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  • Ruminations – 9jan18 (updated 11jan18)

    George Rebane If Oprah runs for president in 2020, I guess our progressives will then label her as a “liar” since she has long maintained that she would not run for public office.  You think that standard has application on both sides of the aisle?  Nah, neither do I. The Dems and their El Salvadorean…

  • County’s Cannabis Conundrum Continues (updated 9jan18)

    George Rebane The Union this (8jan18) morning has a problem connecting some dots when they claim that 1) RMJ retailers can’t get licensed in the county because they must buy product only from licensed growers, and 2) the county has yet to forge a new MJ ordinance that allows county growers to get licensed.  What…

  • CAG’s Draft Pot Ordnance Examined

    [The following email from Bob Hren, Nevada County Republican Chairman, was sent this morning.  In it Mr Hren comments on what the Community Advisory Group recommends about the number of marijuana plants to be permitted on various sized parcels.  It is posted as received.  gjr] All, The draft pot rules just released put Residential-Agriculture parcels…

  • Ruminations – 4dec17 (updated 7dec17)

    George Rebane California’s land use and housing crisis continues in full swing, and is caused by Sacramento abetted by local loonies in county and city governments.  Here is a piece by some heavy weight economists at the Hoover Institution to give you a measure of the ongoing insanity in our state. IRS scumbag Lois Lerner,…

  • US Students’ PISA Ratings

    George Rebane The latest (2015) release of PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) scores are out, and the all important ratings for 15-year-olds in now a matter of record.  We have long mourned the performance deficits in our educational system and the resulting standing our students have on the international stage where America must compete…

  • Gas tax – Hren answers Boardman

    [NC Republican Party Chairman emailed me this response to George Boardman’s 29oct17 column for publication.  It appears that Mr Boardman missed an important point or two on the new CA gas tax.  gjr] George, Your column yesterday was OK but very incomplete and inflamatory.  You failed to mention why there are no funds for road…

  • Sandbox – 21oct17

    [The last sandbox was a bit overfull, other than that it appears that 'climate change' has again become the perennially misunderstood issue of interest du jour.  I was a bit surprised that Thomas Elias <tdelias@aol.com>, waxing on the evidence for inevitable climate change in the 21oct17 Union, never once mentioned even the existence of credited and…

  • Why Not 24/7 Air Attack? (updated 11oct17)

    George Rebane Dropping fire suppressants from fixed and rotary wing aircraft is an extremely effective way to fight wildfires.  Living in the southern California mountains we annually witnessed how air attack kept little fires from becoming big, and big fires from going into populated areas.  In the 1993 Malibu fire, it was five or six…

  • Education – Nevada County’s Quiet Crisis

    George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 4 October 2017.] Amid an ongoing parade of mass demonstrations against racism, massive calamities by mother nature, and mass shootings at public venues, we have another ongoing, more insidious, and little-known crisis that directly impacts our community, and will continue to…

  • Samples of Snowflakes’ Safespace Sophistries

    George Rebane This Thursday conservative commentator Ben Shapiro is scheduled to speak at UC Berkeley.  To gird the fragile ideological loins of its student body, that campus’s Executive Vice President and Provost, Paul Alivisatos has published this memo for the university’s students and faculty. We are deeply concerned about the impact some speakers may have…

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