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Raptor and POW file two suits to protect Merced River

Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thursday, 14 August 2008

Press release: For Immediate Use !! ******* Press release: For Immediate Use !! Raptor and POW file two suits to protect Merced River MERCED (Aug. 11, 2008) — San Joaquin Raptor Rescue Center and Protect Our Water (POW) filed two California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) lawsuits in Merced County Superior Court this week. Petitioners sued Merced County, the Merced County Board of Supervisors and Christopher Robinson, alleging four arbitrary and capricious actions of abuse of discretion in approving a series of parcel splits.

Cardboard babble on the outskirts

Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thursday, 14 August 2008

“OUR VOICE…OUR ISSUES…OUR CONGRESSMANDENNIS CARDOZA”(who moved his family to Washington DC, taking a physician from the famously medically underserved Valley with him, leaving a whole rooftop of solar panels behind) Loose Lips: …Friday, Mar. 14, 2008Is Cardoza abandoning the Valley?http://www.mercedsunstar.com/167/story/182480.htmlLoose Lips readers, your congressman has left the zip code.Lips has learned that the long-rumored move of Rep. Dennis Cardoza (D-Packing Up) is now a reality.

Sunshine on defamation

Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thursday, 14 August 2008

Badlands Journal continues its Sunshine period on local government with this series of correspondence regarding contributors to various lawsuits brought by the San Joaquin Raptor Rescue Center through the years, particularly contributions made by the Kelsey Family.
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From: SJRRC [mailto:sjrrc@sbcglobal.net]
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 5:39 PM
To: SJRRC
Cc: San Joaquin Raptor Rescue Center; protectourwater@sbcglobal.net; SJRRC

Whipped

Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thursday, 14 August 2008

K. L. Whipp & Co. Inc.
731 E. Yosemite Ave., Site B
PMB304
Merced, CA 95340
Phone: 209.723.6755
Fax: 209.723.0880
E-mail: info@klwhippandco.com
www.klwhippandco.com
Professional Services:
Grant Writing & Management
Strategic and Business Planning
Economic Impact Studies & Marketing
Executive Services For:
Event Planning
Board Meetings
Focus Workshops
Event Fundraisers

Border canal seepage

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

The US/Mexican border is a place generally despised by the interiors of both nations. The general idea is that the border is to be exploited for whatever you can get out of it.

UC prestige and opulence

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

“UC gets $8 million to study San Joaquin Valley's bad air...” (1) trumpets this morning’s Fresno Bee. Variously called “the most” or “one of the most” polluted air basins in the nation, depending on the month or the intent of the writer, San Joaquin Valley air is bad, Fresno’s childhood asthma rate is four times the national average, and things aren’t getting any better.

Badlands predicted several years ago that UC Merced would be picking up grants to study this public health issue, which is also becoming an agricultural productivity issue – because it was perfectly predictable.

Are mergers and acquisitions the best path to public health in California?

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

Are mergers and acquisitions the best path to public health in California?
Novartis never left

Bill Hatch – Nov. 5, 2005

At a county health clinic in Merced last week, hundreds of people, mostly elderly, waited for about an hour, in and out of doors, for their flu shots, made available for $2 due to a law authored by Valley Assemblyman John Thurman, D-Modesto, years ago. We quipped in the line that no one not old enough to remember John belonged in the line.

We were lucky, according to the Sacramento Bee Nov. 5 story, Flu-shot supplies lagging for US:

McClatchy salsa

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

Salsa McClatchy Badlands Journal replies to Sacramento Bee editorial on Pombo Bill Hatch -- Nov. 2, 2005 The Sacramento Bee editorial, Pombo mambo, actually looks like the McClatchy Co. going after a bad actor in Congress, one of DeLay’s wretched little henchmen, while the Hammer is back in Texas under indictment for illegal campaign funding. Although green is not really McClatchy’s color, like any good editorial, Pombo mambo provokes thought. For example, how can Sacramento Bee editorialists mention Pombo’s Gut-the-ESA bill without mentioning its co-author, Rep.

Hearst v. UC

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

In California, you still don’t want to get the Hearsts too angry with you. The arrogance and often ludicrous propaganda of the University of California has been for years more than a match for state Legislature committees and Congress, but apparently it has finally managed to irritate the Hearsts. There are rules, after all, and at least some newspapers will eventually get fed up with a diet of pure flak from a university.

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