Bluoz (Entries tagged as California)

Klamath restoration begins

nospam@example.com () — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 07:58:00 -0700

from Fisheries.org and Klamath Restoration

P R E S S R E L E A S E

Karuk Tribe

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE : June 14, 2010

Sacramento, CA � Today federal and state officials coordinating the environmental review of the pending Klamath Restoration Agreements announced the Notice of intent to prepare an Environmental Impact Report and notice of public scoping meetings. This signals the beginning of the scientific and legal reviews mandated by the National Environmental Policy Act and the California Environmental Quality Act.

For the past several decades a crippling cycle of crisis has gripped the Klamath Basin. A series of fish kills, irrigation shut-offs, and bans on commercial salmon has resulting in a rotating crisis for Basin communties that has often led to finger pointing between neighbors. However, in recent years a large number of affected parties successfully negotiated a pair of Settlement Agreements aimed at resolving many Klamath River conflicts. The Klamath Agreements were signed February 18, 2010 by Governors Schwarzenegger and Kulongoski, Secretary of Interior Salazaar, leaders of the Karuk, Yurok, and Klamath Tribes, and a host of local irrigation districts, governments and conservation organizations.

Redding pitches Google fiber on Youtube

nospam@example.com () — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 11:04:32 -0700

this video made by the City of Redding in it's pitch to get Google fiber made the grand prize for the top five worst videos

reduced whey cheez food product

Can San Francisco make one cheezier?

Eureka earthquake on video

nospam@example.com () — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:21:09 -0700

Dear Arnie

nospam@example.com () — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:29:24 -0700

dated July 6, 2009, regarding cuts to the University of California

full letter (PDF)

Dear Governor Schwarzenegger:
The three hundred signers of this letter write to you as members of the US
National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute
of Medicine, and as professors at the University of California to express our deep concern
about the latest round of proposed cuts to the UC budget. Current proposals being
weighed by your office and the Legislature call for a 19% reduction from 2007-8 levels
in state support for UC, producing an $800 million shortfall in the UC budget for the
2009-10 fiscal year. This will lead to increases in student fees, reductions in pay or
furloughs for faculty and staff, and cuts in virtually all University services. These cuts
will be devastating to every part of the University’s mission, but as scientists and
engineers we are particularly concerned about their effects on the future of science and
technology in California. While we recognize that our state faces an unprecedented
financial crisis, the proposed cuts come on top of a decades-long trend of declining state
support for the University of California. The situation has reached a breaking point.
Further cuts of the magnitude being contemplated in the latest round of
budget proposals are likely to destroy UC’s status as the leading public university in
the United States. This would undermine prospects for economic recovery and
damage California’s competitiveness for decades.

California is broke

nospam@example.com () — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:38:30 -0700

in honor of the formerly great state of California

All hands abandon ship!

California IOU

nospam@example.com () — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:19:52 -0700

No Sign of Deal to Close Deficit (Businessweek)

just a ~~few days away~~ two days away. The tenderloin might turn into a ghost town, and it might be like when Jerry Garcia died in 1995 and all the deadheads went back to their home state of realityland and got a job

Roughly $3 billion worth of IOUs will be issued in July unless a compromise on closing the deficit is reached quickly. They will be sent to state contractors, college students, welfare recipients, low-income seniors, the disabled and others who depend on or deliver social services.

spare change?

nospam@example.com () — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:06:17 -0700

Dear Mr. Secretary,

First of all, let me commend you for your leadership to enact emergency economic stabilization legislation. This credit crisis has the power to grind the U.S. economy to a halt if swift and decisive action is not taken immediately. The federal rescue package is not a bailout of Wall Street tycoons - it is a lifeboat for millions of Americans whose life savings, businesses, retirement plans and jobs are at stake. I have communicated this message to the entire California Congressional delegation and will continue to press for passage of an emergency rescue plan.

Like many other states, California is feeling the enormous effects of this crisis on our economy. California's economy is dynamic and resilient, but also uniquely sensitive to national and international economic conditions and fluctuations in the financial markets. The credit crisis has frozen investment and commerce, forcing businesses and families to stop purchasing goods and services. This has resulted in tens of thousands of lost jobs and billions of dollars in lost tax revenue to the state.

Most immediately, California and a number of other state and local governments are experiencing the lack of liquidity in the credit markets firsthand. Many states and local governments have been unable to secure financing for bond offerings and for routine cash flow used to make critical payments to schools, local governments and law enforcement. While some states may be able to absorb a delay or obtain high-interest financing through private banks, California is so large that our short-term cash flow needs exceed the entire budget of some states. We expect to issue $7 billion in Revenue Anticipation Notes for short term cash flow purposes in a matter of days.

Absent a clear resolution to this financial crisis that restores confidence and liquidity to the credit markets, California and other states may be unable to obtain the necessary level of financing to maintain government operations and may be forced to turn to the Federal Treasury for short-term financing.

The economic fallout from this national credit crisis continues to drain state tax coffers, making it even more difficult to weather the continuation of frozen credit markets for any length of time. I will continue to do all I can to encourage passage of the emergency rescue plan.

Sincerely,

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Judge Judy's earthquake

nospam@example.com () — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 07:30:01 -0700

from yesterday in Los Angeles at the Judge Judy Studios

California Fires From Space update6

nospam@example.com () — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:09:26 -0700

from just just a few hours ago, July 10th, 2008. What a difference a few hours make. The smoke plume is covering almost the entire northern state of California now. Click image for original

Smoke for hundreds of miles

nospam@example.com () — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:38:10 -0700

view over the Sacramento valley. Taken today, July 10th over the Sacramento Valley. Click photos for originals

view over the top of the fires

California Fires From Space update5

nospam@example.com () — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:44:26 -0700

most recent image from yesterday, July 9, 2008. What a mess. Click image for original resolution

California Fires From Space update4

nospam@example.com () — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:50:58 -0700

Dang, I lived in Chico as a kid, and it looks like the smoke plume is right over that from the Paradise Fire

I miss biking up the Honey Run to Paradise. click photo for original resolution. This photo is from yesterday, July 8, 2008

California Fires From Space update3

nospam@example.com () — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 07:58:39 -0700

From yesterday, July 6, 2008
click photo for high resolution original

also see the updated NIFC page

Building Codes Online

nospam@example.com () — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:01:19 -0700

California building codes are now free and online, along with electric codes, mechanical codes, plumbing codes, elevator codes, energy codes, fire codes, historical building codes, existing building codes. A huge database, all for free

Note, many codes have been available here, although up until recently much of it was pretty old (code of civil procedure (attorneys), penal code, corporations code, fish and game code, education code, etc

California Fires From Space

nospam@example.com () — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 13:12:56 -0700

Northern California fires seen in this NASA image from yesterday, June 27, 2008. Click image for the original high resolution image

more photos