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  • George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 6 July 2016.] Today millions of Americans believe that yesterday morning we saw justice publicly executed at the hand of a corrupt federal government.  And the executioner was none other than FBI Director James Comey, who was not supposed to wield…

  • George Rebane This morning we heard FBI Director James Comey announce that the bureau’s exhaustive investigation found no reason to bring criminal charges against Hillary Clinton regarding the goings on with her private email servers when she was Secretary of State. His conclusion was based on two factors – Lack of intent to harm the…

  • George Rebane This morning’s massacre at an Orlando LGBT nightclub provides and ongoing confirmation of the chasm between Left and Right America.  From the national Democratic leadership and their lamestream media right down to our own RR readers of a markedly progressive bent, their impetus is to deny, minimize, or ignore – Any connection to…

  • George Rebane Alexander Rossi of Nevada City won the Indianapolis classic as a rookie entry starting in the 11th position in the middle of the pack.  It was an unbelievably tactical race that brought Rossi across the finish line first while literally running on vapors that he and his team husbanded in the last few…

  • George Rebane Yesterday we returned from a couple of weeks in Europe with friends visiting Czech Republic, Austria, Slovakia, and Hungary.  Somewhere I picked up massive cold augmented by the Hungarian Hack that I brought home on a miserable return from Budapest to SFO in three draining hops.  Air travel (we traveled first and biz…

  • George Rebane Last week we celebrated the tenth anniversary of TechTest at its traditional Survivors’ Breakfast held each spring at Tofanelli’s in Grass Valley.  TechTest is a four-hour merit scholarship examination, sponsored by the Sierra Economics and Science Foundation, used to award cash prizes to Nevada County seniors headed for STEM careers.  The awards are…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • George Rebane All sorts of news outlets, save the lamest of the lamestream, today report that Fidel has written Obama an ‘up yours’ letter subsequent to our president’s obsequious visit to Cuba. You can bet that this from-the-sidelines message was Raul’s idea.  Add to that his Tango Trip to Argentina, is there no one in…

  • The three words that changed the world, and unto this day stand between us and oblivion.