Category Archives: Restoring Science Watch

  1. Don Curlee: Blind leadership frustrates farmers, red-baiting 1950s style the answer

    Visalia Times-Delta columnist joins in the Red Bating fad  as though that will solve anything Farmers have no monopoly on honesty, because that character trait is rooted in the country’s founding principles. But those roots have grown strong and deep in agriculture. Farmers are wondering why honesty doesn’t have a higher priority among political representatives. [...]

  2. Prescribed Burning Begins in the Giant Sequoia National Monument

    For Immediate Release Prescribed Burning Begins in the Giant Sequoia National Monument SPRINGVILLE, CA – Sequoia National Forest personnel are starting their fall prescribed burning in the Western Divide Ranger District, Giant Sequoia National Monument this week. With the recent storm in the area, weather and smoke conditions are predicted to be favorable for burning [...]

  3. Sharp Debate At High Court Over Cross On US Land

    Debate Mirrors Ongoing Porterville Controversy in Murray Park “I have been in Jewish cemeteries,” Eliasberg continued. “There is never a cross on a tombstone of a Jew.” From: Sharp debate at high court over cross on US land – Yahoo! News. This case mirrors a  current situation in Porterville,  one of many that our City [...]

  4. Restoring Science Watch: Texas and science standards in schools

    Obama promised a program to “restore Sceince to its rightful place” in  America during his Inauguration Address, as I pointed out here: Today, we find Texas, home of ex-President Bush, showing how much work remai ns to be done: Texas wrestles with science standards, evolution The crowd — as well as the review panel — [...]