Surprisingly little going on this three-day weekend — perhaps there’s just too much to do to offer something to do? But the rest of late spring and early summer is shaping up to be busy, indeed… Saturday, May 25: Guided photo walk. 9 a.m., Cosumnes River Preserve. Meet at the visitor center deck and bring a camera. [...]
The Delta Protection Commission voted last night to oppose the twin tunnels plan. It wasn’t a unanimous vote. But farmer Topper van Loben Sels tried. He drew chuckles when he asked the two state representatives on the panel to abstain instead of voting no. Todd Ferrara, a deputy secretary for the Natural Resources Agency, and [...]
Edit: To clarify, Meral’s statement that exports won’t increase is based on the 20-year-average of 5.3 million acre-feet. That’s doesn’t necessarily mean 5.3 million acre-feet will be the future target for exports. Jerry Meral, orchestrator of the state’s twin tunnels plan, said in a column published in The Record on Sunday that the amount of [...]
U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein and 12 members of the House have written to Gov. Jerry Brown and U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell, expressing “continued strong support for the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) process.” Read the letter.
Here’s one of those sour, excessively cynical posts which I’m sometimes inclined to write. The L.A. Kings and the San Jose Sharks are in the middle of a seven-game NHL series. (That’s hockey, people. The one they play on ice.) Normally these long series mean you’ve got to take little miniature road trips. You’ll play [...]
Two members of the Delta Stewardship Council are from the Delta, so I was curious what those members would say and how they would vote when the long-awaited Delta Plan finally came up for adoption last Thursday. Former state Sen. Patrick Johnston of Stockton specifically addressed the city’s concern that the plan gives the state [...]
Friday, May 17: “Sky Tours” stargazing event. 9 p.m. to 11 p.m., San Joaquin Delta College Shima 2 parking lot. Come peer through the telescopes of Stockton Astronomical Society members. Free. Saturday, May 18-Sunday, May 19: Woodbridge Wilderness Area open to the public from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day. The area is typically open the first and [...]
As reported in this morning’s ink edition, Dino Cortopassi has lost his five-year fight to force the state to dredge the Mokelumne River near his Canal Ranch property. Here is the ruling by Judge Linda Lofthus.
My “cost-benefit” earlier this week on taking the bus to Yosemite vs driving failed to take into consideration the $20 park entrance fee. It’s a wonder I’m even allowed to write about this stuff. So let’s try again. Adding the entrance fee onto what I figured earlier, it’d probably cost me about $43 to drive [...]
Check out this series of of time lapse images from Google Earth, showing Stockton’s evolution over the past 30 years.