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  • 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…

  • Unclear on the Concepts

    George Rebane Politics – Purposed pandering intended to sway a wider audience under the guise of communicating with another party. The local Wrong-way Corrigan collectivists seem to have trouble untying their bundled undies.  With one side of their mouth they are continually describing our community as being “purple”, and with the other side complaining that…

  • 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…

  • County Library Needs Your Support

    [Nevada County Librarian Ms Laura Pappani sent me the following byline to inform RR readers of the current goings on with the library regarding its funding and renewal of Measure C.  Our library is transforming itself to serve the community in the age of internet connectivity, providing citizens expanded opportunities to study, communicate, retrieve information, learn, … .  It…

  • Heidi Hall can do better

    George Rebane Ms Heidi Hall is our community’s new progressive political wannabe.  She is also a newly assigned columnist for The Union and a KVMR commentator.   She is a well-spoken, handsome looking woman with plenty of education in fields that have ‘government job’ written all over them, and true to form that is her employment…

  • NC Tea Party Event – Debbie Bacigalupi

    George Rebane Judi Caler of the NCTP asked me to let RR readers know about this 28jan15 event at the NC fairgrounds.  Come and meet the local crowd of the kind of Americans that scares the crap out of the Dept of Homeland Security.  According to Team Obama, these are the real terrorists about whom the country…

  • More Pabulum for the Devoutly Ignorant

    George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 21 January 2015.] Last night President Obama gave a well-delivered yet futile State of the Union speech.  It contained a list of shibboleths of the kind that the Democrats have long pilloried congressional Republicans during the last six years.  All of…

  • The Sad Tale of Lakeview, OR

    George Rebane Traveling with some friends, we just returned from a visit to Lakeview – at 4,798 feet ‘The Tallest Town in Oregon’.  Lakeview sits at the north end of Goose Lake, a huge drainage basin shared by California and Oregon.  It also advertises itself as the ‘Gateway to the Oregon Outback’ which is the sparsely…

  • A Tale of Two Progressives

    George Rebane Two Nevada County progressives have claimed to receive different receptions from local folks and the established mover and shaker networks.  In yesterday’s (12jan15) Union we had a long lament by Jim Firth, a leader of the Democrat Party hereabouts.  Upon arriving, Mr Firth quickly jumped into local politics and came away a bit…

  • Scattershots – 6dec14 (updated 10dec14)

    George Rebane Reading the 6dec14 Union this morning, I noticed a spattering of feedback from conservatives and progressives that the editors had assembled.  Jobs and economic development have been elusive objectives for years in Nevada County.  Now that a ton of new environmental regulations are coming down the pike, it is interesting to see how both…

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