This week March 30, 2022 in gay Palm Springs.

iders riding between stations from 5
to 20 miles apart depending on the
terrain of the area. For the most part,
the Pony Express used routes traveled
by stagecoaches operating at this same
point in history.
During the era of the Great Depression
from the early 1930s into the 1940s the
New Deal legislation aimed at providing
employment for various professions
began granting artists employment by
painting murals at local post offices
throughout the United States. These
murals
became
historical
icons
of the
history
of that
period.
There
were
over 1,400
murals
painted in
postoffices.
Today
there is a movement by the U.S. Post
Office to preserve the murals that are
currently remaining.
insert newdealmural
Throughout
recent history
during the past
3 decades,
there has been
an effort by
conservative
politicians to privatize the postal service
One of the schemes introduced by
Republican legislators during the
George W. Bush administration was
titled the Postal Accountability and
Enhancement Act of 2006. This required
the U.S. Post Office to basically prefund
the value of earned retirement
obligations of postal employees for
a fifty-year period. This was for past
retirement promises which had not yet
come due for a ten-year time span.
This was a deliberate scheme to attempt
to bankrupt the U.S. Post Office. The
Enhancement Act of 2006 was passed
by a voice vote prior to a recess. Henry
Waxman at that time a representative
from California who had a mixed bag
of support for a variety of progressive
measures succumbed to the promise
of dark money from UPS and FedX to
provide his vote for this fiasco. The other
California representative to provide
his vote is the former felon involved in
a number of auto theft schemes and
eventually starting a company called
“Steal Stopper” car alarms. Who
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