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Taking the water could cost the state

December 24, 2016 mdunbar831

Lots of angry words were billowing about during the momentous state water board hearings in Stockton, Merced and Modesto. There…

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Our View: If the state carries out its plan, our region will suffer

December 19, 2016 mdunbar831

Is the state coming to tear down the arch, or just extinguish some of its lights? For more than 100…

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Would Times like some facts with that Kool-Aid?

December 2, 2016 mdunbar831

In reading a recent editorial in the Los Angeles Times, we just about choked on our Cheerios. One of our…

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Economics of state’s water grab don’t add up

November 21, 2016 mdunbar831

Les Grober, deputy director of the State Water Resources Control Board, said his agency had done “more than was required”…

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Who will go extinct first, salmon or Valley farmers?

October 1, 2016 mdunbar831

Here, on the front lines of the state’s recently declared water war, we have more questions than ammunition. Is the…

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Day of Reckoning for Our Rivers

September 10, 2016 mdunbar831

When even the sanest, calmest, most optimistic people in the room are ready to stop talking and start fighting, it’s…

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After releasing water for steelhead, not enough left for trout

August 20, 2016 mdunbar831

The equation “more water equals more fish” has been pushed as an unequivocal truth by the environmental community and their…

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Don’t try to fool us with bubbles and glimmer

June 24, 2016 mdunbar831

The judge who sank the state’s concept (it’s too vague to call it a “plan”) to save the Delta wanted…

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More storage, political consensus key to solving water woes

April 15, 2016 mdunbar831

Farmers who depend on the Central Valley Project are angry over how much water they’re not going to get this…

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Is water wasted if we’ve got nowhere to keep it?

April 1, 2016 mdunbar831

Tired of playing the water-saving game – shorter showers, browner grass, dirtier cars? Me, too. So let’s join those playing…

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