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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | yesterday
A new study says Californians could save billions each year and cut greenhouse gas emissions by developing neighborhoods within easy access of public transportation. The study – "Windfall for All: How Connected, Convenient Neighborhoods Can Protect Our Climate and Safeguard California's Economy" – was conducted by Oakland-based TransForm, formerly the Transportation and Land Use...
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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Phil Isenberg I love my hometown. But we sure can sound whiny and sanctimonious when we talk about water and the Delta. In the last two months all the feuding interests – water districts, environmentalists, Delta residents, local government officials, agriculture and urban water users around California – figured out the Legislature was poised to do something significant about water and the...
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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg is the acting governor. Ever since Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger departed on his latest foreign trip, Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg of Sacramento has served as acting governor of California. Will he seize the moment? Normally, with the Big Cheese out of the state, the job of leading one of the world's largest economies falls to the state's lieutenant...
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Aguanomics (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Read this interview (via DW) with State Senator Wolk (D-Davis). Here are some nice (?) quotations: She told The Record's editorial board Monday that, realistically, the efforts [water bills] were a waste. "It was awful, incredibly awful," Wolk said. "I've never seen anything like this." She said the legislation was written by Westlands Water District, which serves western Fresno...
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Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Arnold Schwarzenegger, the "Green Governor," last week signed a five bill package that will lead to the construction of the peripheral canal, more dams and the destruction of the California Delta unless this insane plan is stopped. Governor's Office Photo: Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger held a press conference at the Set Back Levee on the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta in Isleton, California...
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The COFFEE SHOP (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
What are the 10 Steps from Freedom to Socialism? "The 10 Steps For Taking Over a City"? (The movement was a predecessor to ACORN). At the bottom of the page, it mentions the plan for Sacramento. And they implemented much of it. Darrell Steinberg was a Sacramento City Councilman and now, as you may know, the California Senate President Pro Tem... Anybody remember? There is work being done...
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Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
The Center for Biological Diversity Friday filed two lawsuits against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the Obama administration for failing to protect two critically imperiled San Francisco Bay-Delta fish species, the longfin smelt and delta smelt. Responding to a 2007 petition under the Endangered Species Act, the Service in April 2009 improperly denied federal listing for the longfin smelt....
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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Sacramento's religious and community leaders came together today to ask Sacramentans not to blame an entire group of people for the violent actions of one. Interfaith leaders and top law enforcement officials joined forces at SALAM (Sacramento Area League of Associated Muslims) Center, a north Sacramento mosque, to condemn the actions of Major Nidal Hasan, charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder....
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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will travel to Iraq early next week to visit U.S. troops for the first time as governor. Schwarzenegger previously visited troops on United Service Organizations-sponsored tours in 2002 to Bosnia to preview his movie, "Collateral Damage," as well as in 2003 to Iraq to show "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines." "He's been wanting to visit the troops...
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The Rancho Cordova Post (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (D- Sacramento) stopped by to visit Rancho Cordova residents on Nov. 9 at City Hall, and he spoke about several issues he feels are currently affecting the Sacramento area. Steinberg talked about the recession and the budget cuts that have slashed programs state-wide, saying Prop 13, an initiative that limits the [...]
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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Tuesday signs a water conservation law at the Santa Clara Valley Water District headquarters in San Jose with local politicians as a backdrop. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Tuesday signs a water conservation law at the Santa Clara Valley Water District headquarters in San Jose with local politicians as a backdrop. The measure, authored by Sen. Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento,...
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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
When the Legislature was drafting its massive water plan, it included a number of specific appropriations as political lubricants. It did not, however, include funds for analysis of the Capitol's own supply of drinking water, thereby denying us an opportunity to discover whether it contains a mysterious germ that compels legislative leaders to do really dumb things. Recent polls indicate that California...
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Choosing Democracy (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
A major water bill has been passed by the California Legislature, led by local leader Darrell Steinberg. It includes a 10.1 Billion water bond. We will vote on this bond proposal in 2010. Bonds are sold, and then they must be repaid. That is, in a future year, we will be paying billion for the bonds, plus interest. This will come out of the budget before we pay for schools, health care, etc. I see...
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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
In a state as large and fractured as California, it is always cause for celebration when lawmakers can reach some form of agreement on an issue as divisive as water. Water isn't just a precious resource here. It is a theology. Over the decades, various belief systems have formed around subjects such as dams, water exports, conservation and subsidies. Adherents of these theologies have fought so many...
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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
On Wednesday, The Bee's Jim Sanders and Steve Wiegand broke news that the state's proposed water bond package included $10 million for a nonprofit tolerance center in Sacramento – a favored project of Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg. The story was posted online just after midnight and circulated quickly, through various channels, at the all-night legislative session. Within hours,...
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