“I happened to be in the D.C. area when the offices of the U.S. Agency for International Development were closed.”

With an estimated crowd of 1,100 to 1,300 individuals, the event was less a unified political statement and more a cacophony of conflicting messages and uncoordinated activism.

It is startling to see the huge impact of the employment of illegal and other immigrants on job opportunities for American men.

In the United States, the balance of power has historically oscillated between various groups, shaped by economic, political, and social forces. One of the most dramatic shifts in recent times occurred with the election of Donald Trump in 2016, and again recently in 2024, which many interpret as a significant realignment from traditional power structures dominated by elites and bureaucracy to a more populist, people-centric model.

There is no “internal audit position” within Nevada County despite its critical importance to a well-functioning decentralized governance system. The Board of Supervisors rejected the re-creation of an internal audit position during post-COVID budget cuts. Recent Grand Jury reports highlighted significant fraud risks, leaving taxpayer money vulnerable.

In the fall of 2024, Nevada City adopted a resolution calling for a ceasefire between Israel and Palestine. Members of the public are now pressuring the City of Grass Valley to do the same. Should the Grass Valley city council adopt a resolution on an international issue? 

A 42% payroll expense in one year with big percentage raises each year is unsustainable, especially in light of the downturn in state funding. Given the outrageously high salaries of senior executive staff and elected officials, the tax-paying public is questioning the rationale of the Nevada County CEO Alison Lehman.

Early in the morning on January 20, 2025, President Joe Biden issued “preemptive pardons” to many individuals, including members of his own family.

“Gina Will should return the public’s money of $50,000 and resign.'“

“Breastfeeding is in the news again — that’s good!” said Tompson. “There is a reason for this happening. When things get so upside down, that means a change is coming.”

“What was perceived as weak leadership on the world stage contributed to public discontent.”

A trustworthy election system must be robust against human error, machine error, and exploitation. Analysis of Shasta County’s audit logs from the 2024 March Primary leaves more questions than answers.

The CDC, unlike other major agencies, has never received full Congressional authorization. There is no single enabling statute that defines the agency’s overall mission and structure. The lack of authorization has blurred the lines on the agency’s responsibilities to lead on issues related to communicable disease, resulted in rampant mission creep, and has led many to question whether the CDC is able to execute on its intended and primary mission of detecting and combatting public health threats, as evidenced by the CDC’s botched handling of the COVID-19 response.

“Artificial intelligence quacks are pseudo medical practitioners who promote fraudulent ‘healthcare’ treatments for ill-gotten gains.”

Nevada County Health and Human Services still uses the CDC recommendation of COVID vaccines for children despite overwhelming evidence showing children are low-risk. I have asked our county health department and Dr. Sherilyn Cooke to update current data regarding the necessity of boosters on the website. There has been zero response.

“If your goal is to have a different outcome in the future, I believe this can only be accomplished through empathy and understanding, not through sharing Facebook memes and posts that only speak to people who already agree with you and alienate everyone who feels otherwise.”

The study of German Reunification and the agreements and statements among the stakeholders at the time can shed light on how the world arrived at a war in Ukraine more than three decades after German Reunification and the collapse of the former Soviet Union. This post introduces the research topic and outlines the research methodology to be used to answer questions about this transformative period in both American and Russian history.

In Nevada County we experienced these failed policies in the messaging of our local Health Department, and newly hired Public Health Officer, Dr. Sherilyn Cooke, who unquestionably supported CDC’s faulty science and wouldn’t budge when updated science was presented to them. Instead, there was strict adherence to “science” that turned out to be deeply flawed. The CDC’s failures to update recommendations and guidance, given new information was repeated locally, the messaging being only, “get vaccinated, keep boosting.”

I was astonished to learn that our CEO, Alison Lehman, and County Counsel, Kit Elliot, took it upon themselves to transfer $50,000 of public resources to Gina Will’s Campaign Committee, thus circumventing public Board of Supervisor approval and public comment. Since I believe the transfer of funds was potentially illegal, I penned the following letter to our District Attorney’s office.

In the book The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492, Alfred Crosby demonstrates that, while the obvious exchange between the Old World and the New World is its people going back and forth, such a view, which focuses only on the bodies of the people, is very narrow and omits the exchange of the culture of the peoples and the massive biological transfer between the Old and New World.