Investigation-January, 2012Water Wars Flood L.A. Central BasinSunday, January 29th, 2012 JAN. 30, 2012 By WAYNE LUSVARDI Remember “Chinatown,” the murky 1974 movie about the water wars in the Los Angeles Basin in the 1930s, starring Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway? A January 18 California appeals court water rights case is reminiscent of the multilayered plots and subplots ... Bureaucracy Could Jack Up Water RatesMonday, January 23rd, 2012 JAN. 23, 2012 By WAYNE LUSVARDI Are babies being damaged by too much perchlorate in the water? Should the amount be reduced by a mouthful of a bureaucracy, the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, part of the California Environmental Protection Agency? New regulations could co... Bureaucratic Octopus Grabs Bay AreaMonday, January 16th, 2012 JAN. 16, 2012 By DAVE ROBERTS Like a giant octopus grabbing helpless humans in a horror movie, a new bureaucracy is squeezing the Bay Area. One Bay Area is a plan to push Bay Area residents out of their cars and jam them into pack-and-stack high rises in the coming decades. The goal: cut gr... Dogfight Over New 26th House DistrictSunday, January 8th, 2012 JAN. 8, 2012 By JOHN HRABE California's 2012 redistricting already is shaking up state and even federal politics. The candidates' dogfight for the new 26th congressional district could determine whether Democrats or Republicans control the U.S. House of Representatives after the Nove... California Faces Decisive 2012Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012 BY JOHN SEILER JAN. 4, 2012 It's fun to gloat about our great weather when calling freezing relatives Back East on New Year's Day. And some good things are keeping the sun shining this year. Silicon Valley's global technology dominance will continue in 2012. Despite the foolishness of the s... |