Jeff Pelline's Sierra Foothills Report

“Jane Russell, the dark-haired siren whose sensational debut in the 1943 film “The Outlaw” inspired producer Howard Hughes to challenge the power and strict morality of Hollywood’s production code, died Monday at her home in Santa Maria, Calif. She was 89. “Russell, who would later turn her sexy image to comic effect in films with [...]

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“The California State Board of Equalization (BOE) today announced that the list of California’s largest unpaid sales and use tax delinquencies has been updated at www.boe.ca.gov,” according to a press release. “The BOE replaced 11 names on its list of debtors. Those added to the list have delinquencies totaling $11.4 million in sales tax owed.” [...]

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I’m out of town, but a citizen journalist has passed on this business scoop: Starbucks is coming to the vacant Arby’s drive-through in the Pine Creek Shopping Center in Grass Valley. A sign is on the side of the building confirming the deal. Though rumored, this marks the first official confirmation. Starbucks will relocate from [...]

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“Mary Carolyn Dobbs, a California State University, Fresno alumna who became a teacher and internationally renowned pioneer in special education, passed away Jan. 12 in Grass Valley. She was 99,” according to Fresno State News. “Ms. Dobbs was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from the California State University at Fresno State’s 2004 Commencement. [...]

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The power outages in our area lasted for days, compared with Lake Tahoe, which had few outages. People were cold, hungry, lost the items in their refrigerator. Some accrued motel expenses. If you want to make a claim, PG&E will send you a form and will consider reimbursing you from $25 to $100. Nowadays, however, [...]

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“As one essayist wrote not long ago, it’s become an article of faith in Conservative America that Hollywood is a ‘collection of hopeless la-la-land liberals — or worse, an elitist gaggle of heartland-bashing snobs,’” the L.A. Times writes. “Conservatives have routinely ridiculed Oscar movies for attacking the military (‘Avatar’), promoting homosexuality (‘Milk’ and ‘Brokeback Mountain’) [...]

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Nobody who works on The Union’s editorial staff has a three-digit address in Nevada City, as far as I know. But that isn’t stopping the newspaper paper from carrying water for outsourcing the city’s police services – on the Op-Ed pages, the news pages and reader polls. There have been countless columns, including one from [...]

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Our local Tea Party/hard-right blogging contingent wants to join a national tea party effort to monitor City Council members and the county Board of Supervisors. It harkens back to the days of widespread political tension in our community during the days of NH2020 involving extremists. “I am volunteering to be a local trainer for all [...]

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“Former pizza executive Herman Cain won on Sunday a 2012 presidential straw poll of attendees of a Tea Party conference in Arizona,” according to TheHill.com “Cain won 22 percent of the vote in a straw poll of in-person attendees at the American Policy Summit, the first-ever conference organized by Tea Party Patriots, one of the [...]

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