Jeff Pelline's Sierra Foothills Report

“Today, we watched with great pride and overwhelming emotion as Chelsea and Marc wed in a beautiful ceremony at Astor Courts, surrounded by family and their close friends,” the Clintons said in a statement. “We could not have asked for a more perfect day to celebrate the beginning of their life together, and we are [...]

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The Union has a front-page article this weekend titled “St. Joseph’s Cultural Center: Grass Valley Gem to Sparkle Again.” One sentence reads: “Terry Lamphier, a licensed general contractor recently elected to the Grass Valley City Council, used a $1,500 grant in 2009 to restore the 1894 doorway to the hall. In 2007, he refurbished the [...]

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In February 2009, the eight weekly newspapers that comprise the Taconic Press group in upstate New York closed, raising concern within the small communities who lost their only local paper. It’s a familiar story nationwide. But up stepped the Hudson Valley News, run by an experienced newspaperman, with a website and print edition. “Unlike the [...]

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I was LOL (laughing out loud) when I read the celebration for “transparency” for salaries at the Rood Center this weekend following the fiasco in the City of Bell. The local media was getting spun too. But it wasn’t always that way. “In light of the corrupt and insane actions by the City of Bell [...]

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This New York Times article is making the rounds on the Facebook pages of Reinette Senum and “See Jane Do.” It’s very interesting and comes as the cities in our area are considering ordinances to make backyard farming (including raising chickens) easier: “Lawn mowing and baby-sitting are standard summer jobs for the enterprising teenager. Alexandra [...]

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Ed Yarborough pulling nomination papers for one of two Grass Valley City Council seats that are up for grabs reminded me what a “shallow bench” we have for elected positions in our county. Barry Pruett’s run for nonpartisan clerk-recorder — where he had no experience in that office but a real political bent — also [...]

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Prop. 23 — the proposal to stifle AB 32 or the “global warming act” — is getting routed, according to a poll by the Public Policy Institute of California. “Decline to state,” or independent voters, are solidly against the proposition. They are a key voting block. Our very conservative GOP Congressman Tom McClintock and Assemblyman [...]

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The White House will decide as early as this weekend who will get access to the front-row seat in the briefing room once occupied by Helen Thomas. A battle is raging between NPR, Fox and Bloomberg for the seat vacated by Thomas after her controversial remarks about Jews and Israel. “Our forbearance was bolstered by [...]

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So says Todd, once a supervisor in our county, over on Russ Steele’s blog. Todd is a founder of CABPRO. It’s a bold statement, considering that our county recently has voted for Obama, Charlie Brown, Terry Lamphier and Greg Diaz (not McCain, Tom McClintock, John Spencer or Barry Pruett). Who do you think has the [...]

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Check out this “Other Voices” that ran in The Union back in 2002: “Republicans need to wrest control of their party from CABPRO and never allow any other group to politicize the supervisorial seats that are intended to be non-partisan,” it reads. “This is a strange time for Republicans in our county.” Sound familiar? The [...]

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