Guess That’s Just the Way it is.

Well, score another victory for our environmentalist friends.

And, while you’re at it, go ahead and show it as another major defeat for good old fashioned commonsense. So, what else is new these days you ask. The Tranquillon Ridge Project, a proposal to allow extraction of oil leaking from state waters off the coast of Santa [...]

The Mother of All Councils

Your California Legislature appears ready to expedite passage of the Sacramento- San Joaquin Delta Reform Act of 2009.

If successful, local government entities, as well as individuals and businesses throughout the North State, should prepare themselves for serious repercussions.

Establishment of the ‘mother of all councils’ is but one of the major changes coming your way soon.

There [...]

As California Goes, So Goes the Nation

As California Goes, So Goes the Nation

There’s an old saying most of us have heard many times before . . . “As California goes, so goes the Nation.” Short and sweet, it’s intended to recognize Californians for consistently being on the cutting edge of new developments and innovations that eventually end up sweeping the rest [...]

Town Hall or Just Another Political Pep Rally?

I attended Rep. Wally Herger’s Healthcare Town Hall at Simpson University on Aug. 18. As a longstanding, committed conservative Republican, I honestly wasn’t thrilled with what I saw. Nor what I heard. Frankly, it was difficult to tell if it was a town hall or just another political pep rally without all the balloons and [...]

A foul smell is in the air over septic systems

If you re a homeowner, business owner or land developer with an existing or planned septic system, you ll be especially interested in today s column. Given our rural lifestyle here in the North State, I suspect that includes most of [...]

Service Before Self

Public service is good for America and good for the character of her citizenry.  Long ago, JFK put it so eloquently when he said,

“Ask not what your country can do for you.  Ask what you can do for your country.”

How many of us today have asked what we can do for our country?

I hazard to [...]

Hyphenated-Americans: 'Our Allegiance Must Be Purely to the United States'

I’m an American of Croatian descent. I’m not a ‘Croatian-American’, often referred to as a ‘Hyphenated-American’. Never will be. Don’t want to be. This may not seem like a big deal to some, but for me it’s pretty darn [...]