Jeff Pelline's Sierra Foothills Report

“The stunning announcement yesterday that Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) would not seek reelection took everyone by surprise. Her reasons for bidding the world’s most deliberative body buh-bye are not. Often one of a few true mavericks willing to buck her party to seek consensus and compromise, the senior senator tired of the polarization that has [...]

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Nevada City resident and businessman Gary Tintle is interviewed on KCRA-TV in a weather report from the historic downtown. It is here. Good going!

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Phil Carville of the South Yuba Club gyms emailed this to me: “Due to a build up of snow, we are closing both the Grass Valley and Nevada City gyms tonight at 7 PM. We have posted this info on our website, but many of our members also follow your Blog so I wanted to [...]

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“Sen. Susan Collins fears that moderates will be put off by the nasty in-fighting in her party’s presidential primary. Illinois Rep. Joe Walsh is worried that the candidates’ focus on social issues and personal attacks could hurt his reelection bid. And the two Republican chairmen in charge of winning a House and Senate majority in [...]

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Nevada Joint Union High School District is closed, along with the schools in Grass Valley and Nevada City, because of the storm. Sierra College, Nevada County campus in Grass Valley also is closed. The storm has closed schools throughout the foothills and Sierra, as reported previously. “Good morning, this message is to notify all staff, [...]

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Snow, freezing rain and wind hit the foothills and Sierra and is expected to continue up until the weekend. Today daytime snow accumulation of 3 to 7 inches is possible in the Grass Valley area, according to the National Weather Service. We woke up to a few inches of snow near downtown Nevada City. The [...]

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CNN has just projected Romney will win Michigan, defeating Rick Santorum and the rest of the field. Romney already won in Arizona tonight. The Detroit Free Press report is here.

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“Facebook’s eagerly anticipated Wall Street debut could pump nearly $2.5 billion into California coffers over the next five years, the state’s top budget analyst said Monday,” as the L.A. Times is reporting. “It was the first public prediction by a state official of what the social networking giant’s initial public offering could mean for California’s [...]

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“The Michigan presidential primary on Tuesday offers Rick Santorum — and skeptical conservatives — the best chance yet to turn nagging questions about Mitt Romney into deep doubts about his candidacy,” according to the N.Y. Times. “His defeat could send the nominating fight onto an unpredictable path and reset the Republican race. “But a victory [...]

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