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Politics clogs solutions to Delta water problems

Sept. 25, 2012 By Wayne Lusvardi Members of “Restore the Delta” have recently accused Gov. Jerry Brown of telling a “whopper” that fixing levees in the Sacramento Delta is not feasible. Brown’s accusers are: Robert Pike and Barbara-Barrigan Parilla. Pike

AB 296 could make Gov. Brown a global warming ‘denier’

CalWatchdog Staff August 31, 2012

Aug. 31, 2012 By Wayne Lusvardi A piece of legislation may end up putting Gov. Jerry Brown on the global warming “denier” hot seat. It’s AB 296, the Cool Pavements Research and Implementation Act, sponsored by Assembly Member Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley. That is because if

J.B. says reforming CEQA is ‘Lord’s Work’

CalWatchdog Staff August 28, 2012

Aug. 28, 2012 By Wayne Lusvardi In Archibald MacLeish’s 1958 play, “J.B.,” the devil disguised as a popcorn vendor destroys the property and children of a wealthy banker named “J.B.” to test his faithfulness to God. God, portrayed as a balloon

Brown’s and CARB’s Tahoe-ist Environmentalism Killing Jobs

CalWatchdog Staff August 14, 2012

Aug. 14, 2012 By Wayne Lusvardi Gov. Jerry Brown once dabbled in the concept of “Tao” in Zen Buddhist religion. William Voegeii says that what explains Jerry Brown’s “Tao” is his rejection of his father’s values. But it isn’t Brown’s,

Southern Califiornia’s new pact with the Delta water devil

CalWatchdog Staff July 30, 2012

July 30, 2012 By Wayne Lusvardi If you dine with the Sacramento Delta water devil, you better have a long spoon. That might be the lesson that Southern California should have learned after being stuck with a $283 million bill

Delta tunnel is a big drain compared to bullet train

CalWatchdog Staff July 12, 2012

July 11, 2012 By Wayne Lusvardi Who could have guessed it? A proposed water conveyance tunnel through the Sacramento Delta is a greater economic boondoggle than the California High-Speed Rail Authority. That’s the conclusion of Jeffrey Michael, director of the

Legislature deep-sixes Gov. Brown’s education ‘reform’

CalWatchdog Staff June 19, 2012

June 19, 2012 By Lance T. Izumi Last week, I wrote about Governor Jerry Brown’s weighted-student-formula proposal, which attached a base state-funding amount plus various supplemental amounts to individual students that would then be collected by school districts. The plan