by jpitney | Jan 24, 2025 | 2776, California Politics, Electoral College, Environment, History, Immigration, Jobs, Lincoln, Mass Media, Race, Redistricting, Trade, Vaccine
Connor Sheets at LAT: Los Angeles County officials missed dozens of opportunities for water infrastructure improvements that experts say probably would have enabled firefighters to save more homes during the Palisades fire, public records show. As crews battled...
by jpitney | Jan 31, 2024 | Bureaucracy, California Politics, Environment
Dan Walters at CalMatters enumerates California government’s many dysfunctional projects and adds two to the list. California received $800 million from a settlement with German carmaker Volkswagen over its cheating on pollution emission testing and has spent...
by jpitney | Dec 19, 2021 | Environment, Rural voters
On NPR, Don Gonyea interviewed Steve Bullock: GONYEA: One issue you’ve pointed to is climate change and how Democrats have to be careful about how they talk about that issue in rural America. Explain. BULLOCK: Make no mistake, we have to address climate. But as...
by jpitney | Sep 19, 2021 | Environment, Romney
From Senator Mitt Romney: U.S. Senators Mitt Romney (R-UT) and Michael Bennet (D-CO) today led a Colorado River trip focused on solutions to building climate resilience in the West. From Hittle Bottom to the Rocky Rapid campground outside of Moab, Utah, the senators...
by jpitney | Aug 21, 2021 | California Politics, Emergency, Environment
Emily Hoeven at CalMatters: Californians who want to know how much progress the state unemployment department has made on crucial reforms will likely have to wait until after the Sept. 14 recall election of Gov. Gavin Newsom. That’s because state lawmakers have twice...
by jpitney | Jul 26, 2021 | Environment, Nixon
On December 28, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon signed the Endangered Species Act. In his signing statement, he said: “Nothing is more priceless and more worthy of preservation than the rich array of animal life with which our country has been blessed. It is...
