Tributes to Dolly Parton grew under the mural in west Asheville NC following her death Aug. 25, 2026.
Actually the world is suffering from just one Donald.
Fond memories of driving up the Blue Ridge Parkway in NC to the Orchard at Altapass for home-made apple pie a la mode!
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Just a few of Jess Craven's "Extra! Extra!" good news:
A judge struck down Texas’s ban on drag shows, telling people offended by them “just don’t go.” Bravo!
For nearly a month, the key force standing in the way of Trump’s border wall project in southeast Arizona has been a person (not always the same one) sitting in a 200-year-old tree. So far, they’re succeeding.
After months of public comment about data sharing and oversight, Asheville, NC’s City Council voted 5–2 in a packed, heated meeting to cancel the city’s contract with Flock Safety.
Arkansas Medicaid is now covering doula care, complying with a new law meant to improve maternal health.
A federal judge upheld Oregon’s plastic pollution and recycling program, the first court ruling on the legality of state laws designed to hold producers responsible for the cost of dealing with their waste.
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Go see the Aug 30 publication which ends with a video by teenager, Charlotte, in Valencia giving her opinion of Flock cameras to her local council. It's amazing!
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This is important to know...as well as saying Olorunnipa's name is kind of nice to do! From:"On Thursday, August 27, Tolouse Olorunnipa reported on the attempts of Republican lawmakers to restrict the ability of naturalized and dual citizens to run for office. In several states, Republican lawmakers have introduced measures to cut those Americans out of candidacy for elected positions, while in Congress, at least five Republicans have called for prohibiting them from federal judgeships, Cabinet posts, ambassadorships, and congressional seats. The push has come in the wake of the rise of New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani and other naturalized U.S. citizens whose policy positions those like South Carolina representative Nancy Mace consider un-American. These policies are, of course, the ones voters elected people like Mamdani to put into place. In her comments to Olorunnipa, Mace said: “This isn’t personal. It’s about what standard we want for the people entrusted with enormous power over the American people.” Her word choice was revealing. Our elected officials are entrusted with the enormous power of the American people, not over them." ---------------------------- Climate change anyone? In case you haven't looked at many of the details: 
"A horrific flash flood in the Himalayas has left more than 500 dead and thousands missing in Nepal and China – and it appears to have begun with collapsing ice. A huge chunk of glacier on the north face of Langtang Lirung sheared off and slid down the mountain, triggering a gigantic landslide of rock and ice that ultimately registered as a 5.2 magnitude earthquake when it reached the valley floor.
“When a glacier of that scale collapses, it generates a lot of water, and then there’s a cascading sequence of events… where the water and the sediment combine and bulks up and creates the flood," explained Andrew Mackintosh, a glaciologist at Monash University.
The resulting flood wave traveled down a nearby river valley, washing away a border crossing between Nepal and China, wiping out bridges, sweeping away homes and people, and caking the landscape with mud.
We know that climate change made this event more likely. Himalayan glaciers and, indeed, all over the world — are rapidly retreating. As Ashim Sattar, an assistant professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar who studies Himalayan glaciers, said: "there’s a very straight link between climate change and these types of disasters." And once again, those who contribute least to the climate crisis (per person carbon emissions in Nepal are 20 times less than those of a typical American or Canadian) are most affected." From Katharine Hayhoe -------------------- When I was a student at the University of Florida (Gainesville) in the 1980s, I lived in student housing with my youngest son. Upstairs were a couple and their little baby from Nepal. He was studying forestry and she knew almost no English. They were the most gentle loving people I knew, and I remember taking them to the Atlantic beach so she could see the ocean for the first time. I think of how they left America to return to Nepal where he was going to help plant trees and manage forests, and their son is now in his 40s (as is my son!) ------------------ And I can't postpone my ire over the murder of the beautiful cherry trees: |
Launch of SpaceX hauling a new batch of Starlink v2-mini satellites for their second-generation high-speed low earth orbit internet satellite constellation. Seen on 8.25.26 5.33 am Blue Ridge Parkway Bedford Cnty VA
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