Vote for what is important.

 Is it Data Centers?

AI?

Recreation Geography: Threat of AI?

Climate Change?

Recreation Geography: Sea level rise and climate change

and Urban Heat Islands?

Recreation Geography: Urban Heat Islands and Parks

Support Public Education?

Protect Public Schools | NEA

Public Lands?

National Public Lands Day | The National Environmental Education Foundation (NEEF)

National Public Lands Day - NPS Commemorations and Celebrations (U.S. National Park Service)

Health Care?

Trump administration sets preliminary cuts to Medicare lab reimbursement rates | Healthcare Dive

How Does U.S. Healthcare Compare to Other Countries?

Human Rights?

Universal Declaration of Human Rights | United Nations

Animal Rights

Raging GOP Candidate Mike Bost's Past Includes Dog Killing And Mysterious Stolen Gun | HuffPost Latest News

Election 2024

 Worth repeating.

What this election in 2024 is really about is Freedom.

The freedom NOT to be challenged by your race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or national origin.

PLEASE VOTE.

Election 2020

 Everyone is watching the US right now.

so let's take a look at the view in the UK and the Guardian with this headline:

US election polls tracker: who is leading in swing states, Trump or Biden?

With the presidential election just days away, the Guardian is tracking the latest polling in eight states that could decide the election.

Ohio and Iowa are leaning toward the red, while all the other swing states favor the Blue.

 

The BBC shares a similar cautionary view

Biden leading national presidential polls

Scary papers

 I know it is a scary time in our history, but then again there is Hallowe'en.

Four papers on the subject:

Bristow, R. S., & Newman, M. (2005). Myth vs. fact: An exploration of fright tourism. In In: Bricker, Kelly, comp., ed. 2005. Proceedings of the 2004 Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-326. Newtown Square, PA: US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Research Station: 215-221. Link.

Bristow, R. & Keenan, D. (2018). Fright Tourism: a Study of Fear.  e-Review of Tourism Research (eRTR). 15(1): 63-78. Link.

Bristow, R. & Jenkins, I. (2019). Geography of Fear:  Fright Tourism Contributing to Urban Revitalization. Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events. doi: 10.1080/19407963.2019.1631319 

Bristow, R. S. (2020). Communitas in Fright Tourism. Tourism Geographies. 22(2): 319-337. doi: 10.1080/14616688.2019.1708445.

 

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Vote Public Lands

Your vote in the 2020 election is critical in advancing equitable access to the outdoors and expanding outdoor recreation and conservation.

 

 

 

Vote

Vote on Tuesday.

Vote for candidates that support our treasured public lands.

Vote for ballot questions that protect these lands and our global citizens.

Vote

Count Arthur Strong for President

American politics has welcomed movie stars and even reality TV quasi-celebrities.  We can't get any lower.

Now is the time for members of a "royal" family to take the stage, leading America out of the dump.

Count Arthur Strong for US President 2020!

His platform is "We're Listening."

When was the last time we had someone in the office that listened to the American People?

Election Day

I am reminded about an episode of my favorite comedy TV show, Count Arthur Strong.  The best thing on TV now. If you don't subscribe to to Acorn, you can watch many episodes on YouTube.

Erect Strong!