Commentary and stories from the towns, farms, and ranches of the modern West
We all know water is a big problem in California. It becomes very complex - but the root of the problem is simple: most of the water in California falls on the northwestern third of the state, and the vast majority of the people and agriculture are far away. There are no natural delivery …
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Every business person in California is painfully aware of the cost of doing business in such a highly regulated state, and the appearance that some state agencies have a strong bias against agriculture just adds to the pain. This last year, the state made things even worse when they added a slew of costly new …
The state is once again being consumed by fire, with lives lost, billions of dollars in damage, and hundreds of millions of dollars spent to keep all those firefighters risking their lives on the fireline. We hear all the shock and surprise as more than a thousand homes in the city of Redding burns, …
There’s yet another group that wants to split up California. Their idea is gaining traction, and enough people signed a statewide petition to get the measure on the November ballot. This isn’t the only effort to split the state. In fact, the man behind this particular campaign tried to do this before, back …
California has done it again: A judge there bowed to the fake science of environmental groups and has ordered the state to stop spraying pesticides on public lands. According to an article in the LA Times, the ruling throws “a substantial hurdle in front of efforts by the state Department of Food and Agriculture to …
