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Showing posts with label US st California. Show all posts
Showing posts with label US st California. Show all posts

Thursday, May 26, 2016

The story behind the Sacramento Rte 50 Ocean City signs



Two Coasts, Two Cities, Two Signs: The Story Behind The ‘Ocean City MD 3073’ Sign - Melody Stone, Friday, May 6, 2016 | Sacramento, CA http://www.capradio.org/72367

Motorists traveling on 50 East in Sacramento may be familiar with this perfectly normal-looking mileage sign — on first glance, it’s like every other mileage sign along California highways listing the cities you’ll be passing with the number of miles to go.

But on second glance, this sign gives pause — Placerville is about an hour away, and South Lake Tahoe double that, depending on traffic. But why does far-off Ocean City, Maryland merit a mention?

The simple fact is that US 50 paves 3,000-plus miles from Ocean City, Maryland to Sacramento, California, but there’s more to the story.

In the 1980s John R. Cropper, Jr. worked as the head of statewide highway maintenance for Caltrans. Cropper, now 92, was the man who instigated the sign listing Ocean City, MD as 3073 down the road.


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Monday, August 25, 2014

Northern California wine country rattled by magnitude-6.0 earthquake. Damages could surpass $1 billion. - The Washington Post

Northern California wine country rattled by magnitude-6.0 earthquake. Damages could surpass $1 billion. - The Washington Post: "An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.0 struck the San Francisco Bay area early Sunday, prompting California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) to declare a state of emergency. The earthquake hit just before 3:30 a.m. Pacific time about 10 miles northwest of American Canyon, which is about six miles southwest of Napa, in California’s wine country, according to the U.S. Geological Survey."

Northern California rattled by magnitude 6.0 earthquake, region’s largest quake in 25 years... The quake’s epicenter was in the Napa Valley, according to the USGS.


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Thursday, August 08, 2013

Braking the speeding habit on the I-15 to Las Vegas - latimes.com

Braking the speeding habit on the I-15 to Las Vegas - latimes.com

"By John M. Glionna August 1, 2013, 6:41 p.m.

LAS VEGAS — Call it the Vegas itch. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-las-vegas-speeding-20130802,0,4139129.story


Nevada troopers are clamping down on speeding on Interstate 15 from the California state line to Las Vegas, a stretch where fast driving often has deadly results.

For many motorists headed here from Southern California, the obvious scratch is to gun the engine down that impossibly long incline on Interstate 15 across the Nevada border into Primm, adrenaline pumping, answering Sin City's dizzying siren call.

After hours of endless desert straightaways, the garish lights of Primm are just a taste of the Strip, which shimmers just over the next ocher-colored mountain or two.

Once in Nevada, the two-lane highway spills into four lanes. For all too many motorists, the odometer spins: 80 mph quickly becomes 90, then 100 and faster. Along the 26 miles between Primm and the southernmost tip of the Strip, many vehicles hit the radar at triple-digit velocity. The average speed for vehicles pulled over is 95 mph, 25 mph over the posted limit.

A Lamborghini was clocked a few years back going 187 mph. The trooper who issued the ticket keeps a framed copy in his office."

 Read more: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-las-vegas-speeding-20130802,0,4139129.story

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Wednesday, January 18, 2012

The Great War of the Californias : Sandow Birk

The Great War of the Californias : Sandow Birk:

"In Smog and Thunder: The Great War of the Californias http://www.sandowbirk.com/paintings/the-great-war-of-the-californias/

A series of artworks depicting an imaginary war between San Francisco and Los Angeles, incorporating more than 120 artworks, including paintings, drawings, prints, faux war posters, maps, diagrams, models, and video documentary.

The project was exhibited at the Laguna Art Museum in Southern California in 2000,
and at the Sonoma Art Museum in Northern California in 2001.

A 45 min. documentary film about the war, inspired by Ken Burns' PBS series "The Civil War", was completed in 2001 and is now available. It was directed by Sean Meredith and made in collaboration with Paul Zaloom."

Sunday, July 03, 2011

Southern California Pushes for Secession

Southern California Pushes for Secession
(LOS ANGELES) — A new push to divide the Golden State in two could make Southern California the 51st state. “Our state legislature that is supposed to be making laws and being respected, imposes laws that aren’t even lawful,” Riverside County Supervisor Jeff Stone told Los Angeles ABC station KABC-TV. “So I think our state is California gone wild.” Stone is proposing that 13 Southern California counties secede from the state, dividing California into a north and south region. Continue  -»


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Monday, October 18, 2010

Sacramento Bee: Endorsements for a pivotal Nov. 2 ballot

TODAY IN OPINION Sacramento Bee: Endorsements for a pivotal Nov. 2 ballot

The Sacramento Bee believes that an informed electorate is the bedrock of a sturdy democracy. Endorsements are one of many sources of information voters can use in making their decisions. That's why The Bee's editorial board offers recommendations in competitive races. Below are our endorsements to date for the Nov. 2 election. - Read More

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Friday, June 11, 2010

Times Jumps on Fiorina's 'Classic Campaign Gaffe' That 'Could Haunt Her Throughout the Campaign'

Times Jumps on Fiorina's 'Classic Campaign Gaffe' That 'Could Haunt Her Throughout the Campaign'

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Times Jumps on Fiorina's 'Classic Campaign Gaffe' That 'Could Haunt Her Throughout the Campaign'
Jennifer Steinhauer does her best to pump up into a scandal an open-mic gaffe by California Republican Senate primary winner Carly Fiorina.

The Times Devotes Another Full Story to Latest Micro-Protest Against Illegal Immigration Crackdown
The Times can't get enough of these tiny protests in support of amnesty for illegal immigrants, while giving cursory coverage to far larger conservative protests like the Tea Party rally on Capitol Hill last September.




Times Jumps on Fiorina's 'Classic Campaign Gaffe' That 'Could Haunt Her Throughout the Campaign'

The Times' Jennifer Steinhauer jumped on Carly Fiorina for a gaffe she made to an open microphone the day after winning California's Republican primary for the U.S. Senate race against Sen. Barbara Boxer: “An Early Campaign Gaffe Makes a Non-Issue Big.”

The Times played a double game, admitting the pittance of the issue while simultaneously using it as a club against Fiorina's November prospects.

You can parse a voting record. Flip-flops -- political ones -- are fair game. But don’t talk about a woman’s hair.

In one of those classic campaign gaffes, Carly Fiorina, the Republican nominee for the Senate seat held by Barbara Boxer, the California Democrat, was caught mocking Ms. Boxer’s hair into an open microphone on Wednesday. She also had a few tough words about the newly minted Republican candidate for governor and her B.F.F.-on-the-stump, Meg Whitman.

Ms. Fiorina’s comments were, all told, really no more incendiary than a bit of warm pasta salad -- who hasn’t indulged in some off-the-record chitchat about the grooming habits of others now and then? But they presented her with a political problem that could haunt her throughout the campaign.

Only if the Times makes a big deal out of it -- like Steinhauer did in her Friday story, using the incident as a metaphor for campaign criticisms of Fiorina:

They both inform and confirm the image from her days as chief executive at Hewlett-Packard that she is tart and unpleasant. And they open the entire campaign to perceptions, however tired or unfair, that women can be dragged down the road of pettiness, perceptions that detract from the serious and pressing issues of the day.

Steinhauer, who, as Times Watch documented yesterday, labeled Republican Senate primary winner Sharron Angle of Nevada a “far-right conservative,” pumped the story into a scandal for Fiorina, even referencing a supposedly “vicious” ad by Fiorina:

....after commentary on the passion for hamburgers shared by her husband and male staff members, Ms. Fiorina somehow pivoted to the locks of her Democratic opponent.
“Laura saw Barbara Boxer briefly on television this morning and said what everyone says, ‘God, what is that hair?’ Soooooooo yesterday,” Ms. Fiorina said, scrolling, scrolling.

Even in the age of uncivil talk-show discourse and vicious campaign advertisements -- Ms. Fiorina’s campaign constructed one that depicted her primary opponent as a possessed sheep -- physical appearance, especially hair, is a place most candidates and their staff are careful not to go.

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The Times Devotes Another Full Story to Latest Micro-Protest Against Illegal Immigration Crackdown

Want to get your protest covered in the Times? As long as you're pushing a politically correct cause, you don't need many actual protesters.

Reporter Abby Goodnough hyped a tiny protest of illegal immigrant students in Friday's “Surprising Immigration Crackdown Advances.” The "surprise" is that the true blue state of Massachusetts is pondering a crackdown on illegal immigration in the wake of Arizona's new law.

The Times can't get enough of these tiny protests in support of amnesty for illegal immigrants. The paper has previously devoted two full stories to a couple of protests involving four and five students. The paper provided a similar amount of coverage to far, far larger conservative protests like the Tea Party rally on Capitol Hill last September, which drew well over 100,000.

Lawmakers were tangled in budget talks inside the Massachusetts Statehouse this week, but a 19-year-old college student spent even more time at the gold-domed building on Beacon Hill.

Andres Del Castillo, who just finished his freshman year at Suffolk University in Boston, is holding a vigil on the Statehouse steps to protest what could be the state’s harshest crackdown on illegal immigrants in decades. The plan, already approved by the Senate, must survive budget negotiations with the House to become law.

Over a photo showing perhaps a dozen students huddled outside the Massachusetts Statehouse in Boston (which is apparently a huge turnout as these things go), Goodnough suggested conservative talk show hosts were fostering some of the sentiment:

And while Arizona’s tough new immigration policy seemed largely irrelevant here when it passed in April -- both legislative chambers are controlled by Democrats who typically pay scant attention to the issue, and Bill O’Reilly of Fox News has derided Massachusetts as a “sanctuary state” for illegal immigrants -- ripple effects hit almost immediately.

Goodnough acknowledged the popularity of immigration crackdowns even in liberal Massachusetts.

By the time the Senate moved to tighten restrictions on illegal immigrants last month, a Suffolk University/7 News poll had bolstered the position of Republican lawmakers like Representative Jeffrey Perry, who is running for Congress on a platform of curbing illegal immigration. The poll of 500 registered Massachusetts voters found that more than half supported the Arizona law.

Goodnough heralded the "small group" of brave students that somehow managed to earn a full story in the nation's most influential newspaper:

“We never expected to have to be on the lookout for something like this in Massachusetts,” said Mr. Del Castillo, who has barely left the Statehouse since Sunday and said he would stay until the Senate withdrew its legislation. “It’s creating anti-immigrant sentiment within our communities, our schools and our work environments.”

Mr. Del Castillo and a small group of others conducting the vigil are especially concerned with a provision that would codify into law an existing policy that bars illegal immigrants from qualifying for resident tuition rates at state colleges. Most of them are students themselves, and their group, the Student Immigrant Movement, has also rallied for federal legislation that would allow illegal immigrants who arrived here before they turned 15 to apply for legal residency.

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Jose Palma, 22, said he felt obliged to camp out at the Statehouse and buttonhole passers-by about the crackdown to dispel a perception that it would only strengthen existing rules.

“It’s not just reinforcing what already exists,” said Mr. Palma, who left El Salvador in 1998 and has temporary protected status. “That’s why some of us are sacrificing to be here 24/7 -- because we want everybody to understand what it is.”

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Sunday, May 23, 2010

NPR: Plummeting Marijuana Prices Create A Panic In Calif.

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Legal pot, under the guise of the California's medical marijuana laws, has spurred a rush of new competition. As a result, the wholesale price of pot grown in California is plunging, worrying growers and dealers. "There's a tremendous amount of concern, borderlining on fear," says a former underground grower who now cultivates medical marijuana.

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Friday, October 30, 2009

Best Veto ever

Best Veto ever

October 30, 2009

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“Real? Schwarzenegger Letter to Assembly Spells Out…” http://minx.cc/?post=294087

Hat Tip: @kevindayhoff RT @pillageidiot Best. Veto. Ever. (If true.) http://is.gd/4F6Zv

A commenter on “Ace of Spades HQ” calls to our attention: http://gov.ca.gov/pdf/press/2009bills/AB1176_Ammiano_Veto_Message.pdf http://tinyurl.com/yk73yjh

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