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  • ‘Rural Myths’ – don’t worry, be happy (updated 2mar12)

    George Rebane There is no question that governments at all levels have become less efficient from the taxpayers’ viewpoint.  This inefficiency is felt from many quarters and with respect to applied metrics, ranging from ‘bang per buck’, through layers of onerous regulations and mandates, to the ongoing removal of freedoms often through gratuitous criminalizations. We…

  • TechForum2012 inaugurates a new community event

    George Rebane This afternoon TechForum2012 passed into history as a wonderfully successful new type of luncheon speaker series focusing on the accelerating technologies that will affect all of us in how we work, play, learn, live long, and prosper.  The event was sponsored by the Sierra Economics and Science Foundation to support its ongoing and…

  • America’s Technical Talent Slide vs TechForum

    George Rebane The fraction of technical workers in America stopped increasing in 2000, and actually decreased until 2006 when it seemed to flatten out.  Now that fraction has started going down again.  All during this time foreign-born scientists and engineers have been making up more and more of this meager workforce, working in professions that…

  • To Benefit Our Community

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regular KVMR commentary which will enjoy a delayed airing on Monday 13 February 2012 due to the station’s winter fund raising scheduled for this week.] Regular listeners to these commentaries will recognize a different thrust and tone in my subject matter.  Tonight I will urge you to…

  • SESF Launches TechForum

    George Rebane TechForum is a new program from the Sierra Economics and Science Foundation that will feature distinguished speakers and prominent industry professionals to talk about advances in technology that will impact Nevada County businesses, industry, governments, and education.  These quarterly presentations are designed around a congenial luncheon format that allows the participants to connect…

  • A TPP Evening with Mark Meckler

    George Rebane A vision cannot be imposed on a people, it can only be inspired. After a good dinner at the GV Cirino’s, the Steeles and Rebanes hightailed it to the fairgrounds for the monthly evening gathering of the Nevada County Tea Party Patriots.  Our featured speaker was Mark Meckler, national co-counder of the TPP. …

  • Responding to Mr Fred Perry (updated 24jan2012)

    George Rebane Too bad that The Union has erected a paywall around its online edition that also includes their op-ed pages.  Usually newspapers going to that source of revenue leave their op-ed pieces as free content so that it will attract more eyeballs, and in the process help sell 'premium content' that’s behind the paywall. …

  • Log entry on the road to ruin (aka fundamental transformation)

    George Rebane As usual I woke up to National Propaganda Radio and heard a mind-numbing hit piece on income inequality that for openers confused tax fraction, tax rate, paid taxes beyond any means of recovery.  But they did manage not to mangle the message that rich people should not make so much money, and most…

  • Bob Crabb Nails Christmas

    [This cartoon by Nevada County’s irreverent interpreter of all things human and RR regular, RL ‘Bob’ Crabb, appears in its usual slot on the Tuesday opinion page in the 13dec11 Union (here).  I just had to filch it for readers who might otherwise have missed this precise pique through the heart of the perennial political…

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