Disaster Capitalism and the Shutdown of the San Onofre Nuclear Plant
By Michael Steinberg /Black Rain Press
This story starts with a clandestine dinner in Warsaw, Poland. Present are Michael Peevey, president of the California Public Utility Commission, and Stephen Pickett, a high ranking official with Southern California Edison, a major electrical utility. It is March 2013, the same month SCE announced the unexpected permanent shutdown of its San Onofre Nuclear Power Station. No nukers were elated. But their joy later turns to disappointment and then outrage when the CPUC subsequently hands down a decision that leaves us on the hook for billions of dollars in costs supposedly related to the shutdown of San Onofre. How did this happen, and so relatively quickly? [Read more...]
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School Board Trustee Praised, Defended and Investigated, All in a Day at San Diego Unified
Posted: 30 Sep 2015 11:18 AM PDT
By Doug Porter School Board Trustee Marnie Foster is at the center of several controversies in the San Diego Unified School District. A meeting of the trustees yesterday featured numerous TV trucks lined up outside, partisans and opponents inside, along with three distinct actions and enough drama for a cable mini-series. Documents released by the district answered many questions raised concerning the School of Creative and Performing Arts, at the center of the current controversy. Responding to charges that Trustee Foster had intervened in school affairs on behalf of her son, the district’s documents amounted to a master class in how to respond to a political controversy: hit’em [critics] hard and hit ‘em long. This situation is far from resolved, however. Also, the school board authorized an investigation into Trustee Foster’s involvement in a fundraiser on behalf of her son’s college fund and a claim filed against the district allegedly by the child’s father. And they passed a resolution praising Foster for her work promoting equity in the district. Confused yet? It is complicated, to be sure. [Read more...]
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Posted: 30 Sep 2015 07:02 AM PDT
(No Matter What our Beliefs Happen to Be)
This Kim Davis situation is just too familiar for my liking, too much like it has always been in this country based on what I've seen in 77 years. I mean I have no idea what this woman's work entails in a day. But one of her tasks seems, to me, like a dream job, where all she'd have to do is a little soft shoe with jazz hands and a big smile and sing: "Howdy do. Congratulations, you two. Here's your marriage license. Toddle-oo!" But she can only do that for "Adam and Eve." "Adam and Steve" or any woman whose honey is a she has to be insulted by her for all the world to see because of what her scripture has taught her to believe. [Read more...]
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Posted: 30 Sep 2015 07:01 AM PDT
By the Ol’ OB Hippie Does the Pope smoke dope? Does Pope Francis imbibe in the inhalation of medicinal cannabis? No, really – I wanted to know if the Pope smoked dope. I have heard rumors to that effect – for years actually. And I wanted to find out. I knew he was coming to the U.S., so I had to figure out a way to meet up with him. [Read more...]
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Posted: 30 Sep 2015 06:42 AM PDT
Disaster Capitalism and the Shutdown of the San Onofre Nuclear Plant
By Michael Steinberg /Black Rain Press This story starts with a clandestine dinner in Warsaw, Poland. Present are Michael Peevey, president of the California Public Utility Commission, and Stephen Pickett, a high ranking official with Southern California Edison, a major electrical utility. It is March 2013, the same month SCE announced the unexpected permanent shutdown of its San Onofre Nuclear Power Station. No nukers were elated. But their joy later turns to disappointment and then outrage when the CPUC subsequently hands down a decision that leaves us on the hook for billions of dollars in costs supposedly related to the shutdown of San Onofre. How did this happen, and so relatively quickly? [Read more...]
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