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  • Liberal Mind – Smoothing out cultural ripples

    George Rebane Used to be that America was this and not that.  We had a predominant culture that was a unique amalgam of the cultures our European immigrants brought with them.  Each succeeding wave of newcomers somehow adapted and worked their culture into what was then resident.  To be sure, cultural discrimination was already popularly…

  • The Big Government Go Along (updated 7mar15)

    George Rebane I think Union publisher Jim Hemig gets it.  This morning’s (6mar15) Union has another piece by Hemig in which he supports the 12may15 presentation to our Board of Supervisors on the movement to create the new State of Jefferson.  After some pretty deep heel marks on the floor, the persistent efforts of Mr…

  • Ruminations – 9feb15 (updated 16feb15)

    George Rebane Data homogenization is not an objective scientific process. Recreational marijuana will be legalized across the country over the next several years.  RR is on record as a proponent of judicious progress in this direction.  Nevada County’s economy already enjoys a major contribution from the illegal RMJ that various estimates put above the $100M…

  • Unclear on the Concepts

    George Rebane Politics – Purposed pandering intended to sway a wider audience under the guise of communicating with another party. The local Wrong-way Corrigan collectivists seem to have trouble untying their bundled undies.  With one side of their mouth they are continually describing our community as being “purple”, and with the other side complaining that…

  • ERC’s 2015 Economic Development Conference

    George Rebane Yesterday afternoon and evening I, along with various board members of the Sierra Economics and Science Foundation, joined with several hundred other Nevada County residents at the Grass Valley Veterans Center to hear nationally known economics commentator and urban studies pundit Joel Kotkin, along with an invited panel of economic development professionals, to…

  • More Pabulum for the Devoutly Ignorant

    George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 21 January 2015.] Last night President Obama gave a well-delivered yet futile State of the Union speech.  It contained a list of shibboleths of the kind that the Democrats have long pilloried congressional Republicans during the last six years.  All of…

  • The Sad Tale of Lakeview, OR

    George Rebane Traveling with some friends, we just returned from a visit to Lakeview – at 4,798 feet ‘The Tallest Town in Oregon’.  Lakeview sits at the north end of Goose Lake, a huge drainage basin shared by California and Oregon.  It also advertises itself as the ‘Gateway to the Oregon Outback’ which is the sparsely…

  • Happy ‘Heckler’s Veto’ for 2015 (updated)

    George Rebane For years RR has documented the sad retreat of our fundamental rights and liberties, the withdrawal of which has not caused many an eyebrow to be raised among the country’s gruberized hosts.  Instead, it has given rise to celebrations of every newly minted political correctness by our neighbors on the Left – for…

  • Gruberize them early

    George Rebane I was chagrined but not surprised reading about Obama’s new implementation of pre-K education through his Early Head Start and Child Care Partnerships.  These federally funded programs promise to create a new bureaucracy and enlarge old ones while once again reducing the states’ ability to educate their own young.  I’m not sure how…

  • Scattershots – 6dec14 (updated 10dec14)

    George Rebane Reading the 6dec14 Union this morning, I noticed a spattering of feedback from conservatives and progressives that the editors had assembled.  Jobs and economic development have been elusive objectives for years in Nevada County.  Now that a ton of new environmental regulations are coming down the pike, it is interesting to see how both…

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