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Parcel tax change wouldn't help poor schools
sms spy android Does government need to grab more money for schools? One way to get it is to make it easier to pass local parcel taxes. So finds a new study from the Public Policy Institute of California.
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Will 'trapped loans' snag Richmond's home scheme?
phone spy software The City of Richmond's move to seize the loans of over-mortgaged homes can continue, U.S. District Court Judge Charles Breyer ruled this week. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the reason was because “he felt the
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CA electricity duel pits imports against mass battery storage
how to get a girlfriend There's an old California saying, “Water runs uphill toward money.” Now California also wants electrons to flow against the laws of economics and possibly local environmental standards and neighborhood values. The California Public Utilities Commission
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Enviro policies spike CA electricity prices 70 percent
Californians are starting to pay for the cost of the state's Draconian environmental laws. Wholesale electricity market prices spiked about 70 percent over last year. So reports the Independent System Operator that manages California’s electric transmission and distribution line grids. The reasons given
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Cadiz blending pipeline cuts salt in water
California farmers harvest more than 1.7 billion strawberries every year. Reducing the salt content in irrigation water is critical to growing strawberries without “salt blight.” “Salt blight” symptoms include “leaf scorch” at the edge of leaves, stunted plant growth, dead
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Federal judge rebuffs CalPERS, OK’s San Bernardino bankruptcy
In a victory for taxpayers, a federal judge ruled Wednesday that the City of San Bernardino is eligible to file for bankruptcy. That trumped the claims of the California Public Employees Pension System that the court had the paramount right
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Water Policy: ‘New normal’ for lower Colorado River lakes is, actually, normal
It is being proclaimed that there is a “new normal” of historic low water levels for reservoirs along the Lower Colorado River due to “climate change.” But a closer look beyond the photos of bathtub rings along the banks of
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Nitrogen fix could cancel CA fertilizer tax
A natural bacterial colonization process could end the proposed regulation of agricultural nitrate and taxation of fertilizer in California. Energy costs to produce synthetic nitrogen fertilizers could also be eliminated. It could also eventually render unnecessary overkill stormwater regulations in
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Micro-managed grid short-circuting CA market electricity
In Germany, merchant-energy companies are considering moving to other countries where they can make a profit. Such companies are private firms that operate electricity generators. They are separate from public utilities, such as the Southern California Edison Company, or
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Rainfall study contradicts CA water policy
In the mid-1970s, it was common for many Santa Barbara County communities to deny water meters to limit growth and development. Santa Barbara experienced periodic droughts up until 1991, when it finally built a pipeline connecting to the State Water
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