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Sacramento's "tortured middle way"

 Thanks to Sacramento’s man on the U.S. Supreme Court, Judge Anthony Kennedy, who created the meaningless “significant nexis” to determine the connectivity of waters to navigable streams, federal resource agencies have been up a creek as far as knowing their jurisdiction to enforce the Clean Water Act.

105 Citizen Groups Criticize Anti-Democratic Rulemaking

 For Immediate ReleaseAugust 21, 2008 Contact: Jon Hunter, Endangered Species Coalition (202) 476-0669   Tara Thornton, Endangered Species Coalition (207) 268-2108        105 Citizens Groups Criticize Anti-Democratic RulemakingBush Administration to Cripple Endangered Species Act with Little Public Input, Oversight WASHINGTON-- Today, representatives from 105 conservation and scientific organizations representing millions of American’s submitted a letter to Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne and Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez calling for increased transparency and opportuniti

8-18-08

8-18-08Merced Sun-StarLetter: Is Planada's Measure O illegal?...BRYANT OWENS, DAVID C. CORSER, ELIZABETH K. MILLER...Planada Community Association http://www.mercedsunstar.com/177/story/403311.htmlDear Editor: We met with Superintendent Steve Gomes on Wednesday and were told that Measure O, the Planada Elementary School District general obligation bond, would require 66 percent of the vote to pass.

8-19-08

 8-19-08Merced Sun-StarFox makes Merced College jog magical...Victor Patton...Reporters' Notebookhttp://notebook.mercedsunstar.com/fox_makes_merced_college_jog_magicalI was running around the track at Merced College yesterday and a semi-magical moment happened: I had my first close-up glimpse of a wild fox.I know -- a lot of y’all are probably saying, "So what, big deal?"... The fox that I saw yesterday, however, was about six feet away fro

8-21-08

 8-21-08Merced Sun-StarPublic NoticeCORRECTED NOTICE PUBLIC HEARING A Public Hearing Notice for Villages of Laguna San Luis Community Plan Community Plan 07-002 Villages of Laguna San Luis Consortiumhttp://www.legalnotice.org/pl/mercedsun-star/ShowNotice.aspxCORRECTED NOTICE PUBLIC HEARING A Public Hearing Notice for Villages of Laguna San Luis Community Plan Community Plan 07-002 Villages of Laguna San Luis Consortiu

Special Places for Special People

Jim Marshall, city manager of the City of Merced, intoned theologically in the UK Financial Times on Tuesday that there “should be a special place in hell for” speculators, mainly from the Bay Area, who bought McMansions in Merced, took out subprime loans and tried to flip them before the first balloon payments hit.

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