To the community, Several months ago at JPA public meetings on Measure R, I made arguments similar to those in Stephen Reinhard’s recent letter opposing Measure R. Unlike Reinhard who didn’t attend any of the meetings, I participated in all of the JPA public meetings, and learned about important facts Reinhard has wrong. The JPA […]
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By George Skelton, Los Angeles Times Don Perata remembers the mood and expectations when the Legislature passed a massive $37-billion public works program in 2006. The mood was jubilant, the former Senate leader recalls. Legislators had acted in a very rare bipartisan fashion. And the expectation was that the record-size bond package — pushed hard […]
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By Eugene Robinson, Washington Post For the clueless or cynical diehards who deny global warming, it’s getting awfully cold out there. The latest icy blast of reality comes from an eminent scientist whom the climate-change skeptics once lauded as one of their own. Richard Muller, a respected physicist at the University of California, Berkeley, used […]
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To the community, My name is Ernie Claudio and I was on the STPUD board of directors for two years in 2007. The only candidates I met while on the board were Dale Rise and John Runnels. These two candidates have proven their ability to say “No” to the STPUD management. STPUD or the district […]
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By California Emergency Management Agency The fall season is a festive and fun time of year for children and families, but a stressful and dangerous time for many pets. The California Emergency Management Agency (CalEMA) reminds Californians to take special precautions to ensure the safety of their pets, and those who may come in contact […]
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To the community, To make a big impression on the big financial institutions, primarily Bank of America and Wells Fargo, move your business to a smaller, local bank; refinance your mortgage with a local lender; do all you can to avoid any business with the “robber barons”. Doing this on a nationwide scale might make […]
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By David Carr, New York Times Almost two weeks ago, USA Today put its finger on why the Occupy Wall Street protests continued to gain traction. “The bonus system has gone beyond a means of rewarding talent and is now Wall Street’s primary business,” the newspaper editorial stated, adding: “Institutions take huge gambles because the […]
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To the community, I watched and listened to Mayor Hal Cole’s state of the city speech. There are two parts to any speech, substance and tone. On substance, Mayor Cole outlined the city’s needs and problems comprehensively. He said the city is solvent and will keep a 25 percent general fund reserve. He said we […]
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Publisher’s note: This editorial is from the Oct. 22, 2011, Orange County Register. In the design of America’s founders, the states are supposed to be centers of democratic experiment. They’re not supposed to be uniform. For example, even though alcohol Prohibition ended in 1933, local laws restricting sales exist in 33 states. In Arkansas, more […]
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By Ed Smith University of Nevada Cooperative Extension, in collaboration with Nevada’s firefighting organizations, recently hosted the Nevada Wildland-Urban Interface Fire Summit. The summit’s purpose was to discuss ways to reduce the wildfire threat to Nevada’s wildfire-prone communities. This year’s summit theme addressed the concept of creating fire adapted communities, or FACs. A FAC is […]
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