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Monthly Archives: September 2009
Tracking trash
These MIT guys are using custom-made sensors to follow trash items as they are shipped through the municipal waste stream of major American cities.
Gnarly.
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Lost and found
Sorry, this is too good not to blog.
Would anyone care to claim the adult blow-up doll found in the Calaveras River on Coastal Cleanup Day?
STOCKTON — An oozing oil filter, drug-infested tires and an adult blow-up doll were among some of the strange finds during this year’s Coastal Cleanup Day, organizers reported Monday.
More than 1,300 [...]
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Debunking Hannity
I had aspirations of writing a piece exposing all of the errors and omissions in Sean Hannity’s “The Valley that Hope Forgot” last week.
Colleague Mike Fitzgerald beat me to it, and did a darn fine job.
Check out his piece if you haven’t seen it. And read his blog for supporting information.
Hannity’s nonsense has been picked up by the blogosphere [...]
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Trash or treasure? Mostly trash
Local Coastal Cleanup Day organizers are reporting record turnout last Saturday — 1,324 volunteers, to be exact, up from roughly 900 last year. Y’all picked up 30 tons of trash!
As just one example, here’s what they found in Lodi, in the words of organizer Kathy Grant:
We collected about 1,500 lbs, or about 40 large bags [...]
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Peripheral canal survey
This was released while I was on vacation, but I share it with you now in advance of Tuesday night’s BDCP meeting in Stockton.
Details for that meeting can be found here. Delta advocates are planning a protest beforehand.
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Fish kill reported
(updated with photos, courtesy Jeremy Terhune)
A fish kill was reported Wednesday morning on the Calaveras River at the Pershing Avenue bridge, according to emails received by the advocacy group Friends of the Lower Calaveras River.
A Delta College instructor riding his bike to work saw a number of fish species belly-up in a log jam [...]
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NO WATER DEAL
Not tonight.
Senate Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg just released the following statement:
“We will not be moving the water bills this evening. Everyone agrees that we are close and that we have made a decade’s worth of progress in just a few weeks but there is still some more work to do.
We will continue to negotiate [...]
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No water deal…
… at least, not yet, with five hours left before everyone turns into pumpkins.
Here’s the LA Times’ take as of 6:46 p.m.:
With the close of the legislative session hours away, the fate of an ambitious set of water proposals remains up in the air.
Negotiations continued on a big bond and policy package put together by [...]
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Obama admin: Delta a top priority