Topic: California
Cash-strapped farmers in California's agricultural heartland and environmentalists at odds over water rights and wildlife protections finally agree on something: that thousands of acres of cracked, salty farmland is the perfect site for a sprawling utility-scale solar farm. The 47 square-miles of land proposed ...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The California governor's race is on track to be the most expensive nonpresidential election in U.S. history, sparking a debate over money and influence that could become the campaign's defining issue. Republican front-runner Meg Whitman, the billionaire former CEO of online auction house eBay Inc, will likely face off in November against Democrat Jerry ...
Open government in the heart of Silicon Valley is starting to mean turn off, tune out, power down. When the San Jose City Council meets just miles from the Apple and Google campuses, its members shut down all portable electronic ...
