First Snow Mountain meeting a success
UPPER LAKE >> On Sept. 14 the Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service co-hosted a most interesting and engaging public meeting in Upper Lake, as the first of...
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Community Choice Aggregation: Buyer beware
Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) is a cumbersome name for a very promising new way to supply our energy needs. By “aggregating” consumer buying power to purchase electricity on the wholesale...
Letter to the Editor: The Worst Idea of 2014
On December 2 some Siskiyou County activists came to the Board of Supervisors meeting to make a well-rehearsed pitch for the creation of a proposed "State of Jefferson." Consisting of...
Letter to the Editor: Measure S innuendoes and falsehoods
When the sample ballot for the November 4 election arrived in my mailbox I was appalled to see an "Argument Against" Measure S (the initiative to protect and restore Clear...
Letter to the Editor: Please support Measure H
When I moved to Clearlake in 1981 it was obviously a diverse community, full of strong-minded people whose opinions differed about practically everything ? but everyone did seem to agree...
Tuleyome Tales: Clear Lake hitch face extinction
Last September the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) filed a petition to protect the Clear Lake hitch (lavinia exilicauda chi) under both the federal and state Endangered Species Acts. The...
Prop. 32 shamelessly deceptive
Big corporations and multimillionaire right-wing extremists are attempting to corrupt the electoral process by promoting a shamelessly deceptive ballot measure. The "Stop Special Interest Money Now Act" is touted as...
Same meeting, different impression
A letter that ran on the opinion page of the Record-Bee by Colusa County resident Ashley Indrieri genuinely bewildered me, because I attended the same meeting she did and we...
Protection promotes prosperity
Practically everyone here in Lake County knows how lucky we are to live in a region with so much natural beauty, unspoiled wildlife habitat, and varied outdoor recreational opportunities, but...
Redistricting Nightmare
The new Congressional district boundaries being proposed by California''s Redistricting Commission are turning into a nightmare for Lake County, as every change to the original draft proposal gets worse. To...
