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10-2-09
Merced Sun-Star
UC Merced earns honor for environmental efforts
Governor's award recognizes green practices...DANIELLE GAINES
http://www.mercedsunstar.com/167/v-print/story/1091070.html
The UC Merced campus, flush with solar energy programs and Earth-friendly buildings, has been recognized once again for its environmental stewardship.

 
9-30-09
Merced Sun-Star
Wal-Mart distribution center: Appeals period begins
Opponents have one month to file lawsuits to stop the project...SCOTT JASON
http://www.mercedsunstar.com/167/v-print/story/1086257.html
For the next month, it's a waiting game.

 
Merced Sun-Star Executive Editor Mike Tharp flew part of the Westside in a private plane with a realtor/Westside rancher named Gail McCullough and came back with revelations. It reminded him of Iraq, where he seems to need to go, whenever the reality of Merced and the San Joaquin Valley overwhelm him, to find refreshment in the Pentagon propaganda mill. You can sugar-coat failure with belief but it is still failure, out there on the imperial frontier or here at home.
 

The Merced City Council is to be commended for holding two lengthy public hearings on the WalMart distribution center project including citizens with sharply opposed views on health, human safety and economic growth, who spoke their mind in an orderly, safe process. This begs the lie of Rep. Dennis Cardoza, the Pimlico Kid, that citizens in his district could not meet together in town hall meetings to discuss health care reform. In fact, on another contentious issue, Riverside Motorsports Park, a large number of town hall meetings were held, some by proponents, some by opponents.