News — Miscellaneous

Hands go up for questions at the end of a talk and someone asks, “What gives you hope?” I say the usual, believing the future to be long, all sorts of twists and turns in the plot.  No, not that. Too weak. Too…hopeless. I’ve got to go home and think about this. So, here’s what gives me hope. Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in southern Arizona shares 30 miles of border with Sonora, Mexico. All wilderness and monument regulations have been waved by Congress so that construction of the border wall will not be impeded. Sacred hilltops, sites of native...