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Citizens for Intelligent Growth town-hall meeting

RAPID URBAN GROWTH WILL REQUIRE RAPIDLY WIDENED STREETS. IS YOUR LIVING ROOM SAFE? FOUR AND SIX LANE EXPANSIONS ARE PART OF THE MASTER PLAN OF THE CITY OF LIVINGSTON AND WILL BE ONE OF THE KEY TOPICS WHEN CITIZENS FOR INTELLIGENT GROWTH HOSTS AN INFORMATIVE TOWN HALL MEETING SEPTEMBER SIXTH AT THE VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS HALL IN LIVINGSTON. FARMLAND PRESERVATION, WASTEWATER ISSUES AND AVAILABILITY OF GROUND WATER WILL ALSO BE DISCUSSED. FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT JIM ALVERNAZ AT 394-3337.

Grateful Badlands refuses Regents' recognition

" In his paper, Blum said the office of the president "should become a model for transformation to efficiency and service, rather than the frequent butt of jokes and cynicism." --Los Angeles Times, Aug. 23, 2007

Blum also pressed the importance of nurturing the newest campus, Merced, to ensure its success and suggested creating a task force to oversee the needs there. --San Francisco Chronicle, Aug. 23, 2007

Badlands Journal editorial leader, "Nimble" McMayhem, said Thursday,

Merced River Stakeholders public minutes of East Merced Resource Conservation District board meetings

To:
Gwen Huff, Merced Alliance/RCD Watershed Coordinator/Merced River Stakeholders Facilitator
Karen Whipp, Merced Alliance/RCD Grant Administrator

From:
Members of the Merced River Stakeholders

Re: Merced River Stakeholders public minutes of East Merced Resource Conservation District meetings

Date: August 22, 2007

Where giants reign

Recently accused by a local planning commissioner of being a dishonest journalist, I reviewed my notebooks for moral reassurance. I found notes from an interview I once did with a city planning-department staffer in charge of maps. This Galilean fundamentalist believed that geography was the queen of the sciences and would set us free. I honestly reported this lunacy for the local newspaper.

Three pieces of UC flak in search of a headline

Robert Dynes, appointed by the Regents of the University of California as UC president on June 11, 2003, is stepping down. Love is the reason UC flaksters have confected. It being UC, the new bride was immediately appointed an Associate of the President, an honorific promotion from legal counsel at UCSD for which it is unimaginable there was not some nuptual emolument of public funds. The president would have known we the Californians would have settled for nothing less.

Water Board Acknowledges It Can’t Protect Water Quality

California Sportfishing Protection Alliance
“An Advocate for Fisheries, Habitat and Water Quality”
3536 Rainier Avenue, Stockton, CA 95204
Tel: 209-464-5067, Fax: 209-464-1028, E: deltakeep@aol.com

For immediate release:
9 August 2007

For information:
Bill Jennings, CSPA Executive Director, 209-464-5067, 209-938-9053 (cell)

Work in progress

I was recently asked to produce a bibliography of "essential books" on the San Joaquin Valley.

Argh!

A dozen favorites leapt to mind; a few days later a dozen more; and the pleasant task began to turn into a real project destined for certain failure and remorse. It turns out not to be so easy to remember the books of a lifetime and each dive into the Internet provides more that look very useful but I haven't had time to read yet.

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