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Feb 22 2022

Rubber Meets the Road With New Darting Law

By HumbleSky Make Believe News, Random/Rants One Comment

MAKE BELIEVE NEWS SACRAMENTO -- Proponents of a controversial new driver safety law enacted today proclaim it will restore civility to California’s roadways by shaming motorists who behave poorly. The radical approach, referred to as road darting, empowers licensed drivers…

Jul 23 2019

Love9

INFLUENCE IS A DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD

By HumbleSky Culture, Longevity One Comment

California is woefully unprepared for the needs and demands of the “gray wave” of aging baby boomers. The doom and gloom prognostication for our state in which the “senior citizen” population will double within a decade is expressed by several…

Mar 20 2018

Love42

HOLLYWOOD NEEDS TO ‘WISE UP’

By HumbleSky Culture, Film & TV 2 Comments

Hollywood needs to “wise up,” asserts the state of California’s leading advocate for older adults. The California Commission on Aging recently convened authorities from the entertainment industry and the field of aging to strategize how to improve the portrayal of…

Apr 11 2017

Love36

DON’T TAKE CREDIT, EARN IT

By HumbleSky Culture, Humility, Random/Rants One Comment

Not in recent memory has the political gamesmanship credit grabbing and shade throwing been so blatant. Each new day offers up news reports and social media posts and tweets to validate the old saying, “Success has a thousand fathers; failure…

Jan 17 2017

Love51

Trump and Brown Age Well By Example

By HumbleSky Culture, Longevity 2 Comments

By Stuart Greenbaum Donald J. Trump, 70, will be the oldest person to take office as president of the United States. In California, Jerry Brown, 73, is the country’s oldest governor. What they have in common as leaders is at…

May 13 2016

Love52

CAPITOL EYES ON SENIOR RALLY AND ‘REVOLUTION’

By HumbleSky Longevity 3 Comments

Here’s my armchair quarterback assessment of the day before yesterday’s “Senior Rally Day” at the State Capitol in California. For the record, these notes could apply to all senior rally days of past. More than 500 people attended the gathering.…

May 03 2016

Love51

SENIOR NUTRITION PROGRAMS PROVIDE FOOD FOR THOUGHT

By HumbleSky Culture, Humility, Longevity 4 Comments

Guest Essay by Paul Downey, Chair of the California Commission on Aging, and President and CEO of Serving Seniors (San Diego, CA) With the growing number of seniors in California, the Assembly Budget Subcommittee on Health and Human Services recently…

Apr 26 2016

Love75

DON’T’ WATER DOWN THE FUTURE: CONSERVE FOR EVER

By HumbleSky Culture, Longevity 2 Comments

Don’t assume temporary water conservation has solved the drought problem. Sure, we can toast our efforts so far, just remember, sip-don’t-gulp. Because, the problem is not that it doesn’t rain enough. The problem is we’re using too much water for…

Oct 27 2015

Love107

ALL FUN AND GAMES, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT WORKS

By HumbleSky Random/Rants 3 Comments

It began innocently enough – all fun and games. While earning college credits as a staff photographer for the Sacramento State Hornet student newspaper in the late seventies, I wrote a letter to the media relations director of the Oakland…

Apr 14 2015

Love120

JUST WHAT IS (OR ISN’T) ‘COMMUNITY LIVING’?

By HumbleSky Longevity One Comment

What’s in a name, anyway? The state legislature may establish a new California Department of Community Living. The proposed department, recommended by a coalition of legislators of a half-dozen senators and assemblymembers, would be housed within the Health and Human…

Rubber Meets the Road With New Darting Law

INFLUENCE IS A DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD

HOLLYWOOD NEEDS TO ‘WISE UP’

DON’T TAKE CREDIT, EARN IT

Trump and Brown Age Well By Example

CAPITOL EYES ON SENIOR RALLY AND ‘REVOLUTION’

SENIOR NUTRITION PROGRAMS PROVIDE FOOD FOR THOUGHT

DON’T’ WATER DOWN THE FUTURE: CONSERVE FOR EVER

ALL FUN AND GAMES, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT WORKS

JUST WHAT IS (OR ISN’T) ‘COMMUNITY LIVING’?

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