At 5:12 a.m. on April 18, 1906, the northernmost 296 miles of the San Andreas fault ruptured. The shaking and ensuing fires destroyed half of San Francisco, […]
Author: Opinion, The Dominion Post
Property dispute seemingly forgotten but not yet forgiven
To quote Monty Python’s Flying Circus: And now for something completely different. While the whole world (including us) has been monitoring the novel coronavirus situation here and […]
How social distancing is bringing us together
As the coronavirus stops normal life, trapping more Americans in their homes, some have raised the specter of another health threat: Loneliness. Before this crisis seized our […]
Sent into battle without armor
It has gotten so bad that hospital workers are now making their own masks. On March 17, workers from Providence St. Joseph Health gathered on a makeshift […]
Stimulus stalled in Senate as leaders let America down
At the time of this writing, Phase 3 of Congress’s coronavirus bailouts still hangs in partisan limbo. The current stimulus bill has been stalled in the Senate […]
An economic lesson to be learned from coronavirus
If anything good can come from the coronavirus pandemic, it is the revelation of America’s overreliance on China, especially when it comes to drugs. Interviewed by NBC […]
Handling the first week of no school
I started the week determined to become the perfect home-schooling parent. What could possibly go wrong? My great-niece, who lives with me, would work on her laptop. […]
Justice’s Saturday speech clear as mud; Monday not as bad
Bless his heart, but Justice is not a great orator. True, in a time like this, actions speak louder than words. But by the same token, in […]
Stop passing the blame: Viruses do not carry passports
Viruses do not carry passports. Nor do they have birth certificates or other markers of citizenship. So the insistence of Donald Trump and other Republicans upon identifying […]
Shame leaders who treat coronavirus as a joke
President Donald Trump is not the only populist leader who initially minimized the coronavirus pandemic, wasting precious time to prepare his country for the crisis. Several Latin […]