Posted October 16, 2020 from Seattle WA The ad featured in this blog should be in the Sunday Seattle Times this week (Oct 18, 2020.) In the ad I endorse Joe Biden (and implicitly Kamala Harris) and thank him for his reluctance to sign on with the...
BirdLife International blasts Europe’s so-called “Green Deal” Posted July 1, 2020 By making a devilish alliance with an industry, environmental leaders are stealing any hope the Earth has left to halt climate change. Somewhere, somehow, agricultural biofuels and biomass (burning wood) got an early and permanent blessing...
Posted May 6, 2020 from Seattle Publishing, like blogging can be done safely during a shutdown so I have prepped and labored and am happy to say I have 10 new prints that I am very excited about. They can be found at 6 x 8...
Posted from Seattle, WA on Earth Day, April 22, 2020. The head tax is a bad idea. It runs up against a law of microeconomics, that cannot be rescinded by elected officials. That is the law of the downward-sloping-demand-curve that says that if you tax something,...
posted on Jan 31, 2020 from Seattle, WA. Ad opposing the LCFS to run in Sunday Seattle Times, Feb 23 All that Glitters is not Green is the headline. The kicker is "Low-carbon fuel standard is bad policy." Here is the text: With the Creation in peril,...
Photo of pair of Elegant Terns from American Bird Conservancy Posted January 17, 2020 from Seattle, WA When I posted this blog on January 17, 2020, I titled it, "God ordered the birds to multiply; Virginia takes steps to disallow it." Well, thanks to the efforts...
Carroll Dwayne Littlefield Carroll Dwayne Littlefield 1940-2019 Wildlife Biologist, Sandhill Crane defender and author Carroll Dwayne Littlefield passed away unexpectedly on May 28 of a heart attack at his home in the Peloncillo Mountains of New Mexico. While C.D. had receded from public life over the past 17 years, his memory...
posted from Seattle on April 28, 2019 I'm running an ad in the Seattle Times in the A-section on Sunday May 5. The ad will make a case for buying electric cars for a reason that is rarely if ever advanced in the public sphere: to...
Posted from Seattle, WA on Dec. 20, 2018 I'm running the ad shown above in the Seattle Times A-section Friday, 2018. Ringed Kingfisher at Benson State Park on the Rio Grande. This is in the vast area that would be chopped off from the US. Photo...
Posted from Seattle, WA on December 8, 2018. I believe voters in Washington should be alarmed or at least deeply concerned by the plans the Washington state Department of Transportation is hatching to replace the gas tax with a mileage tax.Posted from Seattle, WA on...
Posted from Seattle Nov. 7 2018 I'll be running the above ad in the Seattle Times on Sunday Nov. 11 A-section. What follows is not the most concise and cogent argument on the subject. That might be at this link to the Seattle Nature Alliance.org's post on...
Posted from Seattle WA on October 6, 2018 I am running the above ad in the Seattle Times A-section for Sunday, October 7, 2018. What inspired me to run yet another ad against the Wall was this: An article in the National Wildlife Federation's magazine confronts the damage...
Posted from Seattle, WA on April 23, 2018. An ad I'm running in the Seattle Times A-section on Sunday, April 29, opposes the First Avenue Streetcar. Here is the ad, which is pretty self-explanatory. I compare the Streetcar to the 56 year old Monorail and find the...
Posted from Seattle WA on Jan 15, 2018 I am running an ad in the Seattle Times on Tuesday, January 16, A-section, that makes a nonpartisan plea to America to take the wall off the table, essentially calling it an unacceptably unpatriotic idea that insults the...
Posted from Seattle, WA on December 11, 2017 I am running an ad in the Seattle Times A-section on Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017 that is critical of the per mile tax. Here is the wording: The Gas Tax is a carbon tax and it’s not broken Per Mile tax...
Posted from Seattle, WA on November 13, 2017 I am running another ad in the Seattle Times November 14, 2017 against the Trump Wall, shown above. Also, I visited the border country in the lower Rio Grande valley in 2015. Here is the blog I did, “We...
posted October 2, 2017 from Seattle, WA The ad shown above is scheduled to run in the Seattle Times on Tuesday, October 3 2017, A section. (Ads have much longer timelines than news stories. There is anguish on my part over the tragic event in Los Vegas...
Posted from Seattle, WA on Sept. 4 2017 I'm running an ad in the Seattle Times Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017 that attempts to draw attention to the fact that the border wall is predicated on a mischaracterization. It's not on the border, it's far on the...
Posted from Seattle, WA on August 14, 2017 I'm running an ad in the Seattle Times Tuesday, August 15, 2017 that attempts to draw attention to the massive land giveaway that is the border wall. It also makes a note of the wall's collision with the...
Posted from Seattle, WA on May 19, 2017 I will be running the ad shown above in the Seattle Times A-section on Tuesday, May 23, 2017. If I were reading the ad the first thing I would like to know is where the citation for the opening...
Posted from Seattle on Nov. 29, 2016 The text of the ad reads: In an often-repeated unconstitutional property-rights abuse, the Dakota Access pipeline owner was gifted with the kingly power of eminent domain to take land from unwilling Americans. This subsidy unlevels the playing field, & distorts...
Posted October 9, 2016 from Seattle, WA I’m running an ad for Initiaitive 732 on Sunday, today in the A—section of the Seattle Times. For more information on I-732, here is the campaign’s website: Yes on I-732 YES ON I-732 Act NOW on climate change...