Posted on 05/02/2002 7:58:34 AM PDT by John Jorsett
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:40:14 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Sacramento -- Three years ago, Gov. Gray Davis vetoed legislation designed to prevent state contracting scandals like the one now involving Oracle Corp.
The Davis administration is currently faced with explaining why it signed a $95 million contract with Oracle to license database software, even though few agencies expressed an interest. In addition, taxpayers could end up paying $41 million more for software than if there had been no Oracle contract at all.
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The independent guys would probably go for this.
It is a great idea.
It's time they started explaining to their customers what this mess stands to cost them, ESPECIALLY with non-point nitrates from septic systems. They had better perk their ears if they don't want to be paying $4,000 per year for a septic tank, plus maintenance.
Santa Cruz.
Unenforceable, unmeasurable, and unattainable standards for nonpoint nitrates were the precedent under which the County intends to enforce similarly bogus standards for nonpoint silt. Santa Cruz was one of two complicit jurisdictions that instituted compliance to a court ruling on a sweetheart suit between NRDC (remember them?) and the EPA. Nonpoint silt is dirt in runoff, otherwise known as mud. Any disturbance of dirt makes mud, including none :-) They will are using an illegal interpretation of Section 303(d) of the Clean Water Act to protect "water quality" for fish. I have a long document by a Polish IUCN attorney now employed by a foundation in the US on how to do it.Its real purpose is to control land use. I have a long document by a Polish IUCN attorney now employed by a foundation in the US on how to do it. Characteristically, the consequences of the plan will be MAJOR landslides.
Nothing succeeds like failure.
It's all there (including what to do about it) in Part IV, Chapter 4, & Part V, Chapter 2 of a certain book.
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