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Month: April 2016

  • Nevada County’s economic development – augmented or virtual?

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 13 April 2016. 19apr16 update - An edited version of this commentary appeared here in the 19apr16 edition of The Union.] Last week the Economic Resource Council held its annual soiree on Nevada County’s economic development.  Executive Director Jon Gregory and his team put…

  • The Liberal Mind – Hilary Hodge can’t connect the dots (updated 21apr16)

    George Rebane Liberals, in the footsteps of Bernie in this election year, have worked themselves into a white heat denigrating business, employers, profit, entrepreneurship, …, in short all the trappings of free market capitalism.  Our local outlets for such sentiments include the neighborhood progressives whose commentaries decorate The Union’s op-ed pages.  Among them is the…

  • A burning election year question for Americans (updated)

    George Rebane In this year of 2016AD, is not the disjunction of our communal knowledge remarkable when it informs a goodly portion of us that capitalism and free enterprise are evil and the prime causes of misery and suffering wherever they are practiced; when in reality these are and continue to be the ONLY social…

  • Scattershots – 8apr16 (updated 9apr16)

    George Rebane Socialists and communists have been trying to destroy America for generations.  Learning from past mistakes, they have picked up the pace in recent years under a clearly socialist president.  From this pithy analysis of things one year into FDR’s administration, our current clutch of collectivists are doing much better.  Checking the list below,…

  • Ruminations on 2016 Economic Development (updated 8apr16)

    George Rebane You can never go wrong in today's media making fun of a white, anglo-saxon businessman. The economy and economic development is on everyone’s lips these days. The Left continues to conjure the vision of an ephemeral Obama recovery from the ongoing ‘Great Recession’.  The Right points to the fabricated and pretzellated statistics the…

  • Sandbox – 5apr16

    [The NCAA championship, Trump’s latest follies, Hillary’s ongoing lies and impending (or not!) testimony, Bernie’s heartfelt exhortations to a socialist future, Muslim ragheads killing and colonizing, global cooling, Obama’s political revelations, another shot at economic development, …; so much to sort out and inform each other about the error of their ways.  Where to start? …

  • Nevada County’s Latest Economic Development Push (updated 4apr16)

    Ready, Fire, Aim! George Rebane Local folks who read, listen, or go online know by now that our Economic Resource Council (the politically acceptable name sans that dreaded ‘development’ in its moniker) is putting on its now annual economic development extravaganza this Thursday, 7 April 2016.  Yesterday ERC publicist Janet Augstein broadcast its latest online…

  • MJ – the numbers game (updated 5apr16)

    George Rebane The importance of every social issue derives only from the numbers which underpin it. Without understanding the numbers, our response is limited to unfounded and misplaced emotions. A major RR tenet has been the importance of numbers in the discussion/development of public policy, and the need for a numerate population to maintain our republic.  I’ve posted…

  • California’s Economic Dive Picks Up Speed (updated)

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast a bit belatedly on 1 April 2016 due to mutual scheduling problems.] California is ready to hasten its spiral into economic destitution with its new legislation to make $15/hr the new statewide minimum wage over the next few years.  As such our state…

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