The hurricanes, shootings, fires and tragedies just keep coming - it's more than we can process... it leaves us shell-shocked.
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Debra DeAngelo
Columnist - November 1, 2017 in Columnists
I learned to use my claws and collected some gold too
Twenty-five years ago, Oct. 14, 1992, my life took an unplanned, unexpected, whimsically illogical turn. I left my insanely wonderful job as an employment specialist with Community Partnership Agency (a one-time Yolo County Department of Social Services employment and training program), and drove my career...
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Debra DeAngelo
Columnist - October 13, 2017 in Columnists
Shell-shocked by tragedy
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Debra DeAngelo
Columnist - October 6, 2017 in Columnists
It’s time to have the conversation we never have about guns
We can't find the answer to gun control if we're asking the wrong question. It is time to have the conversation we never have about the real reason for gun violence and mass shootings in the U.S.
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Debra DeAngelo
Columnist - September 29, 2017 in Columnists
Out of tragedy, the new PG&E Gas Safety Academy is born
The San Bruno natural gas pipeline explosion prompted PG&E to embark on a focus of "safety first," and one result of that is the new PG&E Gas Safety Academy in Winters.
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Debra DeAngelo
Columnist - September 22, 2017 in Columnists
Acting, camping until 2020 sets us free
In addition to exploring my as-yet untapped theatrical talents (I mean, aside from acting interested when someone’s yapping my ear off or calm while stifling my desire to throttle some asswipe who desperately has it coming) as a means to cope until the 2020 election...
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Debra DeAngelo
Columnist - September 15, 2017 in Columnists
Their only crime was to dare to dream
The first time I heard someone speaking Spanish in public, I’d just started college in Davis and went to a shoe store in Woodland to get some cool but cheap platform sandals (it was the ’70s, man). I heard two women chatting in Spanish in...
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Debra DeAngelo
Columnist - September 11, 2017 in Columnists
Off to see the Wizard
So, I auditioned for “Glinda”… but was offered “Auntie Em.” Dang. But… Okay!!! I’ll be the best Auntie Em ever! At least I’ll get to holler, “DoroTHEE!!!” into the face of the tornado (which haunted my childhood dreams and still swirls up from time to...
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Debra DeAngelo
Columnist - August 25, 2017 in Columnists
Alt-Right rallies designed to provoke racial violence
The Alt-Right WANTS violence this weekend. And the more racially charged, the better. Why? Simple: Violent clashes, particularly racial ones, completely occupy the media's attention, and therefore our attention.
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Debra DeAngelo
Columnist - August 11, 2017 in Columnists
Profiles in Carnage
I’m just old enough to remember monthly air raid siren drills, although at the time, I didn’t really understand what they meant, I only understood that they terrified me. I’d run and hide whenever they sounded. Everybody in the room who’s also old enough to...
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