Sunday, July 21, 2019

The Ten Policy Solutions in the New Mark Arax Book

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I just finished the big book (The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water and Dust Across California) yesterday. And what a book it is, in size (528 page...
Saturday, June 22, 2019

Governor Newsom: Time to enforce the law

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It's the wild west out there. It feels like no one is protecting the health, safety, and welfare of Californians. Governor Newsom'...
Saturday, May 11, 2019

Rime Ice Rivers: How many ways can water flow down a mountain?

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Two years ago, I joined a couple of friends on a climbing trip to Mount Shasta. We failed to summit due to high early morning winds, and tur...
Friday, March 8, 2019

125 years ago L.A.'s first outfall sewer system was completed

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125 years ago, on March 9, 1894, the City of Los Angeles opened its "great drain," according to the March 10, 1894 Los Angeles Her...
Sunday, February 24, 2019

We don't need a Green New Deal. What we need is World War III on carbon.

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The term "Green New Deal" invokes images of a U.S.-only social welfare and jobs program. Entitlements to those who didn't get ...
Thursday, January 17, 2019

January 6th and 16th storms compared

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The weekend of January 5-6, 2019 was a very wet one, and San Geronimo Creek reached 1,000 cfs for the first time since February 2017. 2018...
Tuesday, December 11, 2018

Shadows of Rain

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We have all heard of "rain shadows," where precipitation declines "precipitously" in the lee of a mountain range. Califo...