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Apparently some news may be forthcoming about Caltrans plans to extend the westbound (southbound) piloting through GV. We'r...
Healing Times Archives
Click on the issue you would like to view:Valentines Day 2009: Healing Times Special EditionFebruary 2009: Healing Times
It's Always Darkest Just Before the Dawn, by Emmett Miller (Healing Times Feb 2, 09)
One thing is certain, there will be many losses: to ourselves, to those we care about, and to strangers who compel at our huma...
An Inauguration Day Challenge (January 15 Newsletter Article) by Emmett Miller
Inauguration Day is not usually considered a national holiday " but, to my mind, perhaps this year it should have been. Not ...
More details on Fresh & Easy coming to town
Russ Steele The Union broke the story on some new chain stores coming to Grass Valley and possibly Brunswick Basin. KNCO has an...
Some positive economic news right under our noses.
Russ Steele With all the negative economic news, business and restaurants closing, it is nice to discover some positive local e...
Union Business Blog
Russ Steele The Union has a new blog the The Bizness, which will be focusing on business issues, the good the bad and the ugly....
CCAT'S SUPPORT OF COUNTY TRANSIT (10/15/08)
CCAT presented the following recommendations to Nevada County';s Transit Services Commission in order to enhance rather than re...
Nevada County Economy Profile Study
Russ Steele Nevada County CEO Rick Haffey attended a Nevada County Profile Workshop on October 2, 2008 held in Truckee, Califor...
AJA Video is growing and breaks ground on new building.
Russ Steele On June 23rd, 2008 Litton East Partners broke ground on a building that will be come the new headquarters and corpo...
Starting a Business: It’s Never Too Late, by Michael S. Malone
At age 54, I’ve just started two companies. And what I’ve already learned from the experience is that not only am I more su...
It's been awhile
I've not often gotten to this blog since I became the CEO of the ERC, but I hope that all of that can change. Since January 1st...
Could a Nevada County Business Incubator Succeed?
Russ Steele I was looking for an other document in my Library, when I can across a report purchased long ago and put on my libr...
Grand Jury 1997-98 on Consolidating Districts
This link will take you to a pdf file of the 1997-98 Nevada County Grand Jury report on consolidating school districts.http:/ / w...
What can be done to improve Nevada County Education?
There are so many of us with different ideas about how to improve education in Nevada County. It is time for all of us to come ...
ERC launches updated web site
Russ Steele Gil Mathew announced today at the annual Board Meeting, the up dated ERC web site is now full operational. The new ...
Is It Human Evolution and We Are Destined For It?
It is hard to describe what it feels like to have devoted your life to studying and loving "the environment" including some bat...
Don't Just Be the Change, Mass-Produce It
"If our world is really looking down the barrel of environmental catastrophe, how do I live my life right now?If you read one...
Reducing/ eliminating the catalog avalanche
Here is a free service that allows you to quickly and easily get rid of all those catalogs: catalogchoice.orgI had been lulled ...
Final day for One Laptop Per Child give-one-get-one
For $400, a third world child gets a laptop, you get a laptop, and you get a $200 tax deduction.Not just any laptop -"a laptop ...
The time to act is NOW.
Bill McKibben Thursday in the Washington Post:[Climatologist James] Hansen says that we've gone too far. "The evidence indicate...
Other Voices: Senior citizens got helping hand at Penn Valley parade
An excited group of senior citizens from the Helping Hands Caregiver Resource, located at the Seventh-day Adventist Church on P...
Other Voices: Extending common courtesy
Wyoming has long been known as the land of "wide open spaces." When I was growing up in Cheyenne in the 1930s, crowd control wa...
Other Voices: Health care reform must be top priority for U.S.
Have you tried to go to one of our local emergency rooms? I hope for your sake you haven't had to.
Kudos: Sammie's Friends
I want to thank Sammie's Friends for all they have done for me and helping keep my old dog alive longer. Without the medication...
Americans need real health care reform now
I am a breast cancer survivor. I was fortunate to have Kaiser medical insurance when I needed a double mastectomy and numerous ...
Backyard burners need to be responsible with their fires
Recent letters have called for a burning ban. The problem is not with burning but with irresponsible burning. There are many la...
Re: 'Blood-sucking monster'
Your "Blood-sucking monster will devour us all" (Jeff Ackerman's May 26 column) was right on! I would take the statement "... l...
California is in deep trouble
My husband and I are native Californians who have worked all of our lives and saved every penny we could. After retirement we m...
Democracy seems to be a thing of the past
In response to Audrey Smith's letter regarding "minority rule" in California, I'd like to say that I used to think democracy, a...
America is in dire need of health care reform
We in the United States seem to believe that we are on the leading edge as a free society and in the provision of services to o...
Do some research and make your voice heard
Susan Greenwood's letter in Saturday's The Union about our broken health care system is pretty compelling information.
Other Voices: Show your pride - display the American flag
So much has been made recently of the downturn in our economy. Everyone we know has been adversely affected by this singular in...
Jeff Ackerman: Pot shop debate is a case of smoke and mirrors
A friend suggested Grass Valley would be a better place to open western Nevada County's first marijuana dispensary. "I knew a g...
Shirl Mendonca: Lake Wildwood split over changes
For six years, I've had the privilege to write about the wonderful people in LWW and the joys of living here.
Sammie's Friends is best choice to operate county animal shelter
As most of us in local animal rescue know, our county is considering privatizing the shelter part of the animal control operati...
Kudos: Bike ride fundraiser supporters
Thank you to the kind, anonymous cyclist on Lower Colfax Road who contributed $20 toward the fundraiser to the two boys working...
Kudos: Groovy Kids of NCJCC
Recently "The Groovy Kids" from Congregation B'nai Harim at the NCJCC put on a dinner/ dance and silent auction with 60's music ...
Detour is inconvenient for big-rig drivers and companies, too
As Chicken Little exclaimed when the acorn hit him on his head: "The sky is falling, the sky is falling!"Why do we proclaim and...
NID feud gives reporter heartburn
Sitting in on Nevada Irrigation District board meetings have been anything but boring in recent weeks. They are down right ...
Library scofflaws, be warned
This afternoon, I attended small claims court for Nevada County, something I had never done before.I was fascinated to learn th...
NC chamber of commerce, downtown association still in talks
As the economy has rocked our local community, Nevada City has looked for ways to save money and inevitably save jobs.Two weeks...
Evaluating the crowd at the Nevada City Classic
Make no mistake about it, the crowd was huge at the 49th annual Nevada City Bicycle Classic. The question is, how huge? I’ve ...
[Booktown Cascade Shores Dixie EndOfLife Ski the Far Stars Gold Country Trails Janaia(X) Left Coast Leaner NCFocus NU Underground Pelline ProjSimplify See Jane Do Sierra Permaculture Sierra Voices TibetTech Zuri]
First rattlesnake report of the season
Mike on Mt. View reports a "teenage" rattler on his property, which he reluctantly killed (you gotta protect the kids and pets,...
Looking for a new best friend? Why animal style???
Janis Johnson of CS has friends who found a "well trained, gentle mannered honey of a dog" up on Hwy 80 by Dutch Flat. He look...
SF Chronicle’s newsstand price goes up
The San Francisco Peninsula Press Club is reporting the San Francisco Chronicle is raising its newsstand prices Monday-Saturday...
Memorial for Darrell "Shifty" Powers
This came to me via my daughter from another relative, ex Marine:Subject: Memorial Service: you're invited...
Sierra Starr Winery: Great Place to Spend a Sunday Afternoon
Of course, Sgt. Funky was playing, so the entertainment was fab!! But Phil and Anne's location is just a beautiful setting!! Wh...
Getting Started With Your V.I.Papers
This article was originally published in The Simplifier #4.3. — Getting Started With Your V.I.Papers by Shawn Tuttle The star...
KAYAK RACES AT LOST MINE LAKE, SAT JULY 25TH
This is a really fun event at LML. You can bring your kayak or borrow one from us. Prizes for the persons making the best tim...
Raining in Oregon
Well, it's just another rainy Oregon day. Thunder clouds moved in and made lots of noise and rain all afternoon. Good day for...
To have, or not to have…
Free Red Apple on Green Grass of Fertility Originally uploaded by epSos.de Is this the sentiment that we are going to let gui...
10 Complaints Dogs Have About Their People
Ten Peeves that Dogs Have About Humans '1' Blaming your farts on me..... not funny... not funny at all !!! --------------------...
How a car can ruin a perfectly good salad.
Half-frame angry car Originally uploaded by random_dave: film for sale We (S.O. and I) were finishing making dinner--;salad w...
United States is best place to invest in (but not get) health care
If your goal as an individual is to mazimize your investment profit, rather than to get good health care, you can't beat the Un...
WATER TESTED AT LOST MINE LAKE
Lost Mine Lake's water test on Monday passed for swimming with flying colors (up to county standards). Kent Rees (CSHA Pres) an...
[Brainstorming NC Green Kiosk NC Mine Talk Powerup-NC(X) SaveTheAir(X) Saving The Sierra Sierra Summit]
A plea for parks (and a history lesson too)
My recent posting about Bodie State Park yielded a number of interesting observations. It's obvious that people care deeply abo...
Losing history - Bodie State Park slated for closure
Lost in the sagebrush hills of eastern California, Bodie State Park is one of the most well-preserved mining ghost towns in the...
Ideas for 2009, for greening Nevada County?
Until APPLE-NC or the not-yet-online Community Congress get an online discussion space, feel free to jot down ideas for making ...
Steve Enos urges Planning Commission to use CLAIM-GV's Compilation of Public Comments
In this video, excerpted (crudely) from the cable broadcast of the May 19th meeting of the Grass Valley Planning Commission, St...
Book Event, Lecture: Charles Durrett, Author of "The Senior Cohousing Handbook"
The fastest growing segment of the housing industry are people 50 years and older " over 10,000 Americans turn 50 every singl...
How much tax revenue is lost due to toxic mine waste?
I was chatting with a local businessman this morning about the Union's front-page article on Thomas Hastert's No-Contest plea...
CLAIM-GV To Host Dance Party Benefit on May 15
CLAIM-GV Press Release:"CLAIM is announcing a Spring Dance Party Benefit and Silent Auction to be held on Friday, May 15, st...
Amazon crude - California's thirst for Ecuador's oil
This past Sunday, 60 Minutes aired a fascinating piece about oil development in Ecuador's Amazon - and in particular, about a...
Speaking about energy and climate (Phil Angelides)
As an environmental journalist, I listen to a lot of speeches about energy and climate. But many, sad to say, are not that ener...
Solar manufacturing in a small town (Greenville, Michigan)
Why couldn't this happen in Nevada County?
"Death of Organic Farming"?
Here is a portion of "H.R. 875 Myths and Facts," from H.R. 875 sponsor Rep. Rosa DeLauro's website. For the full text, see:http...
Grass Valley's Gary Fosburg Invents Local Lottery
Here's Gary Fosburg's proposal for a local lottery to stimulate the economy:"To Whom It May Concern, As you will see by the at...
A burning issue: Fire and the Freedom of Information Act
The Moonlight fire, which burned some 65,000 acres near Greenville in September 2007, was one of the largest and most destruc...
Video of Proposed Idaho-Maryland Truck Route South
Here's a video of the proposed Idaho-Maryland Mine truck route south. We turned left off of Centennial Drive, onto Idaho-Maryl...
"Iron foundries emitted poisonous clouds of heavy metals"
An excerpt from "Mining California: An Ecological History," by Andrew C. Isenberg:“These [Sacramento] factories were the sour...
Local Voices Against the Mine
A random sampling of local voices speaking out against the re-opening of the Idaho-Maryland Mine (from http:/ / www.thepetitions...
A Farm for the Future (BBC Video)
"Wildlife film maker Rebecca Hosking investigates how to transform her family's farm in Devon into a low energy farm for the fu...
Efficiency of green groups ranked
We hear a lot about energy efficiency these days. What about organizational efficiency? The American Institute of Philant...
Kudos to NPR for climate debate
This morning, National Public Radio in Sacramento (KXJZ) aired a fascinating debate about the merits of reducing carbon emissio...
Climate change and national forests - a rural perspective
Since 1993, Lynn Jungwirth has spoken out often and eloquently on behalf of rural communities and healthy forests. Now, she is ...
Wood Power - Why Not Here?
A new article in Science magazine (March 13, 2009, Vol. 323) points out that highly-efficient wood-fired power plants are boomi...
How to Grow Your Own Fresh Air Indoors
"Researcher Kamal Meattle shows how an arrangement of three common houseplants, used in specific spots in a home or office buil...
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What's Playing:
Sierra Cinemas: Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs 3D, The Proposal, The Hangover, Up
Sutton Cinemas: Bruno, Public Enemies
Del Oro Theatre: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
The Nevada Theatre Film Series: [unknown]
(Magic Theatre(265-8262), Colfax)
Sierra Cinemas: Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs 3D, The Proposal, The Hangover, Up
Sutton Cinemas: Bruno, Public Enemies
Del Oro Theatre: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
The Nevada Theatre Film Series: [unknown]
(Magic Theatre(265-8262), Colfax)
NCTV ch11 (Tue 07/14/2009):
01:00 AM: Echappe: Rhythms of Life
03:00 AM: Lake Wildwood Presents: Rumors
05:00 AM: UUCM Jazz Piano Concert
06:00 AM: Democracy Now!
07:30 AM: Lake Wildwood Presents: Tickets Please!
09:30 AM: Echappe: Rhythms of Life
11:30 AM: Lake Wildwood Presents: Rumors
01:30 PM: UUCM Jazz Piano Concert
02:30 PM: Once Upon a Time at the Library
03:00 PM: GVTV News
03:30 PM: Peak Moment: Baked in Telluride
04:00 PM: The Pickle Barrel: Sheepdogs
04:30 PM: Rock Star Stories
05:00 PM: Democracy Now!
07:00 PM: Modern Times: PV Horse Reinstorm
07:30 PM: GVTV News
08:00 PM: Lake Wildwood Presents: Tickets Please!
10:00 PM: BEPE Presents: Father's Daze
11:00 PM: Nevada Union Graduation
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03:00 AM: Lake Wildwood Presents: Rumors
05:00 AM: UUCM Jazz Piano Concert
06:00 AM: Democracy Now!
07:30 AM: Lake Wildwood Presents: Tickets Please!
09:30 AM: Echappe: Rhythms of Life
11:30 AM: Lake Wildwood Presents: Rumors
01:30 PM: UUCM Jazz Piano Concert
02:30 PM: Once Upon a Time at the Library
03:00 PM: GVTV News
03:30 PM: Peak Moment: Baked in Telluride
04:00 PM: The Pickle Barrel: Sheepdogs
04:30 PM: Rock Star Stories
05:00 PM: Democracy Now!
07:00 PM: Modern Times: PV Horse Reinstorm
07:30 PM: GVTV News
08:00 PM: Lake Wildwood Presents: Tickets Please!
10:00 PM: BEPE Presents: Father's Daze
11:00 PM: Nevada Union Graduation
All Rock Show at St. Joseph's Saturday
An All Rock Show is going down at St. Joseph's Cultural Center in Grass Valley with Fate Under Fire, 2 Hot 3 Fast, Sensual Sain...
A Thousand Years at Sea CD Release Concert Friday at St. Joseph's
"A Thousand Years at Sea is the up-and-coming fusion of singer-songwriters Colin Cotter and Ethan Lewis, and pianist Neil Pearl...
Release: Sound of Music tickets on sale now
BUY YOUR TICKETS NOW FOR SIERRA STAGES’ PRODUCTION OF THE SOUND OF MUSIC AT THE MINERS FOUNDRY!Staged in a concert setting a...
AfroFest 2009 presents King Sunny Ade and His African Beats
AfroFest 2009 at the Truckee River Park Amphitheater in Truckee features King Sunny Ade and His African Beats. The music is fro...
Grass Valley / Nevada City tweetup June 17
With great inspiration from Jesse Locks (@jesselocks) and the See Jane Do (@seejanedo) crew, my newspaper (@theunion) is sponso...
Birds, Bees, Butterflies, Flowers ... and music too
May time is the month of flowers, bees and butterflies. It’s a very good time to play to this season and to tease you a lit...
World music concert and dance party benefits at-risk youth
International singing star Tina Malia, hip-hop/ reggae sensation Soul Medic, and the world music ensemble Urban Nature with Yaco...
"My Nevada City" video contest
The Nevada City Film Festival announces “My Nevada City” Video Contest presented by Citizens Bank of Northern California. ...
Phenomenal Joel Fan at TCCA Concert
I don't use the words "jaw droppingly amazing" and "phenomenal" lightly, but as am amateur pianist, I was simply past the abili...
Gamelan Sekar Jaya in the Schoolhouse amphitheater with Gary Snyder
The music, colors and dance of Bali will transport you when the percussive orchestra, Gamelan Sekar Jaya, returns to the North ...
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Note To Twitter Users: Please Stop Doing #FollowFriday Tweets
Nothing anybody tells you to do on Twitter is an absolute. Nothing. How you use it is truly up to you. That is, of course, unle...
How to use your intuition with food
Last week I promised to write a post about how to use your intuition with food. It's become so second nature to me that I forge...
10 Ways to Support Charity Through Social Media
This guest post is a collaboration between Mashable's Summer of Social Good charitable fundraiser and Max Gladwell's "10 Ways" ...
Go slow
Have you ever had those days where you can't help but move at a sluggish pace? Where your preferred mode of being includes a co...
A little ha ha for your weekend
A minister, a rabbi, and a priest were sitting in a boat, enjoying the warmth of the day. The minister says "I left my fishing ...
The power of storytelling
Years ago I had the idea to start a site where people share stories about who and what positively influenced their life. This w...
Return of the GreenSmith
It's time. Time for me to return. Return to my GreenSmith roots and to writing on this blog. Since April it's been a wild ride,...
Michael Jackson's legacy
There's been a lot of hype the past two weeks about Michael Jackson. A legend, no doubt. Creative. Eccentric. Sensitive. Defini...
Making friends with recipes
Some relationships take time. As you know, I'm not much for following recipes. I love food. Love to cook. It's all intuitive fo...
Marvel at this body!
It was a tough choice of whether to post this on Movin' On Mondays or Fabulously Fun Fridays. I chose today because what this w...
"The most profound question"
Speaking of Abraham, YouTube has a fabulous selection of their videos ranging on issues that we all want the answers to. Here's...
"Keep You Safe"
A few weeks back, I wrote about joining the Threshold Choir, a women's singing group. There is one song that we sing every time...
Creating new options for growth and change
Many years ago, I was not that into Abraham-Hicks. It was before the concept of "creating your reality" became as popular as it...
10 Ways to Change the World Through Social Media
We are honored to have our friend and fellow traveler of the intersection of social media and green, Max Gladwell grace our blo...
Conserve One of the Most Precious Resources - Trust
April Fool's Day, for those that don't know, is a chance for you to play practical jokes on people. While the pranks can be qui...
How to Optimize Twitter Communications with your Facebook Friends
I've recently been experiencing something that I imagine many of you are as well, and found an elegant solution to it. I use bo...
Energy Circle Shows How to Effectively Integrate Social Media Into Your Business
I tend to consult with companies I like. As in I'd do business with them as a customer. Recommend them to friends. Respect what...
How to Amplify Microfinance Effectiveness: Don't Pay People Back!
This week Twitter has been abuzz about the interactive, technology, social media focused component of the South By Southwest co...
Feedly: What Makes it the Best RSS Reader In Existence Today?
Today I want to tell you about an amazing find I came across last week, helping greatly accelerate my ability to take in, make ...
Why is There a Disconnect Between Green Products and The Latino/Hispanic Market?
I love Twitter. Why? Because of conversations like the one I had today. Laura Gomez, aka @lauraisgo, a self described, "latina ...
Sierra College and Economic Development
I am profoundly tardy in posting a link to George Rebane';s piece in The Union newspaper on Sierra College and the Nevada Count...
Job Losses Continue to Mount
As we begin to take action to protect students and employees by proactively making significant budget reductions at Sierra Coll...
A New Way of Thinking about Education
I';ve talked often that we need new ways of thinking about education. I was reading this morning';s Esquire piece profiling for...
SC@Work: July 11, 2009 Pre-Meeting Documents
Pre-meeting documents: Meeting Agenda Contracts (General / Capital Projects) Warrants You may notice that this meeting is on ...
How Much is Good Leadership Worth?
The Roseville Press-Tribune did a news piece asking if local school execs ";earn too much."; Among the salaries they mentioned ...
Happy Fourth of July!
Wherever you are today, make sure to stop and remember those who have made this the land of the free, and the home of the brave...
Emma Nichole Asnakech Klein
The news is still trickling out, but we';ve been matched with our little girl in Ethiopia, after starting the process back in O...
Clinton vs. Obama
This may be unpopular to say with some of my conservative friends, but I';m starting to wish Bill Clinton was President again.....
Lincoln High School wins Career and Tech Education Award
Great piece in the Lincoln News Messenger about the award for CTE (";career and technical education";) garnered by Lincoln High...
Sierra College Athletics Ranks Third in the Nation
I know a certain Athletic Director who is a little excited about this. In fact, he';s quoted in the press release. The Califo...
"...we've managed to create some people who seem to be opposed to the persistence of a viable planet" (link) - and to the health and well-being of the next 50 generations.
You'll find them down below. (And some fellows who don't particularly care are in the next column over. Fellows, please, set a better example. "If change doesn’t come from above, it must come from below."*)
See the NCFocus Layman's 1-minute guide to smart thinking about climate, on smart, quick strategies for becoming informed. That's really all it takes to know.
More on AB32 Cost to Small Business.
Russ Steele Most of the business in Nevada County are small businesses according to Gil Mathew at the Economic Resource Council...
California 1849 - 2009
[The following anonymous contribution, a la the Michael Jackson hoopla, was forwarded by a colleague and east coast corresponde...
The Cost of AB32 (updated)
Russ Steele Sacramento State College of Business Administration and Center for Small Business have complete a study of AB32 gre...
Blog Reader Input
Russ Steele Several readers have forwarded this WSJ Article hoping that I would post it. Here it is for all non-WSJ subscribers...
Is it Time for the Turing Test to Retire?’
George Rebane Definitely not. This question is asked by Dr. Aladdin Ayesh in a brief but serious article with the above title. ...
Are the NCCLI alumni up to the challenge?
Russ Steele Below is my monthly column in The Union our local newspaper. On the Dixie Fix blog I was accused of being disrespec...
The El Nino is coming, the El Nino is coming.
Russ Steele The Channel 3 weather guy was just explaining that El Nino's often bring more moisture in the form of rain to Calif...
Nevada County ARRA Still on Ice
George Rebane Well, the ARRA " aka SP787 - stimulus is performing sorta like history predicts (cf. FDR’s alphabet soup prog...
Early ARRA Results
George Rebane USA Today reports Billions in aid go to areas that backed Obama in '08’, specifically " Billions of dollars...
Tilting at global warming windmills
Russ Steele Obama, G-8 leaders agree on 2-degree Celsius target on global warming was the headline at Yahoo. Let see these are ...
Killing frost on Prince Edward Island?
Russ Steele Last year about mid June Ellen and I were on Price Edward Island, the yellow spot on the map insert. The flowers we...
'Culture and Creativity at the Edge of Nature'
Gil Mathew There were those who scoffed at that tag line, 'Culture and Creativity at the Edge of Nature', when it was first cra...
Environment Agency sets up green police
Russ Steele The boys in green are coming as the Environment Agency sets up a squad to police companies generating excessive CO2...
Glenn Beck’s Uncommon Sense
George Rebane Glenn Beck’s Common Sense " The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government has been #1 on NYT’s best seller ...
Go ahead snicker some more
Russ Steele The last time I suggested someday we would all be issued Carbon Cards Credit, we would all be allocated how much ca...
… and then, where’s Hillary?? (updated)
George Rebane Things are getting curiouser and curiouser. Today everyone is hyper-ventilating on the portents of Sarah Palin’...
Flyover Fourth (6jul2009 update)
George Rebane This Fourth was a special treat for me. After launching our celebrations last night at the outdoor Music in the M...
Obama’s Numbers and the Austrian School
George Rebane Team Obama must finally agree with Ludwig von Mises, famed economist and founder of the Austrian School of Econom...
NC Stimulus Trickle Stalled
George Rebane This week our Congressman Tom McClintock met with county leadership on Monday and was requested to find out what...
Ruminations - 2jul2009
George Rebane Juan Williams of NPR surprised the living *#%@ out of me last night not once, but TWICE! First, that Bill O’Rei...
The Littoral Combat Ship " An Unlikely Canary
George Rebane The LCS was designed and built to enable America to continue its projection of power in critical far-off coastal ...
Ruminations - 30jun2009
George Rebane We read a lot around this house. Breakfast invariably includes the WSJ and our local Union. Periodically I get on...
Congressman McClintock Comes to Our House
George Rebane Where but in America can a poor immigrant boy just off the boat (in 1949) have the privilege of hosting his Congr...