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WOTR: The good, the bad and the ridiculous
Minneapolis :: MN :: USA | 5 months ago
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The West that you and I know and love has more than its share of crackpots and nincompoops. Jowls tremble as their latest cockamamie idea about the world curls itself around their brainstems like flesh-eating centipedes. Then, of course every two
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Debbie Croft: Weekend features two arts events
Merced :: CA :: USA | 5 months ago
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Yosemite area artists are currently preparing for two special events this weekend. Today the Yosemite Holiday Craft Bazaar is taking place from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Held in the Curry Village Dining Hall, this annual fund-raiser is sponsored by Yosemite
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Dan Walters: San Francisco's environmental hypocrisy exposed
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 5 months ago
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This became very evident a few years ago when it was suggested in a series of Bee articles, among other places that San Francisco should give up its exclusive water supply from the Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park, allowing it to be
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U.S., Mexico reach pact on Colorado River water sale
Mexico City :: Mexico | 6 months ago
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After years of sporadic negotiations, U.S. and Mexican officials Tuesday are set to sign a major agreement aimed at improving binational cooperation over the Colorado River. Under the five-year deal, regional water agencies in Southern California,
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Water main breaks in Sunset District
Francisco :: IN :: USA | 6 months ago
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A water main broke in San Francisco's Sunset District Thursday afternoon, a fire department spokeswoman said. The main break was reported shortly before 3:30 p.m. on Quintara Street between 27th and 28th avenues, fire spokeswoman Mindy Talmadge said.
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Rain, snow welcomed for state's thirsty reservoirs
Sacramento :: KY :: USA | 6 months ago
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Most of the state's major reservoirs are at below-average storage levels. California was helped this summer because those same reservoirs were filled to the top by a wet winter in the early months of 2011. Such was not the case January through March
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Judge fast-tracks water rate complaint
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 6 months ago
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A Superior Court judge has expedited the San Diego County Water Authority's challenge to the Metropolitan Water District by allowing two separate water rate lawsuits to be pursued simultaneously...Kramer said he would coordinate the agency's two
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Expenses examined as water bills double
San Diego :: CA :: USA | 6 months ago
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Team 10 examined how the regional agency that sends water to southern California spent ratepayer money over a five-month period. The findings include employee reimbursements approved despite lost receipts, thousands of dollars spent on flying an
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Hetch Hetchy measure being rejected
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 7 months ago
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With only vote-by-mail ballots counted, San Francisco voters were overwhelmingly rejecting Proposition F, a plan to take the first steps toward draining Hetch Hetchy Reservoir and drastically revamping the way much of the Bay Area gets its water.
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Prop. F seeks plan to drain Hetch Hetchy
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 7 months ago
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The century-old battle over the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir moves to the San Francisco ballot next month with a measure that could determine the future of the system that has provided the city's water since 1934. Proposition F would require the city to
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