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Bernie Sanders suspends 2020 campaign
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Bernie Sanders suspends 2020 campaign

Vice President Joe Biden congratulates Sen. Bernie Sanders at the Old Senate Chamber in 2013.  Photo courtesy Wikimedia By ELLIANA KOPUT   Less than 24 hours after Wisconsin’s controversial democratic primary election, for which votes have yet to be counted, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has announced that he will be dropping out of the 2020 presidential race. Although numerous states, including Wyoming, Ohio, Kansas, Nebraska and Georgia, have yet to hold their state and presidential primaries, former Vice President Joe Biden has become the presumptive presidential candidate to run against President Donald Trump.  Sanders made the decision over a conference call with staff members. He later publicized the announcement in a livestream on April 8.  “So while we are winning the ideologic...
System change for climate change
Opinion

System change for climate change

This opinion is printed with permission of TucsonSentinel.com  Original can be found at: http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/091719_cease_climate_op/cease-system-change-needed-fight-climate-change By MIKE CEASE Special to TucsonSentinel.com Climate change is the most catastrophic environmental, social and economic crisis that the human species has ever faced. Impacts include rising average temperatures, vanishing polar ice, melting glaciers, stronger storms, rising sea levels, loss of biodiversity, worsening droughts, growing deserts, increasing wildfires, more disease, hunger, world-wide climate refugees and human misery. While the ruling class mostly denies or ignores the issue, young people get it. Sixteen-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg sailed into New York l...