Badlands Journal
Social, Economic, and Environmental Justice
Be there or be square!
For Immediate Release:
December 17, 2007
Contact: Melissa Kelly-Ortega, (209) 261-7109, Lisa Kayser-Grant (209) 769-2233
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Community Leaders to Hold Clean Air Vigil
Advocates Will Urge Air District to Plan for Attainment of State Health Based PM 2.5 standards At Tuesday Workshop
California Environmental Quality Act Guidelines
15061 Review for Exemption
15061 (b) 3:
The activity is convered by the general rule that CEQA applies only to projects which have the potential for causing a significant effect on the environment. Where it can be seen with certainty that there is no possibility that the activity in question may have a significant effect on the environment, the activity is not subject ot CEQA.
The problem laboriously presented by the UC Berkeley researchers in their study of Wal-Mart's effects on retail wages and benefits isn't so much the percentage of loss as what it indicates: a general decline rather than advance in worker wages throughout the US, since the dim beginnings of the Trilateral Commission more than 30 years ago. Off-shoring of US industry in search of cheaper wages has produced Wal-Mart, a cancer on the American economy that peddles cheap foreign junk produced by workers elsewhere who could not survive in the US economy even if they shopped only at Wal-Mart.
At the meeting held on November 19 at the Agricultural Extension conference room, a quorum of East Merced Resource Conservation District board members was present: Glenn Anderson, Bernard Wade, Cathy Weber, Bob Bliss and county Planning Commissioner Cindy Lashbrook and EMRCD staff, Karen Whipp…so this was also an EMRCD meeting, regardless of the view of some RCD directors that the RCD is a completely private institution not subject to such pesky laws. Last month, if readers recall, the Merced River Stakeholders held two meetings simultaneously.
National debt grows $1 million a minute
By TOM RAUM, Associated Press Writer
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071203/ap_on_go_ot/nation_in_debt
WASHINGTON - Like a ticking time bomb, the national debt is an explosion waiting to happen. It's expanding by about $1.4 billion a day — or nearly $1 million a minute.
What's that mean to you?
It means almost $30,000 in debt for each man, woman, child and infant in the United States.
GE_News
11-30-07
A Marriage of Genetic Engineering and Organic Farming
Tomorrow's Table: A Marriage of Genetic Engineering and Organic Farming (Hardcover)
by Pamela C. Ronald (Author), R. W. Adamchak (Author)
Description from the publisher:
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20071130_conservative_or_just_plain_...
Constituents of Rep. Dennis Cardoza, Shrimp Slayer-Merced, received on Friday a newsletter titled "Foreclosure Event," announcing a foreclosure-counseling session in Stockton for Saturday, co-hosted by Rep. Jerry "HighTek" McNerney, Pombo's Replacement-Pleasanton. On the surface, this is one more episode in the Denny Show in which the ol' slayer demonstrates his compassion for constituents (on one day's notice).
Wall Street Journal
11-26-07
Schumer's Letter on FHLB Loans
Sen. Charles Schumer, a New York Democrat, urged regulators to examine potential risks posed by a sharp increase in lending by the Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta to Countrywide Financial Corp., the nation's biggest mortgage lender. The following is his letter to regulators.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119610390093704160.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
November 26, 2007
One of the things that emerged from farm labor conflicts in the 1960s was the need for more permanent farmworker housing. The town of Planada became a target for efforts to achieve that goal and much work was done by many good people through the years to make it possible for farmworkers to own homes in Planada.
Following stories have been collected by Ecological Farming Association's GE News, the indispensable electronic clipping service on genetic engineering.
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