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The following is my short testimony during the the State Water Resources Control Board workshop Monday on the Big Ag-promoted voluntary agreements being pushed by the Newsom Administration: My name is Dan Bacher, independent journalist. I strongly...
by Dan Bacher
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Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón has been a favorite target of conservatives ever since he was elected the top prosecutor for America’s most populous county in 2020. Now faces a ...
by Jeff Singer
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on Wed Mar 29, 2023 at 11:54 AM PDT
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Pence ordered to testify More white GOP voter fraud in FL SCOTUS allows KS racial gerrymander AR Repubs attack direct democracy Mentally ill TN shooter legally purchased seven guns... Ya know, if their ideas were popular, Republicans wouldn't have to...
by TheBradBlog
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On March 20, the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments for Arizona v. Navajo Nation, in which the Navajo Nation argues that the U.S. has a treaty-based duty to plan for and protect its water interests. The justices’ decision — due this...
by mettle fatigue
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on Tue Mar 28, 2023 at 04:06 PM PDT
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Despite Big Oil spending over $34.2 million on lobbying the Legislature over the past two years and millions of dollars more over the past three months, a bill backed by Governor Newsom to create a new state watchdog with power to prevent price gouging...
by Dan Bacher
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on Mon Mar 27, 2023 at 05:00 PM PDT
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Breaking — press release from the Yurok Tribe, PCFFA and IFR about their lawsuit against the Bureau of Reclamation Federal Agency Cuts Flows as the Largest River Restoration Project Begins San Francisco, CA – Last week, the Yurok Tribe, with the...
by Dan Bacher
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on Mon Mar 27, 2023 at 09:59 AM PDT
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At the start of 2022, Thomas Marshall weighed 311 pounds. He had been hospitalized 10 times in five years, including six surgeries. He had an open wound on his left leg that refused to heal — made worse by living in a dirty, moldy house with five other...
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on Sun Mar 26, 2023 at 11:06 AM PDT
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Salmon fishing season is closed on the ocean, Central Valley rivers and Klamath River this year while the Delta smelt and other fish species move closer and closer to extinction in the wild. We must take action now to stop things from getting even...
by Dan Bacher
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on Fri Mar 24, 2023 at 10:50 AM PDT
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Officials share strategy and timelines for Klamath dam removal, river restoration Yreka, CA – Work has officially begun on removing the four dams that comprise the Lower Klamath Hydropower Project, according to a news briefing held on March 23. “Crews...
by Dan Bacher
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on Fri Mar 24, 2023 at 08:37 AM PDT
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Bus drivers shuttle America’s children to schools where cafeteria workers feed them and teacher aides assist students who need the most help. And their pay is notoriously low. School support staffers earn, on average, about $25,000 a year in Los...
by Associated Press stories chosen by Daily Kos staff
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on Wed Mar 22, 2023 at 03:14 PM PDT
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Allensworth Progressive Association Press Release The Community of Allensworth Rallies to Confront the Unprecedented Threat from Storm Run-Off. News release of the Allensworth Progressive Association Date: Monday, March 20, 2023 Time: 9:30 PM The...
by Dan Bacher
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on Tue Mar 21, 2023 at 11:10 AM PDT
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Here at Top Comments we strive to nourish community by rounding up some of the site's best, funniest, most mojo'd & most informative commentary, and we depend on your help!! If you see a comment by another Kossack that deserves wider recognition,...
by gizmo59
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on Sun Mar 19, 2023 at 07:00 PM PDT
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The stock market is however economy-adjacent as we know dimensionally, the map is not the territory. Markets remain efficient only if enough people believe they are not, much like clubs we wouldn’t want to join because they would have us as a member....
by annieli
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on Fri Mar 17, 2023 at 05:52 PM PDT
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SACRAMENTO, CA— As regulatory capture by Big Oil and Big Gas becomes deeper and deeper in the supposedly “green” state of California, climate activists with the Last Chance Alliance held a protest at noon on March 17 outside the California Natural...
by Dan Bacher
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on Fri Mar 17, 2023 at 09:36 AM PDT
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and �...
by side pocket
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This may be the last of my semi-weekly reports on the Covid-19 pandemic for a while, since there don’t seem to be signs of a new resurgence yet, and I’ll be taking off on a month-long cruise shortly where I’ll be out of internet contact for most of...
by Irontortoise
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on Sat Mar 11, 2023 at 08:47 PM PST
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SVB Financial Group, doing business as Silicon Valley Bank, had not only the first bank failure since 2020, but it also had the largest bank failure since the Great Recession, as the bank was closed by California bank regulators. Almost 90 per cent of...
by OK Dodo
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on Fri Mar 10, 2023 at 04:26 PM PST
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Seems a bit like the chaotic part of creative destruction at work, causing mayhem in the tech startup community of Silicon Valley. Some of the bank run may have been triggered by Peter Theil, and a few may have profited despite the kinds of funds held...
by annieli
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on Fri Mar 10, 2023 at 07:31 PM PST
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Responding to pressure by fishing and environmental groups and the changing water conditions as a series of atmospheric rivers entered California, the State Water Resources Control Board on March 9 reversed its emergency order that waived Bay-Delta...
by Dan Bacher
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on Sat Mar 11, 2023 at 01:45 PM PST
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A coalition of environmental groups – the California Water Impact Network, the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance, and AquAlliance – have submitted a notice of intent to sue the State Water Resources Control Board unless it rescinds an order...
by Dan Bacher
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