The California High Speed Rail project is reconsidering the Grapevine Pass route for the railroad system connecting San Francisco and Los Angeles. This must have been a bombshell for the folks around the board room table at the Tejon Ranch Corporation. What will...
Don’t think too much and you can blame the Delta Smelt for causing the agricultural water shortage in the Central Valley. But farmers are pretty smart people. They know who they’re up against, even if the Delta Smelt makes good headlines for Sarah Palin....
Hondo Chemicals in Bakersfield had to set itself on fire with chemical plumes soaring into the night sky to ignite action to clean up what’s been called “an unauthorized dump” on Stockdale Highway in Bakersfield. Since 2007 Hondo Chemicals has been...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) first registered methyl iodide as a pesticide in October 2007, despite a letter from more than 50 scientists, including five Nobel Laureates. National approval came at the end of the term of Bush’s EPA appointee....
Unless you’re a real mystery buff, it’s most likely you’ve never been to a mystery writers conference. I’d like to tell you about the Left Coast Crime Conference I recently attended. There are many of these conferences, the biggest of them...
Kettleman City residents, especially those families touched by the tragedy of a child born with a birth defect, feel betrayed by health officials who failed to point the smoking gun at the single cause that brings such anxiety and misery to the natural and joyful...
The Future Interstate Highway Network? I’m just back from a two-week trip in a rented RV with my dog Lily to attend a murder mystery convention called Left Coast Crime in Santa Fe. Lot of driving. The Interstate highway network was a massive public works project...
It’s good news that Boral Roofing in Stockton is manufacturing smog-eating tiles. I browsed around their website, tried out their energy calculator and learned that in California I could save $459.31 yearly using these regular roofing tiles with a coating of...
I’m sure it must cheer Kettleman City families that Kings County has been given $158, 000 to develop a program to improve birth outcomes using grant money from the company that runs the hazardous waste dump three miles out of town. Houston-based Waste...
A California Environmental Protection Agency and California Department of Public Health report has exonerated pesticides and herbicides, the contaminated water, fumes from diesel trucks, and most of all the huge solid waste disposal facility just outside town from...
