Kern County immigration raid offers glimpse into new reality for farmworkers
Kern County, California – US Border Patrol agents in the U.S. El Centro Sector launched a three-day raid on rural Kern County territory, resulting in more than six weeks of undocumented worker scores being detained and deported. It’s been a while. An unusual job took place over 300 miles from El Centro near the US-Mexican […]
Heritage Days offers a glimpse into history
Contribution article PIMA — The Eastern Arizona Museum & Graham County Historical Society in Pima displays many relics of tools and machines used in the 19th and 20th centuries. Most of them were manual or animal-powered and had not been used for decades.Thousands of museum visitors only looked with interest over the years.However, self-taught blacksmiths […]
California’s Devastating Storms Are a Glimpse of the Future
On the morning of January 10, 1862, businessman and railroad tycoon Leland Stanford, who later lent his name to Stanford University, left his mansion in downtown Sacramento and walked about five blocks away. I was on my way to the State Capitol. Stanford was preparing to take office as the eighth Governor of California. But […]
