Steven Talbot, featured at last weekend’s Second Annual Boonville Film Festival, is best known for his award-winning work as producer of PBS’s Frontline series. This year, Talbot is also teaching at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. Saturday night at the High Pockety Ox, Boonville’s premier brewpub, he showed his documentary from 1991 “Who Bombed [...]
by Todd Walton
Our PG&E bill came today, and not only has the cost of electricity jumped (up) since the recent outages of early January, but there was a notification of PG&E filing “for approval to recover in rates the cost of the smartmeter program upgrade.” Stay with me here. I, too, usually throw these little notices in [...]
Assembly Bill 2121 (“Protecting North Coast Fisheries”) was signed into law in 2004. It called for the State Water Resources Control Board to issue a new draft North Coast Instream Flow Policy. (We discussed the poison pill in the new policy — watershed groups made up of moneyed diverters only — at length in these [...]
Late last month California’s Water Resources Control Board issued the final draft of their “Policy for Maintaining Instream Flows in Northern California Coastal Streams.” The new policy was prepared in accordance with California Water Code Section 1259.4 which states that “On or before January 1, 2008, the board shall adopt principles and guidelines for maintaining [...]
