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Opinion

Who the hell is this Ricker Dude?

February 6, 2012
By
rickerletter

I was reviewing the Planning Commission agenda and came across this letter purporting to represent the United States Marine Corp and its desire to involve itself into both Local Civilian Government and a desire to limit the Free Enterprise System outside the boundaries of the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center. I don’t know who this J.M. Ricker is but I’ll tell you one thing the guy is some kind of anti business, anti-free market socialist of the first order. Who does he think he is to demand in the name of the United States Marine Corps that the...

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Coffee and the San Bernardino Sun Opinion Page

February 5, 2012
By
thank-a-veteran

I rarely repeat someone else’s story, but today while reading the opinion page of  The Sun I was struck by a particular opinion article written by Paul Chabot.  Before writing this, I ran a check on Dr. Chabot and I was thoroughly impressed.  I am confident that his piece is a heartfelt cry to the residents of California to stand up for our veterans’ rights to the best health care.  His call to action is to contact your local, state, and federal elected officials and let them know that...

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Statement by Assemblyman Cook on California Running Out of Cash

February 2, 2012
By
broke

SACRAMENTO- Assemblyman Paul Cook (R-Yucca Valley) expressed alarm regarding the State Controller’s announcement that California is running out of cash. According to Controller John Chiang, the state will run out of money by March 1 if no immediate action is taken to reduce spending. The state has spent $2.6 billion more than allocated in last year’s budget agreement. Chiang stated that without an additional $3.3 billion in revenue, the state will be unable pay its bills come March 1. Without  remedy, the state will be forced to issue IOUs...

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It actually is all about the Children

February 1, 2012
By
Empty Classroom

With the report of the temporary closure of Monument High School and the Layoff of 18 teachers by the desert trail reporters Jimmy Biggerstaff and Courtney Vaughn: Budget woes close Monument High School temporarily – The Desert Trail: News: morongo unified school district, education, budget cuts, sky high school, monument high school MORONGO BASIN — Morongo Unified School District is temporarily closing one school and eliminating 18 teaching positions. The school district announced Wednesday afternoon, Feb. 1, it will close Monument, the alternative high school in Twentynine Palms, and...

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Eminent Domain Abuse Comes to an End in California

February 1, 2012
By
Eminent Domain Abuse Comes to an End in California

Friends: We are sure you’ve heard the exciting news—California’s redevelopment agencies officially closed up shop today! Your advocacy over the years has shined a glaring spotlight on these agencies’ habitual abuse of eminent domain. Redevelopment has threatened thousands of homes, businesses, churches and farms with condemnation, not for roads or post offices, but for politically-connected developers. Some of you receiving this e-mail have been able to defeat the unholy alliance of tax-hungry governments and land-hungry developers. Others of you have lost what you’ve worked so hard to own to...

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Federal Workers Overpaid, and CBO Agrees

February 1, 2012
By
fat-guy-in-chair-thumb

Here’s some news that federal bureaucrats in Washington — and indeed around the country — don’t want to hear: According to a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report released this week, federal workers are paid higher than their private-sector counterparts. The “alarming news” hit the national media yesterday, but there’s a funny thing about the report. None of it is really “news” — in fact, The Heritage Foundation long ago uncovered the truth about federal pay. The CBO’s report this week was spurred in part by two years of work on federal compensation conducted by Heritage and...

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A Foul Attempt to Weaken ‘Three Strikes’

January 31, 2012
By
three-strikes2

Some criminals never learn.  Neither do those who think the answer to our prison problems is to become lenient on hardened criminals.  How?  By weakening our landmark “Three Strikes” law.  Despite all good sense and statistics, they continue to push changes to undermine it.  Assembly Bill 327, which just passed the State Assembly, is the latest attempt to weaken Three Strikes.  This terrible piece of legislation states that the third offense must be as heinous as the previous two offenses, a concept as dangerous as it is misguided.  Our...

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The Demise of California’s Redevelopment Agencies: The End of a War Against Ourselves

January 31, 2012
By
K st Sacramento California 1945

SACRAMENTO BLIGHT FLIGHT – The city of Sacramento, my adopted hometown, has always been at war with downtown blight. Do I exaggerate? It will not seem so to most Sacramentans, we who have arrived here, by birth or by choice, since city fathers first rolled out the big guns of redevelopment in 1950. It started in the West End, the neighborhood sandwiched between the State Capitol and the Sacramento River. In old pictures, the West End is a jumble of Victorian houses, brick hotels, bars, eateries, garages, machine shops,...

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Cruising for a bruising February 1st fast approaches

January 29, 2012
By
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Come Wednesday local government as we know it will cease to exist. Redevelopment and the schemes that redevelopment brought will be gone. Things that in our case 29 Palms has brought to the table in since Jan 1, 2011, can and will be contested by those who will set on the Oversight Board, that will as of February 1st be in charge to the Successor Agencies. What about that bond? Those bond issues passed during the period that the State forbid such activity expressly to Launder redevelopment money from potentially the Morongo Unified...

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Travelin’ HDWD Directors using our Public Funds!

January 28, 2012
By
suitcase_of_money

Yucca Valley, Ca.- Opinion.  Get out your air sick barf bags because the Hi-Desert Water District Board of Directors wants to jet around from here to there on your dime!  At the last meeting there was an “Emergency” item placed on the agenda because Staff just received notification of a conference relating to water issues that would be taking place before the next meeting.  This conference was approved, this ONE TIME, to authorize the Directors to attend and be paid $125 daily, meals, mileage, taxi and often hotel accommodations....

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