Forty percent of Arkansas’ COVID19 cases are prisoners. In a Marion, Ohio prison, more than 1800 prisoners and 100 guards have tested positive for novel Coronavirus. That is 73% of the inmates in that prison. Although prisons and jails are hotspots for the novel Coronavirus across the country, Arizona has no clue what in happening in … Read more
Political Prince of Darkness-Enemy of the People-Obstructionist in Chief-Legislative Grim Reaper-Moscow Mitch McConnell made the rounds on right-wing media (Hugh Hewit and Fox Island,) doubling down on his comments to Politico the day before on opposing aid to state and local governments combatting the Coronavirus and suffering economic repercussions from it. He even suggested states … Read more
It’s been exactly a month since the Arizona Legislature adjourned on March 23. Jim and I have been social distancing, sheltering in place, cooking three meals a day, limiting shopping trips, and wearing masks and gloves when we do go out. We are healthy, and I hope you are, too. There have been protests recently … Read more
It’s not often that one of the world’s leading medical journals delivers a damning indictment of an American president, but that is what The Lancet has done in an editorial. COVID-19 in the USA: a question of time: With more than 600,000 confirmed cases and close to 27,000 deaths, the USA has become the current … Read more
By Michelle Shaw It’s Earth Day, and we are in the midst of a global pandemic. Nothing will make you contemplate the Earth’s health as quickly as watching her spring back to life as 180,000 of your global citizens have lost their battle to simply breathe and fall victim to the Coronavirus pandemic. It’s almost … Read more