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Food stamp usage soars despite job growth
Food stamp usage soars despite job growth
Fresh off the heels of Bureau of Labor Statistics findings that slightly fewer Americans were jobless in November – reflecting an expected uptick in temporary and seasonal employment, as well as a mas ...
07 Dec, 2011
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Turning down The Donald:  a new measure of Republican seriousness
Turning down The Donald: a new measure of Republican seriousness
In my view, the Republican Party’s only two serious candidates for President this weekend announced they had turned down the invitation to participate in the completely unserious Newsmax presidential ...
05 Dec, 2011
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Report:  California animal agriculture is a job creator
Report: California animal agriculture is a job creator
Over the past decade, California dairies, ranches and livestock farms have created 17,000 jobs for the state. A new report that analyzes federal data from 2000 to 2010 shows that the $289 billion a ye ...
30 Nov, 2011
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New business creation in California drops off a cliff
New business creation in California drops off a cliff
For most of the last decade, California was first or second in new business creation. In 2009, it ranked first. In 2010, new business creation imploded. Actually, that's an understatement. California ...
29 Aug, 2011
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3 min read
Poll: Double digit support for hypothetical Independent Presidential candidates
Poll: Double digit support for hypothetical Independent Presidential candidates
Late last week, Public Policy Polling released the results of a survey gauging support for seven potential Independent candidates for President in 2012.  Four out of the seven polled in the doubl ...
29 Aug, 2011
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Arizona counties to receive federal disaster relief
Arizona counties to receive federal disaster relief
Five Arizona counties have been designated by federal agriculture officials as primary natural disaster areas due to damage caused by ongoing drought and related disasters that began in January. Conti ...
24 Aug, 2011
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Placer County clears the air for Kings Beach
Placer County clears the air for Kings Beach
The situation for residents of Kings Beach, California has finally taken a turn for the better.  As we have reported here and here, this small town set hard against the North Lake Tahoe shore has ...
04 Aug, 2011
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3 min read
CEOs claim California is worst state for business
CEOs claim California is worst state for business
California ranked dead last in a poll of 556 CEOs asking which state is the best place to do business. While CEOs are certainly not an unbiased lot, they also have considerable say in where to open ne ...
18 Jul, 2011
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Green theology, crony capitalism, and California's renewable energy future
Green theology, crony capitalism, and California's renewable energy future
Lately, there's been a growing contrarian view of California's proposed renewable energy future. Instead of clean energy flowing seamlessly from solar, wind, and geothermal plants through a smart grid ...
16 Jun, 2011
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3 min read
Tahoe planning agenices won't let facts get in the way of environmental progress
Tahoe planning agenices won't let facts get in the way of environmental progress
The biomass plant being proposed for the small North Lake Tahoe community of Kings Beach looks more and more like a disaster in the making rather than a smart environmental advance.  As I reporte ...
02 Jun, 2011
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3 min read