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Well, thus is sad.  The rather wonderful and reliable web hosts who've kept NCVoices.us up (along with journo101.com and warming101.co...

Tuesday Aug. 18 update: It was *really* underperforming, it turns out I broke it late Sunday night (Aug 16; obvious advice: do not mess with...

Some years back I handed off my e-bike (UrbanMover Sprite electric-assist) on long-term loan to a friend of a friend who wanted to use it ...

I'll try to fix it this weekend. March 2 update on fixing  ncvoices.us :  It's mostly working again, though there's still mor...

No, I don't live in Nevada County anymore.  Yes, many of the posts in this blog are crap.  (Whether they were equally so when I posted ...

Meeting: Sat. April 13, 2013, League of Women Voters of Nevada County ( link ); a 4-person panel presentation and Q and A on "living g...

... although you wouldn't know it from NCVoices , whose script isn't parsing her blog feed correctly (the post "Resisting the ...

(revised Oct 6,8) You may know that November is NaNoWriMo , National Novel Writing Month, for those so inclined; according to this LA Times...

Why Campaign Reporters Are Behind the Curve "This is why [even non-science parts of] newspapers are worth reading," - me (*)

Click for the animation: Uncertainty is not our friend. The risk can be greater than models suggest: for Arctic sea ice, the loss is hap...

Lesson #234567:  When you submit a letter to the editor, suggest a title for it.

I'm one person and there's too #$%^& much to do, most of it far more important than this, but I think it's worth at least la...

This is why NPR deserves our support - in an hour or so, asking good, open-ended Qs and then letting his guest talk, Fresh Air host David ...

Apologies for any failures to attend or respond... connections are spotty, so please be patient.

What does the future hold for our rivers?   Are our river protectors aware? From the [U.K.] Independent, Heatwave turns America's wate...