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Month: August 2010

  • Meg, are we in the bag?

    George Rebane Last Wednesday (18aug10) I stood next to my pal Russ Steele when he lit into Meg’s second string field representatives for her refusal to support Proposition 23.  I thought that Russ was appropriately steamed by the ‘pre-natal RINO’ behavior Whitman was communicating across California.  I had taken her to task on this in…

  • Bassackwards (updated)

    George Rebane Former Union editor and Nevada County’s journalist extraordinaire (also self-appointed manager of our morals and keeper of The High Dudgeon) Jeff Pelline has again gotten a bit confused about the why, wherefore, and responsibility of disclosures.  In my recent pieces promoting the passage of Proposition 23 (for example here and here), I do…

  • Is Prop23 Relevant to Nevada County?

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my bi-weekly KVMR-FM 85.9 commentary aired earlier this evening (20 August 2010).  NC Media Watch adds to the relevancy argument here.] By now everyone has heard of AB32, California’s new law to implement statewide energy cap and trade regulations.  Governor Schwarzenegger signed it and turned it over to…

  • Don’t worry your pretty little head

    George Rebane Imagine trying to land a 747 when all you can see is out the back where you have been.  This is pretty much the drill in attempting to manage a centrally controlled economy using financial performance data that is more than a day late and a dollar short.  Our socialist inclined friends always…

  • Stagnating Workforce

    George Rebane “New data show that fewer than 25% of 2010 graduates who took the ACT college-entrance exam possessed the academic skills necessary to pass entry-level courses, despite modest gains in college-readiness among U.S high-school students in the last few years.”  So opens a front page report in today’s (18aug10) WSJ.  ACT scores for high…

  • Selecting the Right Business Climate

    George Rebane There are several approaches that a region or community can adopt to build a better business climate.   Every approach is founded on a social ideology that is promoted by its backers as a belief system that has either worked in the past, or one that will work in the future if only we give…

  • A Sackhead Saga

    George Rebane The comment threads of most online blogs can get pretty nasty and off the point – one part displays the person’s upbringing, and the other his ability to noodle about the subject, even if he’s a she.  Such remarks are fostered by the anonymity of online handles (or nom de screed) which commenters…

  • Prop 23 = AB32 Relief (updated 19aug2010)

    George Rebane [This is the submitted form of my August Union column which appeared in the newspaper’s 14aug2010 print and online editions.] Almost all surveys, polls, and analyses say that California is at or near the bottom of America’s economic ladder.  Our perennially inept legislature in Sacramento has worldwide notoriety – we are the international…

  • Unbelievable? – maybe not (updated 17aug2010)

    George Rebane Progressives and their ambiguous cousins, the liberals, cannot be this ignorant.  Tonight on Fox News Neil Cavuto interviewed James Roosevelt Jr, FDR’s grandson and former associate commissioner of Social Security.  Junior, sober as a judge, claimed in front of a national audience that SS was completely solvent due to the Treasury bonds worth…

  • Those Convenient Counterfactuals (updated)

    George Rebane Ahh, another glorious Friday, and an opportunity to continue the never-ending debate about President Obama’s series of stimulus packages that have done so much good in this recession, the good that would have gone by the board had not Congress bent to the man’s progressive instincts and Keynesian prescriptions.   Here again we…

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