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Monthly Archives: September 2007
Lies and Dam Lies …
Would you vote for “Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Sustainability, water supply reliability, and environmental restoration projects?” Probably?
Would you vote for a couple old-school destructive dams, yet another on the ailing San Joaquin River? Probably not? Apparently that is why the governor’s office is blatantly mis-characterizing the language on the ballot. The California Progress Report has the story here.
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A Delta explainer
Do you really understand why the Delta smelt is dying? And why the Delta is dying? Read this excellent story and you will.
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China gawks at "ground zero."
I’ve already cried uncle (see below). Now, China has to pile on.
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Every second wasted since 1790
So, the 50,000 commuters who cross the Altamont daily now spend an average of 38 hours a year delayed by traffic jams.
Let’s see, that’s 1, 900,000 hours lost per year, or 217 years of lost time. Meaning all the time since 1790, the year after George Washington became president of the United States.
Yet earlier [...]
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Wall Street Journal says ‘Stockton’ now dirty word
A lede paragraph in today’s Wall Street Journal:
“To make an American mortgage executive wince, just say ‘Stockton.’”
Enough already!
The article goes on to diagnose another problem in the real estate market: boom-glutted lenders are mismanaging the downturn. Stuck with foreclosed homes, they are holding out for boom-time resale prices — lotsa luck there! — and reluctant to [...]
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Fish Sniffer sniffs at governor’s Delta "boondoggle"
Dan Bacher, editor of the Fish Sniffer, gets off a great line in a piece for the left-leaning California Progress Report:
“In Schwarzenegger’s mind, the Delta is not an ecosystem that provides water supply, but a water supply that happens to include an ecosystem.”
Bull’s eye! Read the whole piece here.
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USS Iowa competition down to last man standing
Once there were three groups vying to win the U.S.S. Iowa.
One was Stockton, led by Stockton’s port, which flip-flopped and withdrew its support. One was Historic Ships Memorial at Pacific Square, a San Francisco-based nonprofit crossed up by SF’s nutty Board of Supervisors. The Supes voted to oppose the historic battleship’s berthing in San [...]
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Bad omen for the SJ River
The first big crack appears in the settlement to restore the San Joaquin River — Madera farmers bail.
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Take off that green necktie, governor