Several news item to follow up on later, if anyone wants to dig:
GM IPO largest ever? Why? How? Implications for average U.S. citizen.
The water just keeps getting hotter: Delta Death: How California's water policy is poisoning the bay-delta estuary
By Patrick Porgans and Lloyd Carter
news@sfbg.com
While Californians were held captive waiting for...
While Californians were held captive waiting for Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Legislature to agree on spending cuts and adopt a budget, state officials were throwing hundreds of millions of dollars down the drain and compounding California’s crisis.
Water officials have wasted more than $10 billion and 35 years in extended delays in their failed attempt to carry out their legal mandates to protect the waters of the state and restore the San Francisco Bay-Delta Estuary.
The result: water quality in the estuary is rapidly declining; fisheries are in crisis; and the proposed solution, an $11 billion bond act set for the ballot in 2012, will only make things worse...
(posted while sfbg.com and sfbayguardian.com sites are down)
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