoid swamping their healthcare system with COVID-19 patients. For Arizona, that window is March 29 through April …
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22 March
After a heart attack in the midst of Covid-19
When everything seems so out of sync and surreal, it feels good to just stop for a minute and laugh! In a previous life I lived in Israel and I still have family and friends there. Last week The Times of Israel published a piece that a friend of mine …
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15 March
A Prayer for Action
“Pray, people! God is the only one who can truly make a difference in all of our country’s issues.” I saw this recently come through my Facebook feed and believe it might be something that resonates with more than just this one person. It came on the heels of a …
February, 2020
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22 February
A generational perspective: Not my first rodeo
By Kathrine Nakumura “This isn’t my first rodeo,” my mother asserted when I tried to give her the recipe for a bleach solution as cleaning agent against COVID-19. Not sure what she meant by that, I was just glad that, after returning from the hospital to her home in Hemet …
