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Month: April 2008

  • Road Ruminations – 27apr2008

    George Rebane Las Cruces is a city of about 70,000 in southern New Mexico.  It is a modest bedroom community for the various government facilities (White Sands Missile Range, Holloman AFB, …) hereabouts and is also within commuting distance of El Paso, Texas.  For us it is a rest stop on the way to visit…

  • Road Ruminations – 25apr08

    George Rebane For the Steeles and Rebanes this was the last day together on our RV trip without an RV.  We decided to do a little research on community development from an historical perspective and took a trip to the Bandelier National Monument.  There we were promised the opportunity to discover and examine the lifestyles…

  • Road Ruminations – 24apr08

    George Rebane Our visit to Santa Fe was made this morning when we visited the Santa Fe Institute.  SFI is a non-profit institute of learning in the systems sciences with an international reputation.  Russ and I, being systems techies, just wanted to go to the mother temple and genuflect a little.  When with our brides…

  • Road Ruminations – 22apr08

    George Rebane Grounded in Grants, NM.  Today was supposed to be our excursion to the Ice Caves about 25 miles south of here.   We pulled into the local Great Western motel yesterday afternoon after driving about 250 miles on I-40 from Flagstaff across some of the bleakest country in these United States.  It makes you…

  • Road Ruminations – 20apr08

    George Rebane We have seen the sun set in Flagstaff for the second day and last night heard our share of the 100 to 130 trains per day that pass through this town.  The last time in Flagstaff for me was in 1957 when as a teenager I drove my own used Beatle following my…

  • Road Ruminations – 19apr08

    George Rebane We just pulled into Flagstaff, Arizona.   This morning we left from Laughlin, Nevada for the short trip here.  Our friends Russ and Ellen Steele were first on the road with their Airstream and GMC2500 prime mover.  For Jo Ann and me this is our RV trip without an RV.  We were supposed tag…

  • Cancelled Flights and Codaphobia

    George Rebane This week’s cancellation of over three thousand flights for safety inspections is a political flap where the FAA is over-reacting to Congress accusing it of being too cozy with the airlines.  What makes it all possible is the established public mentality of codaphobia, now nationwide and growing in direct proportion to the country’s…

  • NC Blogger Updates – 9apr08

    George Rebane CABPRO’s Exec Dir Martin Light has posted at CABPRO Report a very thorough update on this Tuesday’s Board of Supes meeting on the steadily advancing Fire Safe plan for the county.  If you have an acre or two with trees, you want to keep up with this package of new regulations. SESF’s Exec…

  • No Friends of Our’n – Anti-Growth Group Opposed in Council Chambers (Updated)

    George Rebane Just returned from a very significant meeting of the Grass Valley City Council.  The council chambers were packed – SRO.  Mayor Johnson opened the session with some well deserved citations and proclamations recognizing local organizations doing good.  Then he opened up the meeting to public comment.  Howard Levine, Exec Director of the GV…

  • Ruminations – 7apr2008

    George Rebane Collateral Carbon Credit Damage.  This morning I awoke to a NPR report of gushing young lawyers in WashDC all atwitter about getting into the carbon credit business and making a ton of money; oh yes, they’re in it to also save the environment.  This is one of many unknown collateral catastrophes that occur…

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