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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
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
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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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
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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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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California: the zombie state
It certainly seems that way sometimes, doesn't it? The California legislature shambles around, bumping into things, with no apparent sense of direction. Issues that managed to get resolved quickly in ...
30 May, 2011
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A Bio-Mess in Kings Beach
A hand-lettered sign at the corner of Speckled and Bear Avenues in Kings Beach, CA -- two narrow lanes by most city's standards -- cries out for attention to those passing eastbound toward CA-267:&nbs ...
26 May, 2011
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California's renewable energy standards pose practical and economic challenges
Riverside Public Utilities thought they had locked in a deal for renewable energy that would put them comfortably ahead of the new California law mandating that all utilities be 33% renewable by 2020. ...
05 May, 2011
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California's budget fiasco
California budget negotiations have an eternal air of unreality about them. Negotiators make lofty assumptions about income and revenue, only to be proven wrong later. Complicated proposals requiring ...
02 May, 2011
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