Merced County Director of Planning and Development Services, Robert A. “Bobby” Lewis, reportedly tendered his resignation on Friday. Numerous calls to different county offices to confirm the report met a stone wall.
Nevertheless, other sources convinced members of the Badlands Journal editorial board that the report was true.
 
The board issued a statement along with an article written when Lewis arrived nearly four years ago.
 
“He came under a cloud, worked under a cloud, left under a cloud.” – Badlands Journal editorial board

9-1-10
Lloygcarter.com
MORE DOUBTS ABOUT THE DROUGHT
USDA Figures show 2009, the so-called third year of drought in California, was the third highest yield of farm cash receipts in history
By Patrick Porgans
http://www.lloydgcarter.com/content/100901425_more-doubts-about-the-drought

...The solution lies in residents increasing their job skills, he (Kelvin Jasek-Rysdahl, an economics professor at California State University, Stanislaus) said. -- Modesto Bee, Sept. 15, 2010

9-16-10
The White House
Office of the Press Secretary
Statement by President Obama on Income, Poverty, and Health Coverage Data
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2010/09/16/statement-president-obama-income-poverty-and-health-coverage-data-releas