Wayne Lusvardi, Author at California Globe

A Massive Failure to Triage in California and New York

March 30, 2020 8:09 amMarch 30, 2020 10:29 am

There has been a massive, seemingly intended, failure to triage the coronavirus response and make everyone suffer, in emergency health policy in California and New York, for localized, not statewide, outbreaks of coronavirus. Seasonal flu deaths are running at about...

CA Rep. Josh Harder supports another Democrat waterless water storage bill

March 21, 2020 2:20 amMarch 20, 2020 4:31 pm

HR 2473 is not targeted to benefit farmers but to provide public goods to constituencies of the Democrat Party: environmentalists, Indian tribes, scientists, fishing interests, rural immigrant enclaves with no water systems On March 11, 2020, Congressman Josh Harder...

Could Gov. Newsom’s Panicky Quarantine Trigger Virus Among Homeless?

March 20, 2020 6:56 amMarch 20, 2020 8:26 am

Most people do not form opinions by reasoning; they catch them by social contagion. In the case of the recent murky events surrounding the unnecessary and unilateral state and local government shutdowns of schools and businesses purportedly to prevent spread...

Gov. Newsom Reappoints Green Power CEO to CA Grid Operator Board

March 10, 2020 3:03 pmMarch 10, 2020 3:17 pm

Gov. Newsom recently re-appointed Angelina Galiteva to the Board of Governors of the California power grid operator – Independent System Operator (Cal-ISO) – even though she is CEO of a solar systems company and advocates “the end of cheap energy.” ...

GOP Uses Obama Law to Fund Dams Barred By State Water Bond

March 9, 2020 2:12 amMarch 9, 2020 7:32 am

The 2014 California Water Bond mainly benefits constituents of the Democrat Party, such as environmentalists, scientists, commercial fishermen, Indian tribes and Bay-Delta farmers to the exclusion of Central Valley farmers and towns for which the federal Central Valley Project was...

Rooftop solar monopoly

March 2, 2020 6:31 amMarch 2, 2020 6:59 am

Now that the rooftop mandate for new homes has been relaxed to allow communities to choose cheaper power from municipal solar farms, will new homeowners be allowed to choose cheaper and cleaner conventional energy sources through local Community Choice energy?...

Kern County Water Districts and White Lands – Kern County Water Agency

February 27, 2020 11:22 amFebruary 28, 2020 7:43 am

A controversial aspect of new California groundwater regulation is the unofficial collaboration of the Environmental Defense Fund to structure water markets that previously failed; and circular buy-outs of farmlands funded with high water rates paid by the same farmers whose...