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Two from UOP help ID oil-eating bug
The weirdest science story of recent days is the too-good-to-be-true disappearance of the giant oil plume in the Gulf of Mexico caused by the BP oil rig explosion. A University of the Pacific professor and an engineering grad student were on the team that discovered the oil-gobbling bacteria.
Pacific Professor William Stringfellow, an environmental engineer, and graduate [...]
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Pension Godzilla menaces L.A.!
“A recent study by the city of Los Angeles, … found that pensions for police and fire retirees, 8 percent of the city’s general fund budget in 2009, will rise to 20 percent by 2015. It said total pension costs will consume a third of the budget by then.”
–Sacramento Bee columnist Dan Walters. All you [...]
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Who’s killing the Delta?
And who’s killing the salmon? “The Bullies of the Westlands.” The salmon industry’s new video.
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What ACE needs more
Thom. H. Magnuson writes:
“Yesterday’s column on the Stockton ACE Station was another “Bullseye”… I would like to add the following comment.
“Some time ago I needed to go to Pleasanton for the day. Not wanting to fight the traffic I checked the ACE schedule and headed for the Stockton station about 45 minutes before the scheduled [...]
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‘A new class struggle’
Which we touched on in today’s column – ”in California and across the nation—between taxpayers and government employees. Government employees have become the new privileged class.”
The Reason Foundation takes on overpaid government ‘public servants’ (more like the masters) here.
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A modest crimefighting proposal
So, a Swedish fighter jet is for sale at Stockton’s airport. Allow me to suggest that this aircraft could be an important tool in the Stockton Police Department’s battle against rising crime.
First, despite the city’s budget crunch, the aircraft is affordable. The J35 Draken interceptor, once priced at $499,000 — roughly ‘add pay’ on one firefighter’s wages – has been [...]
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The Council OKs pot shops
Marijuana is not harmless. Oh, using it is. But outlawing it has created narco-states building towards real menaces to national security. It has militarized local police departments. It has eroded precious civil liberties. Fighting it has cost a fortune and achieved nothing but reverses.
Allowing medical marijuana is no cakewalk, either. Pot shop operators are going to want [...]
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Ticketgate goes to the A.G.
Several items below, I proposed a policy governing free tickets at City Hall — Don’t Take Them. Not that I believe the Council is in legal hot water over accepting $145 worth of Asparagus Festival tickets and t-shirts. But there is a component of the African-American community that cannot or will not make a distinction between [...]
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The mystic side of organ transplants