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Shovel This!
Submitted by Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D on 2.20.2003
In my last dispatch in this space three weeks ago I complained about the nuisance of the two inches of snow that had come down overnight. Today, after two feet of snow in the last 48 hours, I lay aside my snow shovel to resume worrying about global warming.
California Just Can't Cut It
Submitted by K. Lloyd Billingsley on 2.12.2003
A deficit of more than $30 billion and a sluggish economy are excellent grounds for cuts in government. California was recently handed such a chance when a state appeals court ruled 3-0 that the state's Coastal Commission is unconstitutional because it violates the separation of powers. Besides being in the court's view illegal, the Commission is also inept and facilitates corruption. But instead of disbanding the Commission, legislators began working three shifts to save the body, in a defiance of common sense, democracy, and even environmental realities.
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