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Posts published in May 2012

Jerry Brown: The Big Oil Governor

Catherine Reheis-Boyd, the President of the Western States Petroleum Association, is back in the news in an article in today’s Sacramento Bee about the increase in steam injection oil drilling permits since Governor Jerry Brown…

Laughing

“Humor is just another defense against the universe.” — Mel Brooks Once upon a time, so many years ago it might have been another lifetime, I got two kittens, a boy and girl, and after…

Laboratory Vineyards

For ten years, Abe Schoener has been recording the unfolding history of California’s climate and geology — but he is not a government scientist drawing sedimentary core samples from the Earth or a hydrologist taking…

Wine Country’s Dr. Sociopath

To paraphrase Upton Sinclair's 1923 book The Goose Step: A Study of American Education, some of the greatest sociopaths in this country’s history have affixed their names to university buildings in an effort to burnish…

The Mere Mention Of Weed…

Supervisor Hamburg was all ears, energized at the end of a long meeting day on Tuesday, April 24th. This consent calendar item roused Hamburg: "The Board has consistently taken policy positions on issues addressing illegal…

Operation Ab Intercept

The Fish & Game checkpoint at the Boonville Fairgrounds Sunday morning caused quite a flurry of desperate activity between Boonville and Philo, what with last minute ditchings of illegally taken abalone and vehicles copping sudden…

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