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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

Will Warren Buffett’s hydro prevent CA electricity crisis? — Part 2

Wayne Lusvardi November 11, 2013

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

Will Warren Buffett’s hydro prevent CA electricity crisis? — Part 1

Wayne Lusvardi November 8, 2013

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

Former state biologist challenges global warming status quo

Wayne Lusvardi November 3, 2013

Editor’s note: This article originally incorrectly said that the Jim Steele who wrote the book mentioned below is the same as the Jim Steele who is running for supervisor in Lake Country. They are not the same person. We regret

CA not enjoying TX-sized boom in revenues from oil

Wayne Lusvardi October 31, 2013

California increased its revenues last year by $8 billion a year, through passing the Proposition 30 and Proposition 39 tax increases. Texas has added even more to its revenues, but did so a different way. The fracking boom added

Delta’s ‘Cadillac Desert’ image blown out of the water

Wayne Lusvardi October 28, 2013

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

Wild card water bill surfaces with no earmarks

Wayne Lusvardi October 25, 2013

Is it possible to imagine this kind of water bill coming out of Congress? It would: custom essay order Include no political earmarks; Streamline environmental clearances for water projects; De-authorize $12 billion of backlogged dormant water projects; Take the selection

Gov. Brown's school plan pushes money, not reform

Wayne Lusvardi October 18, 2013

A year ago, Gov. Jerry Brown convinced voters to pass Proposition 30 on the November 2012 ballot. It raised taxes $7 billion, with most of the money promised for K-12 schools. This year, Brown included his school-financing reform package

Green actions cause one-third of human-caused earthquakes

Wayne Lusvardi October 16, 2013

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).

$Study questions whether fracking causes earthquakes$

Study questions whether fracking causes earthquakes

Wayne Lusvardi October 14, 2013

essay writing online A new 2013 study conducted by the University of Durham in the United Kingdom dispels the widespread contention that fracking is a major threat to triggering large earthquakes in California and the U.S. Fracking is the