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Stateside with Rosalea Barker: Oregon
Thursday, 18 February 2010, 11:32 am | Rosalea Barker
Coincidentally, I’m writing this Oregon piece on Valentine’s Day, when masses of roses exchange hands to win hearts. Portland, OR, is known as the City of Roses . Search “Oregon roses” on Google, and the first link that’s returned goes ... More >>
Stateside: That’s Entertainment!
Friday, 5 February 2010, 2:20 pm | Rosalea Barker
What’s a girl to do? Nine Old Home folks have been nominated for Oscars ; and nine golden nods have come to New Home folks as well—some of them for the same category and film on account of collaboration on Avatar . I guess I’ll just have to lay ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea Barker: Minnesota
Monday, 1 February 2010, 3:56 pm | Rosalea Barker
Talk about yer melting glaciers! Where would Minnesota be without ’em? Still buried under a squizillion tons of ice, that’s where. According to the state’s Department of Natural Resources, by 9,000 years ago, the ice sheets which had been advancing ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea Barker: California
Wednesday, 20 January 2010, 1:06 pm | Rosalea Barker
If I’d been living in 1840 where I live today, the last line of my mailing address would have read “Mexico”. Twenty years earlier it would have read “New Spain”, but the 1821 Mexican Revolution resulted in the ousting of a colonial power and its ... More >>
Stateside: Haiti earthquake
Friday, 15 January 2010, 11:09 am | Rosalea Barker
I learned about the earthquake in Haiti very shortly after it happened. A workmate has been monitoring the US Geological Survey website all this week, following a 6.5 earthquake off the coast of Northern California at the weekend. The Sunday quake ... More >>
Obama Sets His Sights On Indonesia
Monday, 11 January 2010, 11:14 am | Rosalea Barker
On Thursday, January 7, the State Department’s Foreign Press Center held a briefing for foreign journalists about Secretary Clinton’s upcoming visit to the Pacific. The full transcript of the briefing is available here . More >>
Rosalea Barker: Pigs vs ponies
Thursday, 7 January 2010, 11:27 am | Rosalea Barker
Excuse me while I wipe a tear from my eye. In his final State of the State address, the CA Governor has just delivered a heartfelt plea for us to feel sorry for the 144k Californians who contribute 50 percent of the state’s taxes for the benefit ... More >>
2009—the year the media moved my cheese
Wednesday, 30 December 2009, 1:32 pm | Rosalea Barker
When the Newshour with Jim Lehrer became the PBS Newshour in December, it was immediately obvious that the map behind the opening anchor was going to be a problem. It’s a map of North America, and the Great Lakes just happen to be at head height. Depending ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea Barker: Wisconsin
Monday, 28 December 2009, 12:30 pm | Rosalea Barker
Who moo? There’s a contract job that comes up every year in Wisconsin for which the incumbent receives a salary of $40,000, professional travel expenses and a mink garment from the Kettle Moraine Mink Breeders Association. The lucky contractor also ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Iowa
Thursday, 24 December 2009, 2:04 pm | Rosalea Barker
It’s Christmas Eve, and what better place to spend it than Algona, Iowa. This small town in northwestern Iowa was the site of a prisoner of war camp during WWII, which captured German soldiers were shipped to from the theaters in Europe and North Africa. ... More >>
The battle to control California's water
Wednesday, 23 December 2009, 2:11 pm | Rosalea Barker
C alifornia is known as The Golden State not because of the gold that was discovered here in the 1840s, but because of the tawny colour of the hills and valleys that greeted the first European settlers. So fond are Californians of their dry landscape, ... More >>
Rosalea Barker (At Annapolis): Texas
Monday, 21 December 2009, 3:57 pm | Rosalea Barker
I have a theory about Texas—it merely wants to rule the universe. One of my acquaintances so hates what the place stands for she has never set foot in it. Another acquaintance is a Texan so amiable that I can safely espouse my Texas conspiracy theory to her ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Stop! Water thief!
Monday, 7 December 2009, 5:02 pm | Rosalea Barker
When California’s Governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, travels to Copenhagen this week to participate in Subnational Day at the UN Climate Change Conference, he and his support staff may be doing so at the expense of a wealthy business owner who contributes ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea Barker: Florida
Tuesday, 24 November 2009, 12:19 pm | Rosalea Barker
The DK State-by-State Atlas puts it this way: “In 1513, Juan Ponce de Leon sailed to the region during Spain’s spring holiday, Pascua Florida, the Feast of the Flowers. He came ashore and named the land La Florida in honor of the holiday.” Most people ... More >>
Werewolf: race to be the Governor of California
Friday, 20 November 2009, 1:40 pm | Rosalea Barker
A t 3.10pm on Friday, 30 October, one of the journalists who contribute to the ‘Political Blotter’ blog on the Bay Area News Group’s website posted the following: More >>
Werewolf: California's crowded prisons
Thursday, 19 November 2009, 2:51 pm | Rosalea Barker
California fails to cope with its crowded prisons Werewolf.co.nz September Issue Original Article by Rosalea Barker E very person in prison in California will one day be released. Take a deep breath and repeat after me: Every person in prison in ... More >>
Stateside: Veterans Day, 2009
Friday, 13 November 2009, 3:15 pm | Rosalea Barker
On the bus on the way home from the movie I went to this afternoon, I asked the person sitting next to me if there was an LP by Boston among all the records I could see in his shopping bag, and which he had been trying to unsuccessfully sell to a second-hand ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea Barker: Michigan
Monday, 9 November 2009, 9:52 am | Rosalea Barker
Is there any word that more trippingly trips off the lips than “Kalamazoo”? I think not. This city in SW Michigan began life as Bronson, named after the settler who first claimed the land and built a hut there in 1829, Titus Bronson . He wasn’t ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: A traveller’s thoughts
Sunday, 1 November 2009, 10:45 pm | Rosalea Barker
So, possums, I’ve been back in California for three weeks now and have finally returned to my normal US state of curmudgeonliness. (Yes, spellcheck, I know it’s not a word, but neither are you by your very own lights!) Of course, it’s debatable ... More >>
Rosalea Barker: A trip Down Under in pictures
Tuesday, 20 October 2009, 2:15 pm | Rosalea Barker
The US flag atop the new drilling rig next to the road to my birthplace was in tatters by the time I left town a week later, shredded by the south wind that had brought unseasonal snowfalls early in the week of my visit and dressing my beloved mountain ... More >>
