Los Banos grew by 42 percent between 2000 and 2010, to a population of 37,000. Over the same period bankrupt Stockton grew 22.2 percent to reach a population of 298,000.
 
Throughout the epoch when Great Boom that turned into the Great Bust, creating a major Economic Depression in the nation, worst of all in the northern San Joaquin Valley, city officials, staff, developers, landowners, bankers, realtors, corporate newspaper chains and chambers of commerce argued continually at the top of their collective lungs that “RESIDENTIAL GROWTH PAYS FOR ITSELF.”
 

 A letter written by environmental opponents listed below of the latest draft of the Bay Delta Conservation Plan to representatives of NOAA Fisheries Service, Department of Interior Fisheries, US Environmental Protection Agency, US Fish & Wildlife Service. -- blj

 10-9-13

Let’s tell the richest farmers in the poorest states to keep their hands off federal farm subsidies and crop insurance.

Most people you talk to around Merced County--except students and faculty of UC Merced, of course--have a story or two about Foster Farms chicken plants. These stories are never good. In fact, they are a mordant local art form. But that's the production side. Here is a story from the consumer side that deserves a place among the best Foster Farms tales.-- blj
 
Bognar said she called a customer service hotline and a Foster Farms employee laughed at her -- Brandon Lowrey, NBCLA, Oct. 15, 2013
 
 
 
10-15-13

 
 
9-10-13
The Guardian (UK)
Food crisis fears prompt UN wake-up call to world leaders
By Claire Provost in Geneva This article was originally published by The Guardian on September 18, 2013
http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2013/sep/18/food-crisis-un-governments
 

This article ought to appear in every anthology of the finest environmental writing in English. -- blj
 
10-25/27-13
COUNTERPUNCH.COM
Obama's War on Wolves and the Endangered Species Act
Sacrificial Wolves
by JEFFREY ST. CLAIR