Investigative Reports
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OCT. 13, 2011
By WAYNE LUSVARDI
Electricity: the peril the wind sings to in the wires on a gray day.
-- novelist Janet Frame
Windmill-Gate is blowing across the trendy new resource of wind-generated electricity. New new studies look at “cycling”: the ramping up and down of gas power plants...
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OCT. 7, 2011
By DAVE ROBERTS
The battle over water softeners is boiling over in California. On the one side is the water-softener industry. It's joined by homeowners and businesses whose municipal water suppliers deliver them "hard" water -- which has high concentrations of corrosive minerals...
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SEPT. 26, 2011
By KATY GRIMES
Many in the state say that Gov. Jerry Brown has demonstrated a propensity for doing things his way, even if it means bucking his own party. But what Brown really has shown a gift for is expanding government.
Faced with 600 potential new laws sent to him in ...
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SEPT. 19, 2011
By WAYNE LUSVARDI
On Sept. 16, U.S. District Court Judge Oliver Wanger threw the Delta smelt minnow back into the waters of the Sacramento Delta.
He ruled the federal government’s case was too small to grant a stay -- a court-ordered continuation -- of the man-made “X2’...
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