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Wall Street protest enters second month, global demonstrations take place over weekend
Coordinated protests were held in cities around the world over the weekend as the Occupy Wall Street demonstration entered its second full month. On Saturday, people gathered by the thousa...
California meth use still a problem
California is so geographically huge with such a large population, that problems which are sometimes more evident elsewhere are also problems here too, even if they may not get as much attention. One ...
Solyndra bankruptcy and its inevitable impact on California renewable energy
Solyndra executives, CEO Brian Harrison and CFO Bill Stover, were pummeled in a Congressional hearing last Friday, mostly by Republicans who wanted to know what happened to the $528 million in federal...
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...
New EPA regulations could impact Arizona
The Navajo Generating Station near Page, AZ uses about 8 million tons of coal a year to provide 2.25 GW of power and nearly 95% of the electricity for the huge pumps on the Central Arizona Project can...
Concentrated solar power projects moving ahead in California
Two major concentrated solar power (CSP) projects in California received major funding from the Department of Energy last week while a third got a go-ahead after determining a plan to ensure that dese...
Water wars re-emerge as Cadiz proposes major storage project
Virtually all of California's water comes from someplace other than where it is consumed. Water travels through hundreds of miles of aqueducts inside the state, from the Sacramento Delta to the Centra...
California May farm update
Good news from the state Department of Water Resources: the two major California snowpacks are standing well above-average. Measurements taken this week show levels in the Sierra Nevada to be at 144 p...
March farm update
Large specialty crop farmers are reassessing their spring planting plans because of rising fuel prices. Many farmers are considering planting more subsidized crops such as corn and cotton as market pr...
Independents gather for national conference in New York City
On Saturday, hundreds of Independents from across the country gathered in New York City for the CUIP’s National Conference of Independents entitled, “Can Independents Reform America?” The con...