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Judi Bari exhibit opens at Willits museum, including bombed car and public talks

By Marty Durlin • Sep 23, 2021

It's been more than 31 years since Earth First! forest activist Judi Bari was car-bombed in Oakland, leaving her with severe injuries. Bari, who died in 1997, willed her twisted, ruined car to the Mendocino County Museum in Willits, and last week the museum opened an exhibit titled The Bombing of Judi Bari: 30 Years Later, Mendocino County Remembers. The exhibit features the car and a number of artifacts, as well as public talks and a concert.

Clear-cut at research center: "We're running out of good choices to make"

By Sarah Reith • Sep 21, 2021

September 21, 2021 — PG&E’s failure to maintain its equipment and the vegetation around its infrastructure has led to massive conflagrations in the past few years. Now the company is trying to clear fire hazards around its lines in high fire risk areas. But are they going too far? And is the enhanced vegetation management program even effective? The program is exempt from environmental review and forest practices rules, so those answers won’t be available for some time.

Former Mendocino resident Troy Springer publishes novel

By Marty Durlin • Sep 20, 2021

Yoga teacher, healer and now, novelist: former Little River resident Troy Springer has written a dystopian/utopian novel titled Beyond Mortal: Stewards of Gaia. Set 300 years after a climate apocalypse wipes out most life on the planet, the book reflects Troy's childhood in Michigan, the set of values her parents taught her, her background as a yogini and healer in Canada, and the current challenge of climate change.

USFS temporarily halts prescribed burns

By Sonia Waraich • Sep 20, 2021

9/20/21 — The U.S. Forest Service isn't currently allowing prescribed fires on its land because of high fire risk and limited firefighting resources across the country. A group of 40 fire and forest ecologists sent the Forest Service chief a letter saying that wasn't the right move. Even though the chief hasn't responded to the letter, U.S. Forest Service employees like Angela Chongpinitchai, Mendocino National Forest's fire planner and fuels specialist, are actively working to increase the use of prescribed fire in their forests.

Mendocino National Forest reopens to the public

By Sonia Waraich • Sep 17, 2021

9/17/21 — The U.S. Forest Service has reopened Mendocino National Forest and 12 of the other 18 national forests in the state at midnight Thursday after a historic two-week closure prompted by high fire risk and limited firefighting resources.

This was the second time in the Forest Service’s 116-year history that it closed public access to all its trails and campgrounds in California. Forest Service spokesperson Samantha Reho spoke to KZYX about what factors went into the decision-making process.

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Henry Giroux

By Joy LaClaire • Sep 15, 2021

To hear this interview with McMaster University Professor, Henry Giroux, and to find links to articles referenced or pertinent to it, click on this link: https://forthright.media/2021/09/15/henry-giroux-2/

Good Ancestors and Local Treasures with Corine Pearce!

By Alicia Bales • Sep 8, 2021

September 6, 2021--Corine Pearce hosts this inaugural edition of "Good Ancestors and Local Treasures" on KZYX, which will air every 1st Monday of the Month at 9am, featuring Pomo Arts and Culture.

Todd Miller Build Bridges, Not Walls: A Journey to a World Without Borders

By Joy LaClaire • Sep 1, 2021

To hear this interview with Izzy Award winning author, Todd Miller, about his latest book Build Bridges, Not Walls: A Journey to a World Without Borders, as well as to access articles pertinent to it, click on this link:

https://forthright.media/2021/09/01/todd-miller-build-bridges-not-walls-a-journey-to-a-world-without-borders/

Eligible Americans Can Now Get COVID-19 Booster Shots

By Selena Simmons-Duffin • 2 hours ago

Syrian Government Takes Opposition Town After Weeks Of Siege

By Ruth Sherlock • 2 hours ago

The fall of a Syrian opposition town to the government this week after a siege and threats of air strikes serves as a reminder that the civil war continues.

Immigrant Rights Activist Discusses Migrant Treatment At Southern Border

By editor • 2 hours ago

NPR's Scott Simon asks immigrant rights advocate Vicki Gaubeca of the Southern Border Communities Coalition about the treatment of migrants at the southern border.

Week In Politics: Booster Shots, Haitian Migrants, Jan. 6 Investigation Committee

By Ron Elving • 2 hours ago

The pandemic, migration crisis, and Congressional gridlock continue to create stumbling blocks for the Biden administration.

Germans Will Choose A New Government As Angela Merkel Steps Down As Chancellor

By Rob Schmitz • 3 hours ago

BERLIN — Millions of Germans will head to the polls in a federal election on Sunday that will determine who will succeed Angela Merkel after 16 years as Germany's chancellor.

According to the latest polls, Germany's center-left Social Democratic Party is narrowly ahead of Merkel's center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian partner, the Christian Social Union. They're closely followed by the Greens, the far-right Alternative for Germany and the libertarian Free Democratic Party, all holding onto double-digit poll numbers going into Sunday's election.

The Elizabeth Holmes Trial Sparks A Silicon Valley Debate: Why Not Other Tech CEOs?

By Bobby Allyn • 3 hours ago

Selling an idea in Silicon Valley takes not only a grand vision but also swagger and bluster, says Margaret O'Mara, a historian of the tech industry.

"Being able to tell a good story is part of being a successful founder, being able to persuade investors to put money into your company," she said.

In France's Perfume Capital Of The World, There's A World Of Beautiful Fragrance

By Eleanor Beardsley • 3 hours ago

GRASSE, France — The town of Grasse sits in the hills above the more famous French Riviera city of Cannes, and it doesn't have the Mediterranean Sea at its doorstep. What it does have is fields of flowers — jasmine, May rose, tuberose, lavender. It is known as the perfume capital of the world.

It wasn't always this way. Back in the18th and 19th centuries, the industry took off in Grasse in part because this was an absolutely putrid-smelling town.

A Free In-School Grocery Store Is Tackling Child Hunger, One Family At A Time

By Sharon Pruitt-Young • 3 hours ago

In America, around 17 million children are battling hunger. An entrepreneur has teamed with rap star Gunna to open a free grocery store inside his old middle school in Georgia to try to begin to change that.

Rural Hospitals Worry They Will Lose Staff Because Of Biden's New Vaccine Mandate

By Tamara Keith • 3 hours ago

Adam Willmann was born in Goodall-Witcher hospital in Clifton, a small town in central Texas. Now he's its CEO, and he's worried his hospital may have to stop delivering babies.

That's because some of the experienced nurses in the Goodall-Witcher obstetrics department aren't vaccinated for COVID-19, and don't intend to be. But under a new federal mandate, hospitals will soon have to require their staff to be vaccinated.

Limits On Toilet Paper And Cleaning Supplies Are Back At Costco

By Jonathan Franklin • 17 hours ago

The days of toilet paper shortages may not be over just yet: Costco has announced new limits on purchases of certain household items as supply chain issues bedevil the company and the delta variant spreads.

The company is putting "limitations on key items" such as toilet paper, bottled water and cleaning supplies so it can meet any uptick in demand due to the COVID-19 surge, Costco Chief Financial Officer Richard Galanti said during the company's latest earnings call on Thursday.