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ANIMALS AND THE ENVIRONMENT: Vote Yes! on Proposition 50
By Don C. Reed President Trump said recently that he was going to change the way we protected endangered species. From now on, he said, we were going to “protect the animal, but not its environment”. (1) This does not make sense. If we don’t protect the environment,...
HISPANIC STRENGTH: Proposition 50 Deserves Support
HISPANIC STRENGTH: Proposition 50 Deserves SupportBy Don C. ReedMy wife of 50 years was Hispanic (she recently passed away) and very strong in faith and family. But politically, I always felt Latinos never fully utilized their power. In California, for example,...
HISPANICS, ASIANS, AND AFRICAN-AMERICANS — VOTE “YES!!” ON PROPOSITION 50
By Don C. Reed If you are Hispanic, Asian, or African-American, Proposition 50 will advance your goals. If accepted by the voters, Proposition 50 will balance the Republican manipulation of the voting maps. As you recall, Donald Trump asked the Governor of Texas to...
THE COALITION OF YES! Democrats, Independents, and Proposition 50
By Don C. Reed On November 4th, every Californian voter needs to go to the polls (or send mail) and vote YES! on Proposition 50, the Election Rigging Response Act. Why? We want checks and balances, so no one party controls everything; that is what Proposition 50 is...
PROPOSITION 50: a Bill We Need to Know
By Don C. Reed Every so often, a bill comes up so important it may touch all our lives. Such a bill is Proposition 50: the Election Rigging Response Act (ERRA). Although its fate will be decided by a California vote, its effect may be felt across the nation, and...
THE DANGER OF REDISTRICTING — and What to Do About It?
By Don C. Reed It seemed harmless enough, at first. President Trump ordered Texas Governor Greg Abbot to redraw his state’s voting map — to get him five more Republican-controlled voting districts. Trump said he was only looking for “a very simple redrawing: we pick...
A RAT NAMED FIGHTER
By Don C. Reed March 1, 2002, opening day of the Roman Reed lab at the University of California at Irvine. I held in my hands a laboratory rat which had been paralyzed, but which walked again. Under its sleek white coat, I felt tiny muscles struggling to be free. The...
THE INCREDIBLE CHALLENGE OF TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY
By Don C. ReedAmong young people, Traumatic Brain Injury Injury (TBI) (1) is the largest cause of death and disability. Among the old, TBI is also very common, more than cancers of the brain, breast, colon, lung and prostate — put together. Like a bullet fired into a...
SHARING WORK WITH THE UNDOCUMENTED
By Don C. ReedOne hot Summer morning years ago, I rode in the back of a truck to the strawberry fields, to earn money to buy a ring for my 8thgrade girlfriend.It was not easy. Bending over to pluck berries from the ground brought stabbing pain in my back: not muscular...
Don Reed's NEW BOOK - "Science, Politics, Stem Cells and Genes: California's War on Chronic Disease"
California’s War on Chronic Disease
By Don C. Reed, World Scientific Publishing, April 2023