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sacramento connect NPR.orgTom McClintock’s field representative wondered aloud how much Mary Nichols, the chief of CARB, spends commuting from L.A. to Sacramento “everyday.” “If so, that has to cost the taxpayer a pretty penny,” she wrote on Russ Steele’s blog. As it turns out, Mary said she flies back and forth between L.A. and Sacramento about once [...]
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The anti-Mark Meckler Facebook page that I wrote about earlier this week is getting some more national press, and a local has weighed in. “Well, well, well, the lights in the kitchen just came on. Is that the Mecklers running for cover?” wrote local resident Chuck Shea, a tea party supporter. “The tea party movement [...]
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Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed AB 1871 into law that allows car owners to share their personal vehicles in a car sharing service and make money from it. It is an idea that would be well suited to our rural area. It also could help counter the impact of cutbacks in Gold Country Stage Transit. [...]
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“Yes, you read that headline right. Charlie White, the GOP candidate for Secretary of State in Indiana, the guy who would be overseeing elections laws, is being accused of voter fraud,” America Blog is reporting. “And, it looks like there’s a very strong case to be made against him.” The story is continuing to grow. [...]
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Since relocating here from Indiana, Barry and Kim Pruett have jumped into partisan politics with gusto. Their stripe happens to be staunch GOP. Trouble is, their roles here are supposed to be more nonpartisan in interacting with the rest of us. In Barry’s case, he ran for the nonpartisan post of clerk-recorder — and lost [...]
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The other day, I mentioned we shared some “San Francisco values” with some older parents and friends of ours from Indiana in the City by the Bay. Here’s a photo they posted on Facebook. My question: Who copied whom? LOL.
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Our resident right-wing, global warming denialists attended tonight’s presentation by CARB chair Mary Nichols in Nevada City, sat quietly, then rushed home and filed negative, preconceived reports from behind their PCs. Sound like “passive/aggressive”? You decide. “So what we saw tonight was a well rehearsed showtime for backwoods peons from a confident and powerful arm [...]
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Meg Whitman said Wednesday she paid an undocumented worker to clean her residence and provide other services in her home for *nine years* but insisted that she had been unaware of the woman’s immigration status, the L.A. Times reported. Do you remember Zoe Baird, who also admitted to hiring illegal aliens in the Clinton administration? [...]
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I hope you are enjoying the Indian Summer. We are so fortunate to call the Sierra and its foothills our home. Here is a photo of Meeks Bay at Tahoe that I shot this afternoon on my cell phone. I came to Meeks for a “lunch break” while working up here. I’ve been swimming in [...]
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Here’s the makeover of Broad Street in Nevada City, with crews grinding and resurfacing the street for the first time in decades — down to the dirt. The photos are courtesy of Mikail Graham, on his Facebook page. Seeing Broad Street with dirt exposed makes me think of the “rough and tumble” days. There’s a [...]
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