Badlands Journal
Social, Economic, and Environmental Justice
1-14-11
counterpunch.com
A Concise History of the Rise and Fall of the Enviro Establishment (Part Three)
How Green Became the Color of Money
By JEFFREY ST. CLAIR
http://www.counterpunch.com/stclair01142011.html
1-9-11
Modesto Bee
Members of Congress told to increase security, Rep. Cardoza says...Michael Doyle
http://www.modbee.com/2011/01/08/v-print/1503144/members-of-congress-told-to-increase.html
WASHINGTON -- The shooting of Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords on Saturday struck homewith California public officials of all stripes, reminding them anew of their ownvulnerabilities.
We are finding Jeffrey St. Clair's reflections on the history of the US environmental movement interesting and instructive. St. Clair combines exhaustive knowledge of his subject with a fine, lucid writing style.
"It's one of those perfect storm situations," said UC Merced economics professor Shawn Kantor. "So it will take a very long time for this area to recover." ..."This particular area has chronically had high unemployment relative to the state and the country, which all ties to low educational attainment and poverty," Kantor said. "The circularity of the socioeconomic conditions make it difficult for this area to succeed economically. And then it got hit with the housing and government bubbles bursting." ...
12-31-10
Indybay.org
Supreme Court Terminated Governor's Last Ditch Petition to Sell State Properties
by Dan Bacher
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/12/31/18667918.php
For Immediate Release: January 5, 2011
Contact: Dr. Mark Rockwell, California Representative, Endangered Species Coalition,
V.P. Conservation, Federation of Fly Fishers, 530 559-5759
Leda Huta, Executive Director, Endangered Species Coalition: 202-320-6467
San Francisco Bay Delta Named as One of America’s Top Ten Conservation Priority
New report identifies top 10 ecosystems to save for
Dear Arnold, or "chaparito," as the girls at the In-N-Out here in town dubbed you when you visited us once during your first campaign, good-bye "Shorty," we loved you well. You were a magnificent obsession, nearly as good as the Great Ronald Himself. You took our minds off our problems. You distracted us from the bad news of our collapse. You were the ultimate Man Without Qualities, the nostalgic memory of the Austro-Hungarian Empire's special gift to poor us.
December 31, 2010 - January 2, 2011
Counterpunch.com
New Year's Edition
http://www.badlandsjournal.com/node/add/blog
A Concise History of the Rise and Fall of the Enviro Establishment
How Green Became the Color of Money
By JEFFREY ST. CLAIR
The disgust of some of us who were fortunate enough to experience a college education back when a great deal of it was about discovering one's intellectual limitations, is undimmed by the ceaseless parade of news stories about the equally undimmed greed of University of California administrators. Many listed in the group who wrote the UC Board of Regents demanding higher pensions have spent their lives mismanaging UC funds for the rest of the UC employees.
We in Merced City are far from the steely-eyed, realty-backed political leadership of our boom-time mayor, Ellie Wooten, a woman with a keen wit and a keen eye for her next buck. Now, we got Mayor Billy, Babbitt Incarnate, an individual who has never ventured beyond the never-never-land of Republican ideology of denunciation of "tax-and-spend liberals" except when Babbittry controls the public purse.