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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.
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(Pollsters) kept assuring us that they’d “made adjustments” in the way they posed their questions to ensure they wouldn’t make the same mistakes again in 2020. Learning from your mistakes is a good thing. But what if your adjustments make things worse instead of better? That’s exactly what seems to have happened. Either that, or they didn’t adjust nearly enough.
Read MoreTrump wasn’t running against Hillary Clinton this time, but against a relatively likeable, mild-mannered gentleman named Joe Biden. On top of that, the vast majority of Trump voters said they were voting for him, not against Biden. Trump got worse, and his supporters became more devoted to him. To the rest of us, this seems absurd, bordering on insane. The question is, why?
Read More(“The Snake”) tells the story of a woman who rescues a freezing snake and is rewarded for her trouble with a fatal, poisonous bit. Trump uses it to depict immigrants as “snakes,” but when viewed in a different light, it’s the perfect allegory for Trump himself.
Read MorePolice 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.
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