Badlands Journal
Social, Economic, and Environmental Justice
Remember this the next time you hear local land-use officials justifying more destruction of your environment for "growth."
Remember Judy Holliday singing the Jules Styne song in "Bells Are Ringing"
It's time to call it a day
They've burst your pretty balloon
And taken the moon away
It's time to wind up the masquerade
Just make your mind up the piper must be paid
The threat of bankruptcy overhangs local government across the nation. In Northern California, Vallejo declared bankruptcy last year, impoverished for a generation by the closing of the Mare Island Naval Base. Stockton recently declared bankruptcy, impoverished for a generation because it is the home of Developer Grupe and Builder Spanos.
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While we are deeply moved by UC Merced's trendy research in the Sierra, we would be happier if it would get its water and sewage serv ice somewhere other then the City of Merced because, noticeably after the return of the Little Darlings for more instruction on campus, the water pressure took another dive in town.
And, to ask again: Has UC Merced ever paid for the pipes and hook up outside the city limits provided by the City Council?
Badlands Journal editorial board
8-29-12
Merced Sun-Star
Was it just one more lie UC told us? -- BLJ
8-6-05
UC Merced News
Opening Convocation and Celebration:
Welcome and Greetings by UC Regents' Chairman Gerald Parsky
September 6, 2005
http://www.ucmerced.edu/news/opening-convocation-and-celebration-welcome...
* Javanese shadow-puppet theatre
"It's just money," people say. But reading this article, one recalls that money talks.
Multi-layered escape from responsibility
Somewhere in an arid state to the east someone is figuring out the odds on a levee break in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. And the latest move by the US Army Corps of Engineers reported below may alter the morning line on the Great Delta Collapse.
Restore The Delta
Finding faults…RTDJess
http://www.restorethedelta.org/cant-find-my-way-home/
Most recent discussion of earthquake risk in the Delta have been based on the Delta Risk Management Strategy (DRMS). DRMS was prepared by consultants (URS Corporation) for the Department of Water Resources.
Experts disagree about many of the findings in DRMS, which assumes five Delta fault systems.
In the lengthy compilation below you will find much fine insight, invective, wit, humor and history on water in California, as fascinating and horrifying to us Californians as the drug trade. The whole story is like a dark novel in which we are living and no one doubts that it will all end worse than we can imagine.
Jerry wants to get shit done. But, as one homeowner activist from LA put it, what would you say to a contractor who proposed building you a new house but didn't have either a blueprint or a budget?
Victory for GMO-free movement: Plantings halted in Oregon
August 18, 2012
By Nicholas Tomasi