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sacramento connect NPR.org“Angela Merkel has committed to shutting down all of the country’s nuclear reactors by 2022, a task said by one minister to be as mammoth as the project to reunite East and West Germany in 1990,” according to the Guardian newspaper. “Monday’s announcement, prompted by Japan’s nuclear disaster, will make Germany the first major industrialised [...]
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Editor’s note: More signs of permanent changes in the housing market, a trend that will further slow the rebound here — perhaps to the 2014-15 timeframe now predicted at the Rood Center, which depends on home prices for tax receipts. Same goes for second-home ownership, where people would rather just vacation. Here are the latest [...]
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Our family joined a small group in Pioneer Park on Monday to honor our Veterans. The weather was impeccable. The ceremony was marked by the Pledge of Allegiance, the Flag raising, a 21-gun salute and a wreath of poppies placed at a war memorial in the park. It was short and sweet. We visited with [...]
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Jim Tressel, who led Ohio State to its first title in 34 years, resigned Monday amid NCAA violations and mounting revelations that sullied the image of one of the nation’s top football programs. “After meeting with university officials, we agreed that it is in the best interest of Ohio State that I resign as head [...]
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Last week I wrote about plans to build micro-homes for the homeless in Grass Valley. The project this past weekend was a big success. The needed $7,500 was raised in just one week and a group of volunteers showed up to build them. It was documented on Facebook, in words, photos and video — once [...]
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In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In [...]
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“The Giants’ prized catcher and cleanup hitter must turn his attention beyond 2011 and focus on getting healthy for 2012,” the San Francisco Chronicle is reporting. “After Buster Posey’s 90-minute surgery on Sunday, trainer Dave Groeschner confirmed Posey is done for this season and spoke of an extensive rehabilitation that will extend into next year. [...]
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Yountville — Byron Fitzpatrick decorates headstones at the Veterans Home of California in preparation for Memorial Day. (credit: Napa Register, Jorgen Guliksen)
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“Things could hardly have been worse when Anne Stausboll took over the reins at the California Public Employees’ Retirement System in January 2009,” the San Francisco Chronicle is reporting. “Investments had tanked, allegations of corrupt dealings by insiders were rumbling, and there were concerns that the nation’s largest public pension fund, on which 1.6 million [...]
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“BEIJING — The mutts were destined for the dinner table — all 520 of them crammed onto a truck hurtling down a Beijing highway toward awaiting restaurants in northeastern China,” according to the Washington Post. “Then, fate intervened in the form of a passing driver, an animal lover who spotted the truck and angrily forced [...]
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