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Back to homepageMWD Chairman In The Tank
Please see the comments and corrections posted at the end of this story. OCT. 13, 2010 By WAYNE LUSVARDI An old fashioned method of water conservation was to put a brick in the water tank of your toilet. The Metropolitan
Read MoreUC Physicist: Global Warming A Fraud
OCT. 11, 2010 By WAYNE LUSVARDI Harold Lewis, Professor of physics emeritus at University of California at Santa Barbara has resigned from membership in the top professional association for physicists in America saying that “the money flood” has corrupted science
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New ‘Green’ Law Is Union Giveaway
OCT. 4, 2010 By WAYNE LUSVARDI Will a new law mandating green power storage facilities along green pathway electric transmission lines paradoxically result in short circuiting green power in California? Or is this new law mostly symbolic to help Jerry
Read MoreProp. 25 Will Weaken Prop. 13
SEPT. 27, 2010 By WAYNE LUSVARDI What voters and even taxpayers associations don’t seem to recognize about the upcoming November election in California is that if enacted Proposition 25 would provide an opportunity for school districts to pass parcel taxes
Read MoreTax Hike Idea Ignores 'Capitalization'
SEPT. 22, 2010 By WAYNE LUSVARDI San Francisco Chronicle Columnist Debra Saunders has proposed raising the annual rate of property tax increase allowed under Proposition 13 from 2 percent to 2.5 percent to solve the state budget crisis (see “What I Would Do If I Were Governor,”
Read MoreEnding Earmarks Saved CA Schools
SEPT. 19, 2010 By WAYNE LUSVARDI The prevailing public media perception is that raiding redevelopment agency funds in 2010 saved California’s public schools from devastating funding cutbacks. Actually, a little-known piece of legislation in 2009 saved the public schools in 2010
Read MoreWater Keeps CA's Welfare State Liquid
SEPT. 14, 2010 By WAYNE LUSVARDI Book Review: Running Out of Water: The Looming Crisis and Solutions To Conserve Our Most Precious Resource (Palgrave, 2010). Mark Twain once wrote: “Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt” using a malapropism on
Read MoreFunds for Moonbeam's sick buildings
SEPT. 2, 2010 By WAYNE LUSVARDI California newspaper editorials cry out that it is “outrageous” and “unacceptable” that almost a year after Congress granted California $25 million in Stimulus Funds to make state buildings more energy efficient that only one
Read MorePasadena seeks sanctuary
JULY 23, 2010 By WAYNE LUSVARDI Judicial Watch, a non-profit public interest legal foundation, filed a complaint July 10 in Los Angeles County Superior Court alleging the Pasadena Police Department (PPD) has been non-responsive for over 30 days to its June 4 request for public
Read More‘Ghosts’ haunt Brown?
JULY 8, 2010 By WAYNE LUSVARDI Will a set of Green Power plants in northern California planned in the 1970s under former California Gov. Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown’s administration and shut down in 1990 because they were running in the red
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