About
Bearing Witness in the Heartland is a journal-style news blog dedicated to recording the more important news events and changes occurring within our country and to our planet – some hopeful but many fretful – as seen from a rural community outside of Saint Louis, Missouri.
Chronicles
Here under the Bearing Witness Heartland Chronicles we watch and record history as it is happening in front of us, as well as how the future of our country and planet is being manifested, intentionally or not, by our actions and inactions. As has…
Observatory
The Bearing Witness Heartland Observatory blog pages share my modest attempt of trying to make sense of all that is being witnessed, as well as to seek out and explore those topics and trends which are hidden or yet to fully emerge. I am…
Bearing Witness to the Pandemic June 2021
Weeks of June 1-12, 2021 COVID cases continue their rapid decline across the country, although states with low vaccination rates are seeing the majority of new infections and deaths. The daily average count is now running 14,000. This is still worrisome as from each…
Bearing Witness to Climate Change June 2021
NOAA reported that in May the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii recorded the highest levels of CO2 in the atmosphere at 419 parts per million. CO2 levels have now surpassed a staggering 50% higher than in pre-industrial times. The drop in emissions last year…
Bearing Witness to the Pandemic May 2021
May 1-8, 2021 The month begins with over 32.5 million cases and 575,000 deaths from COVID in the US. However, good news keeps coming as daily new case counts continue to fall in the US below an average of 50,000 for the first time…
