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sacramento connect NPR.orgPeople are not sure whether the story of a local who allegedly found a nine-pound gold nugget here — reported on the front page of The Union — belongs in National Geographic or the National Enquirer. It is based on a “submitted photo,” and The Union has agreed not to photograph the man’s face or [...]
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Congressman Tom McClintock’s rigid ideology jeopardizes our ability to land grant funding, a necessity in a rural area such as ours, as I’ve written before. Many others are catching on: “McClintock’s refusal to consider budget earmarks hurts his district, critics say,” the Bee wrote recently. Here’s one of most egregious examples yet, I’ve learned: McClintock’s [...]
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Right-wing pundit Glenn Beck’s audience is down nearly 30 percent since the start of the year, from about 2.9 million viewers in January to 2.1 million in April, according to mediaite.com. The website reports: “This statistic has, not surprisingly, generated some gleeful headlines from the Media Matters folks (among others) who posted a long piece [...]
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Votes for the board of the BriarPatch Co-op begin this weekend amid a turnaround at the organic grocery store in Grass Valley. “Despite the turbulence and volatility of the larger economic environment, BriarPatch experienced a return to growth in sales and profit and saw an increase in owner-members,” said General Manager Chris Maher. Despite some [...]
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In my business I grew up with competition: At my first journalism job with the daily paper in Fort Lauderdale, we were required by the business editor — Mr. D. Kaine Stankovich — to read the competition. In fact, we drew straws to go down to the corner drugstore and grab the Miami Herald’s “bulldog” [...]
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On his blog, Russ Steele — the “de facto” spokesman for the “far right” — is trying to discredit Pat Wynne’s description of local politics, because she is (OMG!) a Democrat. “The Nevada County Tea Party Patriots is simply the Far Right Wing of the Republican Party in Nevada County, which in past years was [...]
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The race for a county-clerk recorder’s seat — of all positions — is becoming as ugly and contentious as some supervisor seats in the past. The following analysis, tracing our county’s political history back to the “gang of four” liberal supervisors, is interesting to think about (see italics below). I’d only add that this time [...]
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The Union’s comment section is raging with comments (all anonymous, no less) about the mudslinging clerk-recorder race, reported here. One commenter refers to a recent letter to the editor from Tony Gilchrease, whom many people consider a “far right” local GOP’er, identifying Barry Pruett and Sue Horne (running for nonpartisan clerk-recorder and assessor seats, respectively) [...]
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The environmental consulting firm analyzing the Idaho-Maryland Mine project here — ESA — is the same outfit that this week was on the losing end of a court judgment in a controversy for an upgrade of Chevron’s major refinery in the Bay Area. A California appeals court rejected Chevron’s effort to overturn an earlier ruling [...]
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Media manipulation is nothing new during political campaigns, and neither is negative campaigning. In this case, you have to wonder if The Union is being used in the effort for Barry Pruett to unseat Greg Diaz in — of all offices — the clerk-recorder race. It’s a good venue from a campaign manager’s standpoint, having [...]
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