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  • 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…

  • 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. …

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • [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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…