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Will Gov. Brown’s ‘small is beautiful’ sink water plan?
During California Gov. Jerry Brown’s first term in office, 1975 to 1983, one of the central planks of his political platform was “small is beautiful.” Brown borrowed his platform from economist E.F. Schumacher’s 1973 book, “Small is Beautiful: Economics as
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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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Diversity PAC: Ron Calderon’s slush fund for luxury
A shadowy political action committee cited in the FBI’s case against state Senator Ron Calderon, D-Montebello, has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on private jets, five-star hotels, elite golf courses and extravagant meals at the country’s finest restaurants,
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Expert: CA may need ‘paramilitary’ response to climate change
Paramilitary tactics may be necessary in California to prepare for, or head off, an apocalyptic future with flooded coastal communities, scorched central valleys and rampant wildfires in the Sierras. That was the advice and prediction from one of the
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Disability groups deliver petitions to Goodwill
Disability advocacy groups throughout the country are planning a sizeable delivery to Goodwill Industries today. But, instead of secondhand clothing or gently-used goods, the disability rights groups will be dropping off thousands of signed petitions from citizens who are
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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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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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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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