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The Green Job Frame, a Loose Cheeks Special Feature

Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tuesday, 20 May 2008

About a hundred people, many of them from Merced, got an education in UC intellectual bankruptcy this week at the old Merced Theatre during a forum on "Green Jobs." The event was organized by Kenny, the Monster UC Merced Faculty Spouse, and it featured a trio of top Bay Area speakers on everything green. After the Monster got the computers started (computer inadequacy is a hallmark of Monster Shows), we entered the world of "Framing and Reframing," a rhetorical confection created by UC Berkeley's Chomsky-Lite, Prof. George Lakoff.

Loose Cheeks, May 17, 2008

Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on Saturday, 17 May 2008

Loose Cheeks, May 17, 2008

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Loose Cheeks: Hot Tips
By Lucas Smithereen
Loose Cheeks Senior Editor

Got a hot tip for Loose Cheeks? Call the Loose Cheeks hot-tip line: (000) CHE-EEKS. We’ll get back to you whenever.

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Candidate for the 4th Supervisor District of Merced County Claudine Sherron's Responses to the Public’s Questions

Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thursday, 8 May 2008

Badlands dropped by City Hall tonight and caught a spirited debate between supervisor candidates running for the 2nd (City of Merced) and the 4th (rural east side) districts. The event was sponsored by the League of Women Voters and the Business and Professional Women of the county. We plan an article on the debate in a few days. Meanwhile, cruising the campaign-literature table we picked up an impressive paper from Claudine Sherron, running against 4th district incumbent Deidre Kelsey. We thought it was substantial and thoughtful. --editors
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One more modest proposal for a time of political bloat

Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sunday, 4 May 2008

No canal for Simitian yet

State Sen. Joe Simitian has been the sponsor of a new peripheral canal bill that failed in the state Assembly last week. Although Palo Alto, Simitian's hometown, gets its water from Hetch Hetchy, his district includes much of urban Santa Clara County, which gets northern California urban dwellers among the 20-25 million residents, north and south, who rely on the Delta for water.

Resource Conservation District Assistance Program watershed coordinator grant program

Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tuesday, 29 April 2008

Resource Conservation District Assistance Program watershed coordinator grant program
2007 Watershed Coordinator Grant Program Final Decision List

The Department of Conservation (Department) is pleased to announce its 2007 Watershed Coordinator Grant Program Final Decision.

Final Decision List (PDF) available at:
http://www.conservation.ca.gov/dlrp/RCD/Pages/Index.aspx

Tribute to Felix Smith, tenacious conscience

Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on Friday, 25 April 2008

Sacramento Bee
Lloyd G. Carter: A California water story of individual tenacity
http://www.sacbee.com/110/v-print/story/888598.html

You have to give 75-year-old Felix Smith of Carmichael credit for tenacity.

A quarter-century ago, Smith became the conscience of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service when he blew the whistle on the selenium poisoning of the Kesterson National Wildlife Refuge in western Merced County.

Brown CEQA letter MCAG

Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wednesday, 23 April 2008

EDMUND G. BROWN JR. State of California
Attorney General DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
1515 CLAY STREET
P.O. BOX 70550
OAKLAND, CA 94612-0550
Public; 510-622-2100
Telephone: 510-622-2145
Facsimile: 510-622-2270
E-Mail: sandra.goldberg@doj.ca.gov
April 18, 2007
By TeleCQPY and E-mail
Majorie Kim, Deputy Executive Director
Transportation Program Manager
Merced County Association of Govemments
369 W. 18~ Street
Merced, CA 95340

This year's speculative bubble

Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on Monday, 21 April 2008

This article raises two questions.
1. How much of the contest between Obama and Clinton is a contest between rival financial centers, Chicago and New York?
2. Given the large increases in grain plantings in Central California, will speculation in the grain markets affect the California farm economy this year?

Seyed the Improbable

Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sunday, 20 April 2008

Whenever I sense a freshening breeze in the evening here in the San Joaquin Valley after a beige day of sunlight and smog, my heart leaps with anticipation and the next morning I can hardly wait to open my newspaper. Why? Because I know that Seyed the Improbable will be there to reassure me that air pollution in the Valley is largely imaginary and that growth can continue and that we will all grow more prosperous without damaging our environment.Last night, I could hardly sleep at all, anticipating what the Improbable One would have to say on Earth Day.

UC Gargantua, the monthly update

Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on Saturday, 19 April 2008

With apologies to Rabelais, a question, not serious certainly: How did a large expanse of land, containing a majestic mountain range, a fertile plain often flooded, 15-20 raging rivers, a mountainous coast containing a few tiny seaports and some good bays, populated 160 years ago by 100 Indian tribes too small to do more than squirmish with each other, the owners of some scattered Mexican land grants, a string of mining camps in the Sierra foothills and the odd sailor or farmer, grow so large that it cannot provide enough water
for its present residents?