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  • TechTest2016 Survivors’ Breakfast

    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…

  • Ruminations – 3may16 (updated)

    Not the village constable.  There are men of evil mind, who would make of everything a crime, and not because of passion, but just naturally.  They condemn everybody, some for what they have done, and others for what they may do. …  Gracian #109 George Rebane It was 13 years ago today that we moved…

  • Nevada County’s economic development – augmented or virtual?

    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…

  • Ruminations on 2016 Economic Development (updated 8apr16)

    George Rebane You can never go wrong in today's media making fun of a white, anglo-saxon businessman. The economy and economic development is on everyone’s lips these days. The Left continues to conjure the vision of an ephemeral Obama recovery from the ongoing ‘Great Recession’.  The Right points to the fabricated and pretzellated statistics the…

  • Nevada County’s Latest Economic Development Push (updated 4apr16)

    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…

  • Valemaxes for Nevada County?

    George Rebane The so-called Valemax bulk carrier ships at 400,000 tons deadweight are among the largest vessels on the world’s oceans, each being almost 1,200 feet long with 200+ foot beam and drawing about 75 feet fully loaded.  The ship class was chartered by Vale SA, a Brazilian mining company, to carry iron from Brazil…

  • Scattershots – 20feb16 (updated 22feb16)

    George Rebane Consider that it is the progressive college administrators who back public policies that let them raise tuition costs to levels out of reach of the same poor whom they cynically claim to champion. Pope Francis’ latest foray into politics on his Mexican visit includes his now familiar socialist screed of demanding “justice for undocumented…

  • Dr Anna Haynes strikes again (updated 4mar16)

    George Rebane Dr Haynes is the formerly strident voice of Preventable Global Warming and little known owner of NC Voices, a generally useful concentrator of regional news sites, media outlets, and blogs.  She has run this site for some years and recently did a redesign of it.  On it we conservative bloggers have always been consigned…

  • How well do we predict? (updated 10feb16)

    George Rebane In the months leading up to this election year these pages have recorded a lot of predictions, some more vehement than others.  Predicting, estimating, forecasting, …, all of them are hard and involve some level of risk depending how well these efforts are carried out.  We spend almost every waking moment taking some…

  • Predicting with Expressed Beliefs – a formal approach

    George Rebane We’ll start by skipping the famous Yogism about predicting.  But living life successfully requires us to constantly predict the future – events that may or not happen in a time yet to come.  It’s necessary to do that because we have to prepare for various futures by deciding what actions to take right…

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