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- ***OOPS! Operation Clean Air has Valley leaders gasping for answers Florez asked whether critic Kevin Hall of the Sierra Club would attend the next Operation Clean Air meeting. Hall answered: "Nobody knows where they meet." |
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- Afghani President is Powerless as Warlords Battle "The gunfight lasted 20 hours, killed 13 people, including an 8-year-old boy, trapped international aid workers and left President Hamid Karzai's administration struggling to extend the rule of law to this provincial capital …. "I'm in a bad situation," …. "The warlords have men with guns and I don't. They might kill me." — So where is our Gunslinger in Chief, Bush? |
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- Get Clinton: the plot laid bare "Without hesitation, he told me of conversations he had had with Drudge and others in which he had learned how Drudge had been prompted by a small group of rightwingers to post the libel about me on his website." — Sidney Blumenthal's book puts a whole different light on the Clinton Scandals. My favorite book on the topic is "Fools for Scandal" by Gene Lyons, and "The Hunting of the President" by Joe Conason (now a columnist on Salon) and Gene Lyons. |
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- Prize fighter thumps Bush: Guardian 'It is not just that they do not pay much attention to it but they are positively engaged in increasing inequality,' says Stiglitz. … This Nobel Prize winner knows when to pick a fight. |
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- Ranking nothing to brag about "Once the dreamland of Okies fleeing the Dust Bowl, the San Joaquin Valley is now something of an economic nightmare." — Yup. |
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- Planners OK new tract of homes "Bakersfield planning commissioners approved a tract of 361 homes in northeast Bakersfield Thursday night. — Of course they did. “"Some of the cumulative impacts of these projects are going to degrade our already abysmal air quality," he said. Roads would be clogged as well. — Of course they will. |
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- City hopes to keep plant idle The council voted Wednesday night to support a resolution introduced by Councilman David Couch opposing efforts by utility Pacific Gas & Electric to sell the plant to Colorado-based North American Power Group with the goal of restarting it.” — Ohmigosh, they did the right thing! Whoa! |
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- Boy puts face on Valley's air woes "Six-year-old Larry Hinojoza left for the hospital shortly after testifying Friday at a state Senate hearing in Fresno on the San Joaquin Valley's air pollution. His asthma -- which his mother says has left the family $9,000 in debt -- was flaring again. … she and her 16-year-old daughter recently were diagnosed with asthma. Asked whether she had ever considered moving from Fresno, she replied: "I'd leave this place today if I had the money. |
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- EPA may intervene in Valley air plans “But local air activists already have said they believe the district's new draft is flawed. That's why they are elated about Wednesday's agreement to bring in the EPA next year.” 15 |
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- Michael Lane: New tax plan reduces sprawl AB 1221 calls for them to receive 50 cents, with a compensating increase in property tax revenue. … that larger stake in property tax will allow cities to balance their planning and zoning priorities and better meet local housing needs. |
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- Plan saves funds for land act "Environmentalists and farmers, often at odds on how to best use California's natural resources, found common cause for celebration Thursday. Gov. Davis, in his revised budget proposal issued the day before, restored funding for the Williamson Act, … |
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- Kern's water supply boosted State Water Project managers upped their estimates Fridayof deliveries in the California Aqueduct this summer to 90 percent of normal. |
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- Consequences of LA-ization: Meters, no front lawns Many valley residents have been blissfully unaware that people in most of the rest of the state take water meters for granted. In fact, of the 700,000 California homes that don't have meters, most are here in the Great Valley. 15 |
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- State biologists leap into frog contest "The concern is that when you bring together animals from different areas and they commingle, they can spread disease," said Ed Pert, head of the fisheries program at the state Department of Fish and Game. "It's the perfect model for disease transmission." |
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- Hiring Freeze Aggravates Waits at DMV Under the freeze, which began about 18 months ago, the DMV has lost enough employees to staff eight offices, Gourley said, although the massive agency is frequently down as many as 100 positions. |
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- Budget red flags discovered He wants to "suspend" 34 of the mandates, which local officials interpret as a warning that they may never get that money. |
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- Scores of Teachers Statewide Receive Layoff Notices "Several thousand teachers across California received layoff notices Thursday from financially strapped school districts seeking to cut red ink. |
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- Herculean task He's walking a very fine line, and it's a line filled with quicksand on both sides,'' says Jaime Regalado, executive director of the Pat Brown Institute of Public Affairs, noting that Davis has little leverage to either deliver political plums to his friends or punish his enemies. |
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- Arax case heads to trial after 31 years "It's really a bizarre kind of turn of events, to think that you would go out and try to clear your father's name and then six years, seven years later that book may be used by a defense attorney to exonerate the man who shot my father." |
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- Iraqi oil industry boss may be guilty of conflict of interest "The secret process of awarding multi-billion-dollar contracts to reconstruction companies, many with links to the administration, has proven contentious in the US and Europe." Mr Carroll said he could "absolutely" see that his business interests with Fluor could cause controversy. |
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- The death penalty for theft "United States military forces in Iraq will have the authority to shoot looters on sight under a tough new security setup that will include hiring more police officers and banning ranking members of the Baath Party from public service, American officials said today." |
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- A Robert Byrd in Hand in Worth Two Bushes but Byrd has spoken plainly from the beginning, saying at one point, "I truly must question the judgment of any president who can say that a massive unprovoked military attack on a nation which is over 50 percent children is 'in the highest moral traditions of our country.' " |
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- Last post by tim_e on 15:58 20/May/03 - Really Bill. Just die. |
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- Last post by Little Nicola on 15:49 20/May/03 - Let's all get nekkid and rub sun tan oil into our lithe and attractive bodies. |
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- Last post by Stan on 15:18 20/May/03 - Mo names confuse me. |
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- Last post by Bucephalus Prime on 14:12 20/May/03 - I take what Andy does and extend it. |
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Deer Dance (May 20 2003 14:59 GMT) - Things here are slowly coming together. I've got Moveable Type installed (wow, is the MySQL version so much faster then the DB file version), the new template together, and things are moving along. Pieces are still missing, but they'll come.... |
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- Sun has just published an article about analysing and tuning Java apps from a GC perspective. This article discusses the GC Portal, which ploughs through the Hotspots verbose:gc logs. The GC Portal will produce graphical reports, and includes an " |
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- Lists Of Bests Bill Whittle's Magic Einstein! Beer for the Homeless Naughty/Yucky via Presurfer Looking good, Kevin!... |
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- WASHINGTON - Watch your step! The Pentagon is developing a radar-based device that can identify people by the way they... |
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cafekuh (May 20 2003 14:58 GMT) - 20.05.2003, 15:58h CET |
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- REVIEW & OUTLOOK On French Jokes Is the French government taking advice from Sidney Blumenthal? We ask that... |
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