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Stephen H. Provost is an author of paranormal adventures and historical non-fiction. “Memortality” is his debut novel on Pace Press, set for release Feb. 1, 2017.
An editor and columnist with more than 30 years of experience as a journalist, he has written on subjects as diverse as history, religion, politics and language and has served as an editor for fiction and non-fiction projects. His book “Fresno Growing Up,” a history of Fresno, California, during the postwar years, is available on Craven Street Books. His next non-fiction work, “Highway 99: The History of California’s Main Street,” is scheduled for release in June.
For the past two years, the editor has served as managing editor for an award-winning weekly, The Cambrian, and is also a columnist for The Tribune in San Luis Obispo.
He lives on the California coast with his wife, stepson and cats Tyrion Fluffybutt and Allie Twinkletail.
Ruminations and provocations.
Police are part of a larger group of publicly funded servants charged with protecting local residents — a group that also includes sheriff’s officers and deputies, firefighters, and paramedics. It would never enter anyone’s mind that firefighters or paramedics would pose a threat to public safety. The same should go for police officers.
Read MoreWho would go to a brain surgeon for a case of chickenpox. No one. Except maybe Donald Trump, who seems to think anyone with the word “doctor” in front of his name is automatically an expert in every field of medicine.
Read MoreThe narrative is consistent: Democrats don’t trust this year’s polls because Hillary Clinton lost even though she led in 2016. It’s the old principle: “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.”. .. (So), it’s not the polls Democrats don’t trust, it’s the feeling of optimism that goes along with those strong poll numbers.
Read MoreAnalytics don’t account for intangibles, but guess what? The intangibles don’t care about analytics. The Dodgers didn’t, either. That’s why they won the series.
Read MorePundits make a point of emphasizing that Trump is running against a far more likeable candidate this time, and one he can’t tar and feather with sexist rhetoric. (He tried ageism, but that didn’t work.) This should be 1936, 1972, and 1984 all over again. So why the hell is this race so close?
Read MoreNew conquests require new enemies, and Trump can’t help but make them. … But these external enemies, whether they’re Democrats or “fake news media” or Never Trumpers, are really proxies in an internal war against himself that he can’t admit he’s fighting.
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