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Month: June 2009

  • Summer Science/Math Festival Starts in July

    George Rebane Wayne Watson, Nevada County’s ‘Mr Science Guy’, will sponsor and host “a Summer Science (and mathematics) Video Festival beginning July 8th. This is an opportunity to meet and perhaps share your interests in science, as well as enjoy some very interesting science from the past into the future. The material should be suitable…

  • Ruminations – 23jun2009

    George Rebane Virginia Brunini is heading up a petition drive to save state funding for our Empire Mine State Park.  She states that the state park accounts for about $10 million of imported cash into our local economy.  This initiative is backed by a number of local organizations including the ERC.  If you wish to…

  • Lance Comes to Town

    George Rebane Lance Armstrong came out of retirement this afternoon to win the 49th Nevada City Classic while being cheered by a town packed with about 20,000 fans.  It was a wonderful event in a wonderful setting.  But then Nevada City is my home town, and I am unabashedly biased. Jo Ann and I went…

  • Sierra College – Quo Vadis?

    George Rebane [This article, sans photo, was submitted to The Union as my 20jun09 Other Voices column.  It was printed as shown here.] Admittedly our hilltop Sierra College campus brings a number of benefits to Nevada County.  Among these are – – Cash importer and local employer of teachers and staff;– Provider of remedial education for our post-high school…

  • Nevada County ARRA Funding Update

    George Rebane The graph updates Nevada County’s progress in getting funds through the American Redistribution and Re-election Act (aka American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009).  More details here.   

  • Ruminations – 17jun2009

    George Rebane Because many RR readers see various far out notions and ideas reported first in these pages, I am sometimes viewed as a wingnut and assigned to sit in a remote corner with the other fringe elements until the more established media catch up (some never do).  This is not a complaint, but a…

  • The Devolved States of America

    George Rebane Various ways to devolve the United States are on the minds of more and more people as Obama’s grab and spend juggernaut gathers steam.  RR readers are familiar with this notion under the label of the ‘Great Divide’ which was most recently described in ‘Follow the Federal Money to the Great Divide’ on 21feb09.  Now…

  • Inflation – It’s a’comin’!

    George Rebane Inflation, perhaps hyper-inflation of the Weimar variety, is in our future.  It seems that daily another economist, tallying up the fed’s unfunded liabilities, adds to it another handful of trillions (that is not a typo).  To keep things in perspective, our country’s current GDP is about $14 trillion, and the fed vacuums up…

  • Ruminations – 10jun2009

    George Rebane Supervisor John Spencer emailed me a heads up on the progress of Nevada County’s massive influx of ARRA funds.  Obama’s American Redistribution and Re-election Act of 2009 (or something like that) was supposed to get money into the shovel-ready hinterlands double quick.  The county records our progress on the homepage of its website…

  • Look what’s in the newspaper now

    George Rebane The WSJ has now joined a small group of news outlets that is testing the use of influence factors diagrams (IFDs) to explicate matters of public policy, economics, and the workings of social systems in general.  I’m not sure this is a breakthrough yet, but the direction is encouraging. In the 8jun09 WSJ…

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