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Anthony Pignataro: Everyone in the office had a lot of fun with this list of the top 50 words that give readers of NYTimes.com the most trouble. Sui generis? That’s what they use to call pigs on farms, right? How
Read MoreGreen-job future a fraud
JUNE 1, 2010 By JOHN SEILER California’s unemployment rate remains stubbornly high, at 12.6 percent. That’s 2.7 percentage points above the national average. The persistence of unemployment also is something Californians haven’t seen since the Great Depression. The May 30
Read MoreDraconian water plan unveiled
MAY 3, 2010 By SUSAN M. TRAGER Water is the lifeblood of California. Throughout the state’s history, it has formed the core of political and economic battles. It is actually more important than gold, a commodity that can be mined
Read MoreAz boycott would hurt Cal
Just when you thought state politicians couldn’t harm California any more, they’ve come up with a scheme to boycott Arizona businesses and governments that do business in California. But one of the reasons America is so prosperous is because we
Read MoreDominy lives
Today’s LA Times carries the obituary of one Floyd Elgin Dominy, who ran the U.S. Bureau of Land Reclamation from 1959 to 1969 and lived to be 100. Dominy was the greatest builder of New Deal government work projects. He
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PG&E bankrolls Proposition 16
APRIL 27, 2010 By JOHN SEILER For better or worse, California’s initiative and referendum laws allow initiatives that might or might not help the state, letting the people – sometimes not always well-informed – make the final choice on Election
Read MoreGreenlining series: Another ACORN-like menace?
This is the fourth part of a series produced by CalWatchdog and the Examiner regarding the Berkeley-based Greenlining Institute, a low-income housing advocacy group that critics say intimidates banks and helped cause the housing meltdown. By TORI RICHARDS Both use
Read MoreE-Waste bill passes out of committee
Senator Jenny Oropeza’s SB1052, which rationalize state agencies’ approach to electronic waste, passed out of the Senate Environmental Quality Committee this afternoon, according to a press release sent out by Oropeza’s office. “I am alarmed the California State Auditor has
Read MoreMoonbeam is as Moonbeam does
APRIL 5, 2010 Now that Attorney General Jerry Brown has officially announced his candidacy for governor, we’re getting to re-live some California political history as pundits and reporters think back to Brown’s first stint as governor along with some of
Read MoreState violates e-waste rules
March 31, 2010 By ANTHONY PIGNATARO Despite a state Auditor’s report and a four-year-old law that prohibits consumers from throwing old and broken electronic devices into the trash, many state agencies are apparently still throwing computers, television sets, radios, printers,
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