A wall is an immorality. It is not who we are as a nation. The president has been clear he wants Border Security and until he gets it well have to stay in a shutdown. He doesnt want them to know how hes hurting them and keeps the subject on the wall. Hes a master of diversion. We have Government Shutdown. Where are their priorities . We gave them an opportunity to show their priorities. Not doing a wall. Does anybody have a doubt . We are not doing a wall. The wall they should be worried about is not the wall at the south border but wall street. Jobs, jobs, jobs. The u. S. Economy adding 312,000 jobs in december, a powerful end to a strong year for the economy. But the stock market is not the economy. Its a doubleedged sword as far as the number is concerned. The market rallied on word that the u. S. And china resuming trade talks. Because of this correction, theres an awful lot of pessimism. There is no recession coming. There is no recession in sight. All right. Im going to talk to y
I think of this issue as a sort of progress report on three of the biggest issues facing the Western United States: climate change, homelessness and the wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.
Barely a week into his administration, President Joe Biden hit pause on selling leases for oil and gas drilling on public lands. Of course, as Carl Segerstrom tells us, old hands in the West are fully aware that doesn’t mean the drilling will stop. It does, however, signal a welcome shift in policy.
Balbir Singh drives a tractor in Karm Baim’s orchard in Gridley, California, where Punjabi American people have farmed for more than a century.
“Home” is our focus this month how shelter and connection to place define our lives and the lives of the people around us. This feels especially compelling right now, with a global pandemic forcing us to stay inside, or perhaps, if we’re essential workers, to live away from home.
Lissette Lopez rides her bike in the strong wind that blows in her neighborhood in Salton City, near California’s Salton Sea.
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2020 has shifted our idea of what makes a home. It used to be that the list of necessary rooms included kitchen, bathroom, bedroom. You can add “office” to that now. Thanks to ubiquitous Zoom meetings and television shows, we’ve all become voyeurs, peeking inside the homes of others, checking out their books or beds or kitchens as they work, intimate yet far away. The freedom to work remotely has had serious economic consequences, which we break down in our Facts & Figures department. Check out the eye-popping numbers that accompany