Category Archives: Current Affairs

Miami Mayor Office is flipped blue Nov 2025

Posted on 2025 December 10 by Danny Choriki

Miami elected Eileen Higgins as mayor, breaking a 30-year Republican hold on the city. Continue reading →

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Reclaiming Community in an Age of Spectacle

Posted on 2025 July 13 by Danny Choriki

A personal reflection on how historical memory and community organizing converge to resist ideological extremism and rebuild pluralistic civic life. Continue reading →

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Rapture Day 21 May 2011: Shooting a grizzly bear will only make it mad.

Posted on 2011 May 20 by Danny Choriki

As I write, it is 21 May 2011 in Fiji. According to Harold Campy, rapture will begin globally at 6pm at the International Dateline with a massive earthquake and tidal waves. That will be around 2 AM here in New … Continue reading →

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Snow days, climate change and second order effects

Posted on 2010 February 26 by Danny Choriki

It is a snow day in New York City. Again. I am enjoying it but I did grow up in Montana. This one is a little closer to what I would call a snow day, i.e. a decent accumulation where … Continue reading →

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Journalism in the digital age: A changed landscape

Posted on 2009 December 9 by Danny Choriki

(Dateline Washington DC) The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) held a workshop on December 1-2, 2009 titled “How Will Journalism Survive the Internet Age?” From a naive perspective, and indeed much of the public discussion on the issue has focused around … Continue reading →

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