The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Nov. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- What: Operation Gobble Press Event When: 2:30 pm on Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009 Where: Firehouse Community Center 810 Grand Avenue Sacramento, CA 95838 Contact: Evan Jacobs for California Ame...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Nov. 23 /PRNewswire/ --
Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | yesterday
"Friends of the Delta," another corporate astroturfing group similar to the "Latino Water Coalition," has launched an ad campaign to convince Delta residents to join in a campaign to destroy the California Delta. "What we are beginning to see is an ad campaign financed by Southern California water interests and San Joaquin Valley agribusiness to bring residents and supporters...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | yesterday
Even as Sen. Abel Maldonado was being nominated Tuesday to serve as lieutenant governor, Democratic leaders expressed doubts about confirming him. "It may be both fiscally and politically prudent to permit the people to make their own selection for this state office next year to avoid the expense of a costly special election," Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg said in a written...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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....
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...
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 [...]
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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