Showing posts with label Cecil Morris. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cecil Morris. Show all posts
Saturday, August 15, 2026

A CURRENT EVENT

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by Cecil Morris On last night’s news, the demonstrations of officers with their newest “tool”: the electric shock glove, a low-voltage stunn...
Monday, March 30, 2026

UPON LEARNING THAT THE UNITED STATES VOTED AGAINST

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the United Nations resolution designating the trafficking of enslaved Africans “the gravest crime against humanity.”   by Cecil Morris     ...
Monday, February 02, 2026

NEW CHEERS FROM THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST

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by Cecil Morris Get a load of this: Columbia, Breakside unveil beer made from bear poop" — Oregon Public Broadcasting , January 28, 202...
Monday, October 13, 2025

PLEASE, AMERICA, DON'T TURN YOUR BACK ON ME

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by Cecil Morris AI-generated graphic by NightCafé for The New Verse News . I remember breaking up with my first real girlfriend,  the one wh...
Sunday, September 14, 2025

WE GET TO CHOOSE

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by Cecil Morris Art by Luis Ricardo Many people, of course, feel America is broken. You can hear about the country’s many troubles — its ide...
Wednesday, April 02, 2025

LET US RAISE OUR VOICES

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by  Cecil Morris The Trump administration laid off thousands of federal health workers, dismissing senior leaders and top scientists in a pu...
Wednesday, December 11, 2024

WE LOVE GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE

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by Cecil Morris Supreme Court seems ready to uphold ban on gender-affirming care for minors. — NPR , December 4, 2024 Here’s gender-affirmin...
Wednesday, November 27, 2024

THE THINGS GOOD PEOPLE DO

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by Cecil Morris Portland’s ‘frog taxi’ offers a life-saving lift to a struggling species.  Volunteers shuttle Northern red-legged frogs acro...
Tuesday, October 22, 2024

WHAT’S THAT ANIMAL DOING HERE?

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by Cecil Morris In this provided photo from Oct. 13, 2024, an arctic fox is sheltered at the Bird Alliance of Oregon, after being spotted in...
Friday, September 13, 2024

GOING DEEPER

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by Cecil Morris Yellow No. 5 food dye. (Matthew Christiansen/U.S. National Science Foundation) “ Scientists use food dye found in Doritos to...