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Monthly Archives: September 2009
The Gray Lady exposes death penalty costs
The New York Times has an opinion piece giving another reason to abandon the death penalty — it costs a fortune. In California,
death row costs taxpayers $114 million a year beyond the cost of imprisoning convicts for life. The state has executed 13 people since 1976 for a total of about $250 million per execution. [...]
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It’s morning in Stockton
So, we’ve aot a serial killer in Superior Court pleading guilty to six more murders, Education Week News calling Stockton a “hard-luck town,” famous blogger Yglesias calling Stockton, among other Valley cities, “loci of very long-term unemployed people” and the Associated Press reporting, “San Joaquin Valley residents suffer from chronic diseases at high rates and have less access to [...]
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Score one for the watchdog
Bill Jennings, head of the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance, forwards this, about a victory over lax regulators allowing Delta pollution. If your eyes glaze over at the technicalities, go to the bottom for a translation.
CSPA Forces Regional Board to Withdraw Illegal Underground RegulationDecision affects numerous permits for discharges to surface and groundwater
In response to a 28 [...]
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FPPC proposes to fine Dean Andal
From the upcoming agenda of the Fair Political Practices Commission:
In the Matter of Dean Andal, Citizens for Andal, Citizens for Andal-Lincoln Unified, and Larry Solari, FPPC No. 05/703. Staff: Commission Counsel Neal Bucknell and Special Investigator Beatrice Moore. In this matter, Respondents Dean Andal and Citizens for Andal sent two mass mailings, which did not [...]
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Sheriff’s command vehicle goof goes national
A humor website features San Joaquin’s Sheriff’s Office for buying an emergency command vehicle that is illegal to drive on California roads.
Title of the item: “Doofus of the Day.”
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A banner day
Sure, there all this drama about California’s water crisis. But there’s also a banner day coming: On Oct. 1st, the operators of Friant Dam will turn on the spigot and allow the first increased water releases to flow down the San Joaquin River.
That’s the result of the settlement to the 14-year-lawsuit environmentalists filed to reverse [...]
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Consider it done, Mr. Pace
Robert Pace, a student journalist at Sacramento City college, writes:
Though I currently live and attend school in Sacramento, I was born and raised in Stockton and my roots run deep in that city.
The Sac City College Express student newspaper has been around since 1922, but is only now taking its first real steps into the [...]
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Slowing the rolling
This hopeful message just in from Barbara Barrigan-Parilla of Restore the Delta:
We are hearing from various legislative offices in Sac and from those representing us in Sacramento that the legislators and the water bureaucrats are finally realizing that they cannot “go around” the Delta with the policies that they are pushing to create. While we [...]
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Cotton and corporate welfare
Reader Bob Hnath writes:
Sure hope you sent a copy of your column to Fox/Hannity, not that he would read it. You ought to ask him if he has the (guts) to read it on the air.
As to cotton, not only does it suck up a lot of water and use more pesticides than any other [...]
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Lodi prayer feud reaches climax