By Mike Shea Cedar Ridge As you may have heard, a Canadian company, Rise Gold Corporation, and its subsidiary Rise Grass Valley, Inc. (Rise GV), have filed an application with Nevada County for a permit to reopen the Idaho Maryland gold mine. I wanted to know as much as possible about the proposed operation,…
By Mike Shea This concerns Rise Grass Valley‘s (Rise GV) application with Nevada County for a permit to reopen the Idaho-Maryland gold mine. If your house is on a well and you live in the Cedar Ridge area or in the vicinity of Brunswick, Greenhorn, Loma Rica, Town Talk, and Idaho-Maryland roads, reopening the…
I received this email from the Bear-Yuba land Trust yesterday: Friends of BYLT, This is one of the most important letters we will ever write. We would like to alert you to a serious community threat that is upon us if we do not act now. In the past year, two critical organic agricultural…
In the most detailed study to date of epidemic spread, researchers have modeled measles dynamics based on over 40 years of data collected in England and Wales. POSTED BY SAM SHOLTIS-PENN STATE (This article is reprinted in Sierra Voices Journal under the Attribution 4.0 International license). The models—which span the prevaccination period, introduction of measles…
But the Pandemic Is Patriarchal By Rebecca Gordon Reprinted with permission from Tomdispatch.com Before I found myself “sheltering in place,” this article was to be about women’s actions around the world to mark March 8th, International Women’s Day. From Pakistan to Chile, women in their millions filled the streets, demanding that we be able to control our bodies…