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State of CA worsened Desert Hot Springs’ financial problems
Desert Hot Springs is a poor city east of Banning. The city’s median income of $31,356 is 55 percent of California’s $57,287. It also has a reputation for crystal meth production straight out of the television series “Breaking Bad.” Hot
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Will Warren Buffett’s hydro prevent CA electricity crisis? — Part 2
This is Part 2 of a two-part series. Part 1 is here. In Part 1 of this series, I reported on how California is launching a regional “energy imbalancing market” to reduce the spike in the price of electricity each
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Will Warren Buffett’s hydro prevent CA electricity crisis? — Part 1
This is the first of two articles. Part 2 is here. California is trying to create what officially is called an “energy imbalance market” to cut off an emerging daily two-hour energy-pricing crisis. The crisis isn’t so much a technical
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Former state biologist challenges global warming status quo
Editor’s note: This article originally incorrectly said that the Jim Steele who wrote the book mentioned below is the same as the Jim Steele who is running for supervisor in Lake Country. They are not the same person. We regret
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CA not enjoying TX-sized boom in revenues from oil
California increased its revenues last year by $8 billion a year, through passing the Proposition 30 and Proposition 39 tax increases. Texas has added even more to its revenues, but did so a different way. The fracking boom added
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Delta’s ‘Cadillac Desert’ image blown out of the water
Probably the most mentally riveting figure of speech in the history of California nature writing has been the book, “Cadillac Desert: The American West and its Disappearing Water,” by the late Marc Reisner. Part of the book was about
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Wild card water bill surfaces with no earmarks
Is it possible to imagine this kind of water bill coming out of Congress? It would: custom essay order Include no political earmarks; Streamline environmental clearances for water projects; De-authorize $12 billion of backlogged dormant water projects; Take the selection
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Is the Golden State the greenest and fairest of them all?
How To Get Your Ex Back Over Text Is California the greenest and fairest state when it comes to clean fuel standard regulations? No on both counts, contended the Wall Street Journal in a recent editorial, “California’s Green Trade
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Gov. Brown's school plan pushes money, not reform
A year ago, Gov. Jerry Brown convinced voters to pass Proposition 30 on the November 2012 ballot. It raised taxes $7 billion, with most of the money promised for K-12 schools. This year, Brown included his school-financing reform package
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Green actions cause one-third of human-caused earthquakes
adobe cs6 trial download Green energy advocates in California and the U.S. are trying to throw a monkey wrench into the proliferation of fracking oil and gas by claiming it induces major earthquakes (see here, here, here and here).
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