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Blue Dog healthcare honcho accused of taking bribes

Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on Friday, 25 September 2009

"You can buy half the town for $420,000," said Adam Guthrie, chairman of the county Board of Equalization and the only licensed real estate appraiser in Prescott. -- Marcus Stern, ProPublica, Sept. 22, 2009
Rep. Mike Ross, Blue Dog-AR, is the chairman of the Blue Dog Coalition Healthcare Task Force, which also includes two Californians, representatives Mike Thompson and Loretta Sanchez. Ross is also accused of having taken bribes from a drug-store chain as part of the sale of a pharmacy he and his wife owned in his district.

9-24-09

Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thursday, 24 September 2009

 
9-24-09
Merced Sun-Star
Wal-Mart distribution center: Fewer people attend special meeting ahead of Monday vote...SCOTT JASON
http://www.mercedsunstar.com/167/v-print/story/1074995.html
Merced's need for jobs took center stage Wednesday as residents debated whether allowing a Wal-Mart distribution center to be built would be the wisest way to boost the area's fledgling economy.

Rodale critique of biotechnology convention

Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wednesday, 23 September 2009

Have you ever stopped to ask yourself how corporate propaganda is constantly trying to colonize the future? We'd like UC Merced, our own "high-tech, bio-tech engine of growth" right here in Merced CA to assign its best academic minds to explaining to us ordinary citizens what the future actually is so that the public might be in a better position to judge the claims of the endless stream of corporate flak about the future. For example, should the public take out a patent on the future before it is as cluttered with proprietary brands as outer space is cluttered with satellites?

After all the crap, some real numbers

Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tuesday, 22 September 2009

In a February letter to President Obama, Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Visalia, claimed, as he did in many other venues: "A simple measure that would save up to 80,000 jobs (in the lower San Joaquin Valley) would be to relax restrictions on pumping facilities in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Rivers Delta that have caused the regulatory drought that my constituents are experiencing."

What is Cardoza afraid of?

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

As things stand, the CPC -- not the unreliable and unfocused Blue Dogs and certainly not the Democratic Leadership Council-aligned "New Democrats," who come with more corporate strings attached than many Republicans -- are the best strategic and practical allies that the president has.

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