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  • MMJ Ordinance – The Saga Continues

    George Rebane The years long debate on RR over how to deal with MJ grows in Nevada County now enters a new, and perhaps final phase.  Our latest post on this was ‘Medical Marijuana Ordinance – BoS Meeting’.   I want that post to be a preamble to the continued deliberations for NC's newly adopted MMJ…

  • Wages by Fiat

    George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 3 August 2016.] Liberal economist Professor Alan Blinder of Princeton maintains that 'Only (Hillary Clinton) Can Make Wages Grow Again', and then launches into a lecture on how economic policies by government fiat will outperform the market driven nostrums advanced by Donald…

  • ‘… stuck on 1% growth.’ (updated 2aug16)

    George Rebane On the last day of the Democratic Convention we suddenly saw some very un-Democratic displays of military officers on the podium, (borrowed) Old Glories galore, and shouts of ‘USA!, USA!, …’ from the floor.  So much in fact that NPR’s Weekend Edition had to do a feature piece on it asking experts what…

  • Ruminations – 27jul16 (updated 3aug16)

    “The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.”  Confucius George Rebane Since Turkey’s Erdogan most recently explained to the world of infidels – “Islam is Islam, there are no modifiers.  Democracy is the train we ride to our ultimate objective.” – more and more articles now appear expanding on that truth…

  • Medical Marijuana Ordinance – BoS Meeting

    George Rebane Tomorrow the Nevada County Board of Supervisors will meet to “Introduce/Waive further reading/Adopt An Urgency Ordinance adding Subsections … (long list of subsections) … of Article 5 of Chapter IV, of the Nevada County General Code, regarding Marijuana Cultivation Regulations. (4/5 affirmative vote required)”  The meeting will be held in the Rood Center…

  • Reinette Senum – the aftermath (12aug16 update)

    George Rebane It appears that enough dust has settled around Ms Senum’s unfortunate remarks about the nation’s police departments that we can bring closure to the factors involved in the considerable support she has received for her (now clarified) sentiments.  My own support of her position was published in the 13jul16 Union and in these pages…

  • Web Handles – their use and abuse

    George Rebane The topic of anonyimity in web comment streams has risen again in these pages.  The most recent instigation was the advent of a commenter who signed himself  “XXXXX” that set off a stream of responses from other commenters some of whom also use a ‘nom de web’.  Under ‘Hillary’s First Loyalty’ I questioned XXXXX’s…

  • Reinette: ‘I will not resign’ (updated 18jul16)

    [13jul16 – This commentary sans update also appeared in the op-ed pages of today’s Union.]  George Rebane Well good for her, she has the courage of her convictions and the determination to represent her constituency – the people who voted for her.  While I take great exception to Reinette Senum’s grossly uninformed assertion that the…

  • Scattershots – 10jul16 (updated 14jul16)

    George Rebane Progressivism's Litmus Test is their introduction of public policies that eliminate dependence of social order on culture, and their replacement with prescriptions based solely on the state's threat of gratuitous and arbitrary application of overwhelming force. National Lie #53(or whatever) – Illegal aliens are a net contribution to our GDP.  Really?? … according to a new report from…

  • ASA’s recommendations for new interim MMJ ordinance

    George Rebane Ms Patricia Smith, MMJ champion and president of the local Americans for Safe Access, invited Mr Eddie Garcia (NC SoJ steering committee) and me to have lunch and discuss the progress toward a draft of the new interim MMJ ordinance that the NC BoS will adopt before Labor Day.  The county and stake…

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