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Here is Logue debating Fran Pavley on L.A. Public Radio.
Guests:
Dan Logue, California Assemblyman, representing counties in the 3rd Assembly District, including Butte, Lassen, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, Sierra and Yuba
Senator Fran Pavley, representing Senate District 23 - including portions of Los Angeles and Ventura Counties in the California Legislature
Jake Early makes amazing art. I got this e-mail from him this week (below). He announced his latest pieces. They are selling fast.
You should get them while you can. Some of the pieces I bought back in the day for $200 bucks are now circulating for $700 - $1200 dollars. Not that I would ever sell any of mine, but it does reflect the unique quality of Early's work.
Jake Early art is really Chico thing. Part of what makes people from Gridley who move to Chico feel like they are hip and cool and trendy. Like me.
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Since my last message, I have actually finished 3 new pieces in my Highway 1 Series of original serigraphs. Below, you can see all 3 of the newest prints, The Lost Coast, Malibu & San Francisco (images 13, 14 & 15 in the series of 20). Digital versions of all my serigraphs may be viewed on my website, http://www.jakeearly.com/view.php?gallery_id=10
I've long been intrigued by boats (particularly their design and construction) and especially boats without engines. The combination of delicate, graceful design and the ability to capture the power of the wind is very interesting to me. I don't consider myself a sailor, in fact, I doubt I could even raise the sails to get a boat off the dock. However, I've built a number of wooden dinghys and kayaks and I've been a "crew member" on sailboats in the Mediterranean, San Francisco Bay, Santa Barbara Channel and many northern California lakes. My brother-in-law has been sailing in San Francisco a lot recently, and his adventures navigating the cold, tricky waters of the bay inspired me to create this piece.
To the Worthy Officers and Soldiers in the American Army
Honour will crown every defender of liberty.
GENTLEMEN: Your exertions in the cause of freedom, guided by wisdom, and animated by zeal and courage, have gained you the love and confidence of your grateful countrymen; and they look to you, who are experienced veterans, and trust that you will still be the guardians of America.
As I have the honour to be an American, and one among the free millions who are defended by your valour, I would pay the tribute of thanks, and express my gratitude, while I solicit you to continue in your present honourable and important station. I doubt not America will always find enough of her sons ready to flock to her standard and support her freedom: but experience proves that experienced soldiers are more capable of performing the duties of the camp, and better qualified to face the enemy, than others; and, therefore, every friend to America will be desirous that most of the gentlemen who compose the present Army may continue in the service of their Country until liberty,peace, and safety, are established.
Although your private concerns may call for your assistance at home, yet the voice of your Country is still louder; and it is painful, to heroick minds, to quit the field when liberty calls, and the voice of injured millions cries, to arms! to arms! Never was a cause more important or glorious than that which you are engaged in. Not only your wives, your children, and distant posterity, but humanity at large, the world of mankind, are interested in it; for if tyranny should prevail in this great Country, we may expect liberty will expire through the world; therefore, more human glory and happiness may depend upon your exertions than ever yet depended upon any of the sons of men!
He that is a soldier, in defence of such a cause, needs no title. His post is a post of honour; and although not an Emperor, yet he shall wear a crown of glory, and blessed will be his memory!
The savage and brutal barbarity of our enemies, in burning Falmouth, is a full demonstration that there is not the least remains of virtue, wisdom, or humanity, in the British Court, and that they are fully determined, with fire and sword, to butcher and destroy, beggar and enslave, the whole American people.
Therefore, we expect soon to break off all kind of connection with Britain, and form into a grand Republick of the American United Colonies; which will, by the blessing of Heaven, soon work out our salvation, and perpetuate the liberties, increase the wealth, the power, and the glory, of this western world. Notwithstanding the many difficulties we have to encounter, and the rage of our merciless enemies, we have a glorious prospect before us, big with every thing good and great.
The further we enter into the field of independence, our prospect will expand and brighten, and a complete Republick will soon complete our happiness. "Blindness seems to have happened to Britain, that the fullness of America might come in;" and we have every encouragement to "stand fast in the liberties wherewith Heaven has made us free." Persevere, ye guardians of liberty! May success be your constant attendant until the enemies of freedom are no more; and all future generations, as they successively tread the stage of time, and taste the joys of liberty, will rise up and call you blessed.
A FREEMAN. - Cambridge, November 24, 1775.
Clearly the editors of the major local Chico newspaper have been reading my blog before they write editorials. I must admit the writing style is much more insightful and mature than mine, but the editorial about the Winco - Wal-Mart double standard is a great read.
Click here to read their version of my recent blog post.
I have succumbed to the advertising campaign of
They have a new series of ads that explain that they have listened to people who said that their pizza is no good.
They even go to the homes of people who wrote in and complained and give them a new pizza to try.
So I went today and tried the new pizza. It really is different and it is good.
For those of you following the state Senate election that is occurring here in Northern California in June, I thought I might ask one question that no one seems to be asking.
Will Doug LaMalfa write the check?
The first time Doug ran for the legislature he wrote a big check. It helped him get elected.
If you look at the campaign finance statements it looks like Rick Keene has twice as much money to get his message out to voters than Doug LaMalfa does. If you add in the fact that much of the money on one side of it (LaMalfa's) is restricted to use in the General election in November, it puts the other side (Keene) even farther ahead.
One of the leading indicators of who wins elections is who has the most support. So as the clock ticks down many observers ask the key question:
Will Doug LaMalfa write the check?
The City Council has lit the fuse with many in the community by approving an expansion of a grocery store after stopping the expansion of a grocery store.
I know the local liberal weekly has asked us to all move on and focus on other issues, but what other issues are there in this economy.
There is one ISSUE THE ECONOMY and people want to spend less, and see their family members going to work everyday. So... a lot of us are not in move on mode.
Last month, the City of Chico approved Winco's application to expand their E. 20th Street store and this is furthering angering Wal-Mart supporters who were mad as hell that the city council approved big box giant, Costco, but denied Wal-Mart's expansion plan - and now, Winco's expansion project has been approved with no public hearings or any of the costly demands required of Wal-Mart.
Wal-Mart opponents on the city council claim that Wal-Mart's application was narrowly rejected because it didn't meet the "new standard" for retail projects in Chico (ie solar panels and paying extortion fees as high as $1 million).
All this despite the fact that the project's energy and environmental standards were among the highest in the retail industry, exceeding local retail standards (even though the city changed them several times in the 7 year denial process).
In addition, Walmart's plan to include grocery sales was rejected by Mayor Schwab and Council Members Nickell, Greundl and Holcombe on the grounds that any new grocery sales in Chico would threaten existing grocery stores - resulting in layoffs and even store closures. This conclusion was based on Nickell's discussion with managers of other local grocery stores. Although, no word yet from Nickell on Winco's grocery expansion. Perhaps the groceries there will not put people out of work like groceries 600 yards down the street would.
According to city administrative rules, the Winco project could have been appealed to the city council. But not one of our fine elected officials raised any objections. Mayor Schwab demanded no solar panels of Winco like she so passionately demanded of Walmart, despite the looming threat of global warming.
Nor did Gruendl demand a cool $1 million to buy new wood stoves for low income residents! And Nickell did not come to the defense of other grocery stores that may be threatened by this project. Why not?
The silence is deafening. Is this because Winco's new building design has set some phenomenally new environmental standard that will be a model for future retail development in Chico? Or is it because Winco is not Wal-Mart? The answer is certain to be interesting, no matter how implausible or believable.
Sorry, this issue is not going away.
"You have a job, a government job, these people behind me, they are the private sector, and they pay my salary." - Dan Logue
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