Jeff Pelline's Sierra Foothills Report

Here’s a state-wide scoop to ring in the New Year: John Laird, the former state Assemblyman from Santa Cruz and author of landmark conservation legislation, will be named the new state Natural Resources Secretary in Jerry Brown’s administration, according to my sources. The Natural Resources Agency is charged with protecting the state’s natural, historical and [...]

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We’re gearing up for one of the biggest football weekends of the year: College Bowl games on Saturday and NFL playoff-clinching games on Sunday. Here’s an inside look at how Wilson makes NFL footballs in Ada, Ohio, and has for the past 40 years. With a veteran staff, this is the only factory in the [...]

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As a long-time sailor, I was glad to hear that San Francisco was selected to host America’s Cup in 2013, beating out Newport, R.I., and Italy. “We sought a venue that fulfills our promise – to showcase the best sailors in the world competing on the fastest boats,” Richard Worth, a race official, told the [...]

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This might be a tough pill for our local hard right blogger George Rebane to swallow: “Estonia is just hours away from becoming the 17th member of the eurozone – the first ex-Soviet state to adopt the EU’s single currency,” according to BBC. “The changeover from the kroon to the euro starts at midnight (2200 [...]

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Here are some scoops and “scoops of perception” — AKA prescient commentary — from this blog in 2010. This includes reader commentary. They’re listed in no particular order. The local media followed up on these reports, or in some cases — such as Tom McClintock’s comment about the “left wing” clerk recorder or his “support” [...]

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“From the Gulf Oil Spill to the West Virginia Mining Disaster, 2010 saw its fair share of newsworthy events putting environmental issues in the spotlight. Although we witnessed many tragedies, there were also many signs of hope, from historic steps taken by the EPA to tackle big polluters to landmark initiatives by states doing their [...]

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I grew up in Pasadena, and we used to watch the Rose Parade floats being built — an intricate process. So it was heartening to hear Todd Johnson of Foothill Flowers in Grass Valley has been volunteering to help build floats there for years, as I’ve written before. “I’m on the tree crew — Beverly [...]

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This blog continues to break traffic records every month — and December is no exception. (In fact, it already has). That’s up from zero less than two years ago. More important, there are more than 16,200 signed comments. Together, we’ve built a community of intelligent discourse, probing a wide range of issues, including tackling some [...]

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