Yasha Levine, AlterNet. November 19, 2009. A group of water oligarchs engineered a disastrous privatization scheme to make a fortune out of California's most precious natural resource.
Peter Gleick, Pacific Institute. November 18, 2009. Despite the happy face being put on by some of the bill's supporters, including Governor Schwarzenegger, I doubt anyone is truly happy with the end result.
John Nichols, TheNation.com AlterNet: PEEK. November 17, 2009. "End the U.S. Occupation and Air War in Afghanistan" is the title of a resolution endorsed over by the 300-member executive board of the California party.
Peter Gleick, Pacific Institute. November 4, 2009. We must stop pretending that water is free and unlimited, available to anyone who can put a siphon in a river or drill another groundwater well.
Dan Bacher, AlterNet. October 30, 2009. Today environmental groups from around California weighed in with their opposition to the dangerous proposed water legislation.
Dan Bacher, AlterNet. October 9, 2009. Schwarzenegger said he wants a water bill package including a peripheral canal and dams on his desk by Friday night before he will act on 700 bills awaiting his signature.
Lori Pottinger, Huffington Post. October 7, 2009. The world has long looked to California's massively engineered water system as "advanced" and worth emulating. It may be time to rethink that.
Liliana Segura, AlterNet. September 24, 2009. A hot new iPhone App uses GPS technology to track registered sex offenders everywhere. Are they keeping you safe, or profiting off paranoia?
Matthew McDermott, TreeHugger. September 14, 2009. Schwarzenegger's solution -- he supports the higher renewable energy goal in principle -- is to mandate the change through executive order.
Peter Gleick, Pacific Institute. September 9, 2009. The Bureau or Rec's new report actually shows the project is a bad idea, will create far fewer benefits than costs, and will be an ecological, recreational and economic failure.
Suzanne Ito, Blog of Rights AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. September 7, 2009. Cameron Todd Willingham's last words were: "I have been persecuted 12 years for something I didn't do."
Peter Gleick, Pacific Institute. August 27, 2009. Exaggerating the role that water plays in unemployment will do little to improve farm jobs and much to hurt rational water policy in the region.
Isaac-Davy Aronson, The Faster Times. August 17, 2009. A recent riot at the California Institution for Men left 175 prisoners injured and 1,600 with nowhere to go. How did it get this bad?
Peter Gleick, Pacific Institute. August 12, 2009. I would urge that California's water warriors hold their opinions until they actually read and digest these bills.
Sasha Abramsky, Comment Is Free. August 8, 2009. For years, California has prioritized incarceration over all other social investments. Now it's being forced to release 40,000 prisoners in two years.
Byard Duncan, AlterNet. August 8, 2009. Religious communities don't have to be the enemy of gay rights -- in fact, as some are showing, they can help swing votes for equality.
Melinda Burns, Miller-McCune.com. August 3, 2009. The state has got a plan to cut water use 20 percent by 2020. Is it realistic? And will rate increases spur revolt?
Peter Gleick, Pacific Institute. July 27, 2009. The Pacific Institute show how California's agricultural sector can flourish despite threats to water supply.
Agence France Presse July 24, 2009. Bodies left unclaimed, cadavers stacked high in morgues and burial rates tumbling as loved ones cut funeral costs: the crippling recession is even haunting the dead across the United States.
Agence France Presse July 22, 2009. The governor is under fire for a budget plan announced this week that will see 15 billion dollars in spending cuts from services such as education and health care.
