North County Times
Editorial: NCT Roses and Raspberries
The 'Snout in the Trough' award
A raspberry
to the city of Carlsbad for its attempt to use the proposed $1 trillion
federal economic stimulus to build a skate park.
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North County Times
Letter to the Editor: OK, who caused global warming?
Who caused the
global warming that melted the glacier that carved out the Yosemite Valley?
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San Diego Union-Tribune
Skittish residents still recovering after floods
By: Janine Zuniga
TIJUANA RIVER
VALLEY — Tijuana River Valley folks are slowly recovering from mid-December
storms that flooded their land, killing four horses and nearly a dozen
goats. And as they dry out, they are nervous about the future.
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San Diego Union-Tribune
State's budget ax threatens corps
Conservation agency may go to local hands
By: Mike Gardner
SACRAMENTO —
For 33 years, the California Conservation Corps has been called upon to
help fight fires and floods – all the while turning many young lives
around.
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Mojave Daily News
Cleaning the Colorado
By: Heather Smathers
BULLHEAD CITY
- The mighty Colorado River looked more like a stream Saturday morning,
as the water flow was slowed for the inaugural Colorado River Cleanup.
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Los Angeles Times
Federal wilderness protection for California land moves
forward
The Senate clears the way for passage of legislation that would expand
wilderness protection to more than 2 million acres of public land nationwide,
mostly in California and the West.
By: Richard Simon
Reporting from Washington
-- Large swaths of California wild lands would gain federal wilderness
protection under legislation that took a step toward approval in the U.S.
Senate during a rare Sunday session.
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Contra Costa Times
Water crisis has parallels with financial meltdown
By: Mike Taugher
To understand
how California reached its current water crisis, one could look for an
analogy in the financial meltdown.
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TheWIP.net
California’s Fight for Water
By: Jennifer I. Fenton
Unlike many
modern cities and towns across the United States, the town of Bishop,
California bursts in failed attempts to sprawl across the landscape that
surrounds it.
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Associated Press
Conservation team scours streets for water
wasters
By: Noaki Schwartz
LOS
ANGELES — The green thumbs who keep lawns lush and flora flourishing
in the city have found a new foe among the aphids, white flies and other
yard pests — the water police.
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