Zócalo Looks at Good and Bad Californians
Bad Californians Are Delaying Our Kids and Assaulting Farmworkers. Good Californians Are Launching Opera Companies.
Nuclear Infant Zombies? While nuclear power plants have seen their share of setbacks in the last couple of years (see Fukushima in Japan, Kewaunee Power Station in Wisconsin, and Southern California’s San Onofre), nukes remain central to America’s electric grid. Should they? Environmental Health News publisher Peter Dykstra goes through all the strikes against nuclear power and finds their record dubious. But, he concludes, nukes stick around.
Why Farmworkers Get Raped. Ninety percent of female farmworkers say that sexual harassment is a major problem in the fields. Yet many women do …