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  • Medicaid – The Growing Morass

    [This article was published in the June 2015 issue of The Nugget of the Nevada County Republican Women Federated, and is reprinted here with permission.  Its author is the Legislative Chair and 2nd VP of that organization.] Jo Ann Rebane Medicaid today has been described as a costly medical insurance financing scheme jointly funded by federal and…

  • Supes hear State of Jefferson prezo (updated 18may15)

    George Rebane This afternoon the Nevada County Supervisors heard a presentation on the State of Jefferson by the movement's local steering committee.  It was followed by public comment from both pro and con residents of our county.  I made the following statement during the public comment segment. I too want to thank you for hearing…

  • The Rising Tide of Civil Asset Forfeiture

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 6 May 2015.] “Civil asset forfeiture is a decades-old tool that gives law enforcement the power to seize property if it’s suspected of being related to a crime. … California has safeguards in place to protect innocent people from the harmful practices…

  • Suddenly SoJ has become real (updated 19apr15)

    George Rebane The State of Jefferson movement was started over a year ago to offer northern Californians and the citizens of its thinly populated rural counties an alternative to being ignored by the social engineers, central planners, and bureaucrats in Sacramento.  The cry from these people has been ignored for over a generation, and working…

  • California’s Drought and Moonbeam Madness

    George Rebane Governor Moonbeam’s latest dicta about how Californians should now take showers underlines the years long insane policies under which the Left has governed our state.  The most recently mandated 25% (of what) reduction of consumer water use is the direct result of “decades of environmental excess”. Since 2000 alone the public has expressed its…

  • 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…

  • Nevada County Economic Development

    George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary that was broadcast on 4 March 2015.] The rural counties of America are in economic doldrums.  Whatever recovery that is enjoyed in the populated urban areas is not trickling down very fast to the less populated counties located in our mountains and deserts. …

  • Governments’ Wall-to-wall Insanity

    George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary aired on 18 February 2015.] It’s again hard to know where to start.  At the federal level the administration is tying itself in knots as report after report comes in of Islamic terrorists operating on multiple continents while becoming more united and coordinated.  …

  • 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…

  • 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…

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