Jeff Pelline's Sierra Foothills Report

The S.F. Giants are now one win away from a World Series championship after beating the Texas Rangers 4-0. •Twenty-something Madison Bumgarner won tonight’s game, making him the fourth youngest pitcher to win a World Series game. •”Rosey Posey” — a shoe-in for Rookie of the Year — hit a home run. •And “I’ll Huff [...]

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“California is poised once again to compete for the crown as the nation’s leading graveyard for business superstars trying to make the jump into politics,” writes Michael Hiltzik of the L.A. Times. The commentary is here. Why do big-time CEOs — Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina, for example — make such terrible politicians? Much of [...]

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A Tea Party Patriot tries to explain how our freedoms are in jeopardy. Though a little longer than the normal clip here, this is an interesting discourse.

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In Sunday’s New York Times, Frank Rich does a good and humorous job of pointing to the cabal (such as Rupert Murdoch at Fox News and The Journal, as well as Pollster Scott Rasmussan) that has “been arduous in promoting and inflating Tea Party events and celebrities to this propagandistic end.” We’ve discussed it on [...]

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“What’s wrong with being an advocate?” asks Bruce Brugman, the longtime editor and publisher of the Bay Guardian. “Advocating for the First Amendment, sunshine laws, for public power – what’s wrong with that?” Bruce is profiled in Sunday’s San Francisco Chronicle. The profile is here. “The mainstream press looks down from the top of the [...]

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Barron’s cover story this week is titled “Bears, Beware!” It reads: “America’s money managers say stocks are cheap and the economy will keep growing. Why they’re bullish on tech, bearish on Congress.” The article is here (subscription required). The results of a Barron’s money manager poll are below. I’m more bullish than the poll that [...]

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Our local newspaper is a Tom McClintock lapdog (again), running an other voices “Continuing on the road to ruin.” It is a retread of the same canned editorial that ran in stellar publications, such as Rocklin Today, back on Sept. 21. Click on “retread” and “running” you’ll see what I mean. Congressional P.R. people send [...]

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Here’s an article being shared on the internal employees network of the county. Let’s hope the county is more successful in its labor negotiations with the employees’ union than it was the last time around. For all the crowing about our fiscal conservatism, the county and the supervisors could have held a harder line with [...]

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Watch as a 1,200 pound pumpkin is dropped on a Pontiac. Only in America.

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