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The officer and the mushroom

Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thursday, 25 October 2012

Sometimes you take your eyes off the political scene for a moment, look up at the sky, take a breath of fresh air and look down again, seeing with refreshed eyes how sordid it all is. This year there are essential political issues from the city councils to Washington – 11 years of war and the dire effects of deregulated chronic economic recession. Yet it is the genius of the political rule of the super-rich that people are forced into a moral wasteland between idiocy and cynicism.

Management of water in a severely overdrafted region of the Valley

Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wednesday, 24 October 2012

To us, this story of an adjudicated water settlement between Consolidated Irrigation District and the City of Selma was the most important of the day in the Valley news. Perhaps this is because it represents our near future here in Merced County, which still has a relatively decent water table.

Mobley-Gray by the numbers

Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on Monday, 15 October 2012

We welcome all who have the stomach for looking directly at how our local elections are bought and sold to example the list of contributors for the Republican and Democrtic party candidates for our 21st state Assembly district.
We will let you form your own opinion other than to say that it appears to us that the Democrats are not set to spend a million dollars on this campaign because their candidate is attractive, charming or brilliant.

SUPERMAJORITY

Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on Monday, 15 October 2012

The reason about $3 million may be spent on state legislative campaigns in Modesto -- Adam Gray, Kathleen Galgiani, Bill Berryhill -- is because the Democrats are two seats away from two-thirds majorities in both houses of the Legislature.

Milking the boondoggle

Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thursday, 11 October 2012

The UC Boondoggle keeps laying tax-paid eggs, including the untold millions committed to BobcatFlak, UC Merced's finest product. BobcatFlak (BCF) is a form of propaganda so toxic that even the keen minds on the McClatchy Chain's local outlet cannot seem to figure out that UC Merced is not generating the largest part of the figures being tossed out of BCF Central. It comes from the state; it comes from you. Fine, you get some of your taxes back, but a boondoggle is a boondoggle, not a milk cow or a golden goose.

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