Bob Morris on May 22, 2011, 6:50 am In addition to installing 1-gigabit-per-second broadband in Kansas City, Kansas, Google is teaming with Kansas City Power & Light to expand the service across the state and to Kansas City, Missouri. Google is also investing in a project to build 350 miles of transmission line off the Atlantic from Virginia to New Jersey to [...] Bob Morris on May 21, 2011, 11:19 pm Bob Morris on May 21, 2011, 6:10 pm PG&E fought against it, but Marin Clean Energy in California prevailed and now residents there can choose renewable energy via Community Choice Aggregation. Under Community Choice Aggregation (CCA), communities can choose what type of power they want with distribution left to the big utilities. It recently received a huge boost from the state legislature [...] Bob Morris on May 21, 2011, 1:45 pm The Salt Lake City Tribune says no, as does The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the Sierra Club. Southern Nevada Water Authority chief Pat Mulroy is known for hardball tactics in her desperate attempts to grab / steal water from wherever possible for a city in the desert with little water [...] Bob Morris on May 21, 2011, 9:45 am From Randy Miller at the Utah League of Independent Voters Bob Morris on May 21, 2011, 6:15 am Wood may be a renewable energy source but a recent study in Massachusetts concluded that large scale wood-powered electricity plants would create more GHGs by 2050 than coal. New proposed regulations would mean stricter emissions controls for such power plants before they could earn renewable energy credits. “Wood is problematic because it takes so [...] Bob Morris on May 21, 2011, 12:01 am Blondie Vs. The Doors – Rapture Riders Bob Morris on May 20, 2011, 8:10 pm Coffee may reduce risk of lethal prostate cancer in men Bob Morris on May 20, 2011, 3:20 pm LA Times In another example of the paralysis that is the apparent natural state of California politics, the Supreme Court will probably rule in June that the state must release at least 35,000 prison inmates due to severe prison overcrowding, which results in substandard health care. Goodness, you say, surely this problem must have [...] Bob Morris on May 20, 2011, 10:45 am Greece may default, Ireland can’t sell more debt, Spain may fess up to hiding debt. Norway has frozen loans to Greece. Protests against banks are spreading. The banksters may no longer be able to force countries to pay for bonds that banks knew were dicey and never should have bought in the first place. [...] | Independent Voter NetworkArticles by Bob Morris on California and Arizona renewable energy, budget and border issues |
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