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A small price to pay

Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on Saturday, 16 January 2010

It's a wonder UC Merced didn't also take credit for helping invent some of the grimmest real estate statistics in the country. It certainly has a right to that "honor" along with all the awards and recognitions it's claimed in recent Golden Bobcatflak.
Too humble, evidently.
Badlands Journal editorial board
1-14-10
Merced Sun-Star
Grim real estate statistics: Merced County leads state in foreclosures, #6 in nation
In 2009, 1 out of 10 properties got bank repossession filings...DANIELLE E. GAINES

800# sociopaths

Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tuesday, 12 January 2010

Everything about state Sen. Lois Wolk's career, from teaching high school, Davis City councilwoman and mayor, Yolo County supervisor, and assemblywoman before becoming senator expresses one overwhelming focu -- care; care for disadvantaged people, the sick, and the human and natural communities connected to the San Joaquin Delta. Even when under enormous, unfair and shameful attack from fellow politicians like our governor, the Hun, and state Sen.

Sacrifice is needed now

Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tuesday, 5 January 2010

Every year about this time, California begins an annual religious rite, taking snow measurements in the Sierra and speculating on their meaning. California, which once worshipped conventional, modern gods has regressed, as its population and agribusiness has outstripped its water supply, to a more primitive, more energetic diety -- the Storm God.

The poetry is in the details

Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thursday, 31 December 2009

12-31-09
Merced Sun-Star
Merced County's economic woes hit hard in 2009...DANIELLE E. GAINES. Reporters Jonah Owen Lamb and Corinne Reilly contributed to this story.
http://www.mercedsunstar.com/167/v-print/story/1254070.html
Jobless rate jumps; property values plummet
For the whole of 2009, Merced County's jobless rate topped 15 percent, reaching a high of 20.2 percent in March.

Whey drinkers of Hilmar, rejoice!

Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wednesday, 30 December 2009

Followers of the pollution caused by Hilmar Cheese, "the world's largest cheese plant" (WLCP), will recall that whenever the wastewater pollution achieves a level that state regulators can no longer comfortably ignore, the WLCP comes up with yet a new "black box" technology and requests an exemption from regulation to try it out for a few years.

Environmental injustice in a nutshell

Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sunday, 27 December 2009

The essence of environmental injustice

Of 20 children known born in Kettleman City between September 2007 and November 2008, five had a cleft in their palate or lips, according to a health survey by activists. Three of those children have since died. Statewide, clefts of the lip or palate routinely occur in fewer than one in 800 births, according to California health statistics.
Besides these health problems, activists point to the high asthma and cancer rates in this largely Spanish-speaking farming community. -- Sacramento Bee, 12-22-09

"Got who, exactly?" journalism

Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sunday, 27 December 2009

Having attended the Federal Energy Resources Commission's meetings for the last year about Merced Irrigation District's relicensing application for its hydro-electric plant on Exchequer Dam, we never noticed a Merced Sun-Star reporter in attendance. Therefore, we question the totally unsourced story and correction below. The title of the story is unfortunate because no "environmentalists" are mentioned in the story, only several federal and state resource agencies charged with regulating federal and state laws.

State air board caves to truckers

Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on Monday, 21 December 2009

Special interests can't run a government that protects its citizens
The Fresno Bee on Monday praised the California Air Resources Board’s decision to roll back the new, tougher regulations on diesel emissions. California contains the two worst air-pollution basins in the United States, Los Angeles and the San Joaquin Valley.

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