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Back to homepageU.N. and CA environmental activists push agendas
April 1, 2013 By Warren Duffy In 2009, President Obama was preparing to attend a U.N. Conference in Copenhagen. The conference subject matter was “Climate Change.” That was a switch. The phrase replaced “Global Warming” as the U.N.’s primary environmental
Read MoreSalmon eating farmers along San Joaquin River
April 1, 2103 By Wayne Lusvardi As with the fish eating Jonah in the Bible story, salmon now are eating California farmers. The San Joaquin River is California’s longest river, running 366 miles from the Sierra Nevadas through the Central
Read MoreSo why is Google worth so much?
April 1, 2013 By John Seiler I kept hoping it was an April Fool’s Day joke. But the new Gmail from Google isn’t. It makes me wonder how they got to be worth so many billions. The new format opens
Read MorePensions at heart of bankruptcy
April 1, 2013 By Steven Greenhut SACRAMENTO — Few nonlocal people typically pay much attention to the goings-on in Stockton, a hard-pressed Gold Rush-era industrial city of about 300,000 that sits in the agriculturally rich San Joaquin Valley, at the
Read MoreReuters bests state media at covering San Bernardino’s collapse
April 1, 2013 By Chris Reed If you had to fashion a nut graph to explain why so many local California governments are in deep fiscal trouble, here’s my nominee for an honest generic overview: Over the past 20 years,
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