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  • George Rebane I had lunch the other day with my editor/publisher Jeff Ackerman.  We talked of shoes and ships and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings.  And then the topic of Gloria Zane came up.  It turns out that Gloria has been making the rounds of some local blogs lately and taking a very dim…

  • George Rebane [This is another in a continuing series of autobiographical sketches that I have been asked to write by friends and family.  I share it with you, my readers, in the hope that these little vignettes of history and the American immigrant experience are of interest.  But most of all, I hope it may…

  •   Happy Easter from our family to you and yours. George and Jo Ann

  • George Rebane Dr Anna Haynes is a True Believer in Anthropogenic Global Warming and its dire consequences for all Mankind.  She has taken great exception to my being an AGW skeptic, and has recorded her distress – • On her personal website NC Focus,• On her community information website NC Voices,• During her requested meetings with me,• During an…

  • George Rebane Some of our local environmentally sensitive and concerned voices were disappointed in the level of participation in last night’s politically correct Earth Hour.  As a public service for those folks, RR is publishing a space photo of one of several nations around the globe that take saving energy real seriously.  As you can…

  • George Rebane Today the fourth annual merit scholarship TechTest was given in the Science Lecture Hall of Nevada Union High School.  The test was administered by NUHS physics teacher Mr John McDaniel who also heads the TechTest academic committee.   I visited the lecture hall this morning and took the nearby pictures.  Mr McDaniel told me that…

  • George Rebane Congressman Bart Stupak (D-MI) presents at the same time the best and worst views of a professional politician.  This man has pandered his voters for years on the notion that he was like most of them, against the federal funding of abortion.  Suddenly nationalized healthcare hung in the balance.  Then, recognizing the man…

  • George Rebane Nevada City’s efforts to attract Google’s attention for field testing its new broadband program is making news in the big city.  The New York Times described our community hullabaloo held Saturday a week ago.  Russ has more about that on NC Media Watch. In a side discussion with an old friend and internet academic,…

  • George Rebane Yesterday’s nationquake still trembles, and now we await the aftershocks that will follow in the coming months.  They will come as surprises to many but not all of us.  Only one much-touted promise of Obamacare will actually come true – redistributive subsidies.  But you will NOT see the promised • Lower insurance premiums, they will…