Jeff Pelline's Sierra Foothills Report

I throughly enjoyed last year — despite the drumbeat of “nattering naybobs of negativism” — and know I’ll be enjoying 2012 more. I’ve been working away this weekend (on my own clock), but popping open a bottle of Sierra Starr bubbly tonight, and we’re joining friends for some “low and slow” ribs on the “Big [...]

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Editor’s note: I received this report from WordPress about Sierra Foothills Report. I’m happy to share it, being a fan of publishing transparency: •London Olympic Stadium holds 80,000 people. This blog was viewed about 520,000 times in 2011. If it were competing at London Olympic Stadium, it would take about 7 sold-out events for that [...]

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“With the Iowa caucuses just days away, the Republican crack-up threatens the future of the Grand Old Party more profoundly than at any other time since the GOP’s eclipse in 1932,” Robert Reich, who has served in three presidential administrations, writes on his blog. “That’s bad for America.” “The crack-up isn’t just Romney-the-smooth versus Gingrich-the-bomb-thrower. [...]

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“Newt Gingrich says he has killed a chapter on climate change in a post-election book of essays about the environment. But the intended author of the chapter, who supports the scientific consensus that humans contribute to climate change, says that’s news to her. “Katharine Hayhoe, an atmospheric scientist at Texas Tech, confirmed in an email [...]

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