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Back to homepageProsperity agenda can overcome U.S., CA problems
April 6, 2013 By Ed Ring “Everything that can be invented has been invented.” Contrary to a common misconception, it was not Charles Duell, the Commissioner of the US patent office, who said that quote back in 1899. According to PatentlyO.com, and
Read MoreAB 32 never inspired anybody else
April 5, 2013 By John Seiler AB 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, was supposed to inspire other countries to follow the state in mandating the reduction of greenhouse gases, in particular by switching from such “dirty” energy
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What is CA’s bankruptcy-pension end game?
April 5, 2013 By Wayne Lusvardi In his absurdist play, “Endgame,” about a chess game where there are few pieces left on the board, Irish playwright Samuel Beckett wrote: “The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.”
Read MoreIs there ever any positive news about the bullet train?
April 4, 2013 By Chris Reed Is there ever any hard, legit good news about the California High-Speed Rail Authority’s plan to build a state bullet-train network? The stories last week about the U.S. Government Accountability Office depicting CHSRA’s ridership
Read MoreAnti-nuke activists aim at San Onofre
April 3, 2013 By Joseph Perkins Southern California Edison meets today with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. It hopes to persuade the feds to approve its proposed license amendment for San Onofre nuclear plant, which has been offline since January 2012 because
Read MoreBullet train bulldozes a new ‘Chinatown’
April 2, 2013 By Wayne Lusvardi Roman Polanski’s 1974 classic movie, “Chinatown,” was inspired by California’s water wars of almost a century ago. A modern day version of the movie seems to be playing out in California’s proposed bullet train
Read MoreU.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 MoreBullet train: Is L.A. Times’ beat reporter ashamed of edit page?
March 28, 2013 By Chris Reed There’s been quite a bit of good reporting done on the bullet-train fiasco. Mike Rosenberg of the San Jose Mercury-News and Lance Williams of California Watch jump to mind. But Ralph Vartabedian of the
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