Letter sent via email to California State Senator Mark DeSaulnier (7th District) regarding SB375 and SB1, July 17, 2013: Senator DeSaulnier, As co-author of both of these horrendous bills you should be ashamed of yourself. Why are you attacking suburban and rural private property owners? Why are you pushing for unelected, unaccountable regional bodies to dictate […]
Action Alert! Stop SB 1 — Eminent Domain Abuse and Bond Debt Without Voter Approval
California Senate Bill 1 (SB 1): Sustainable Communities Investment Authority Summary of SB 1 If Steinberg’s SB 1 (Steinberg’s Sustainable Communities Investment Authority) becomes law, what will the cost be to you and each and everyone of us who own private property parcels? I believe this is one of the most dangerous bills and will be […]
Boy Scouts of America to Require Sustainability Merit Badge
Excerpt: The Boy Scouts of America said in a statement to The Daily Caller News Foundation: “In an effort to reflect a better balance of the needs of youth and our nation today and in the future, Sustainability, a new merit badge, will join Environmental Science as an Eagle Scout option after its debut at […]
Why I Am Against the Common Core Standards
You hand Johnny his packed lunch, give him a kiss, and smile as you see him run off to school. Once in the classroom, his teacher tells him that today is the big day to take the state test for Common Core. Johnny sits down in front of a computer and avails himself to the “four […]
Restructure US Government to Make “Huge” Green Changes in America, Study Proposes
Excerpt: One of the major impediments, the study says, is created by America’s “basic framework of government, established by law,” which is “one of separated and dispersed authority,” in which “government agencies at all levels — federal, state, local, tribal and even international — can only do what they have been authorized to do by […]
Committee for a New Ashtabula Still has Shot at Changing County Government
Is the proposed Ashtabula County, Ohio charter government an Agenda 21 Trojan Horse? “The citizens of Ashtabula County will make that decision November 5th when they decide “FOR” or “AGAINST” the proposed County Charter Government.… We can only hope that the citizens of Ashtabula County read everything closely and ask a lot of questions before […]
New Jersey City Council Tries to Use Eminent Domain on Property Owners, Gets Swept Out of Office
Sometimes you can beat City Hall. Michael Monaghan has wanted to develop his property on Main Street in Hackensack, New Jersey, just a few miles away from Manhattan. Yet the city twice denied two applications for banks to build on his land.
How Your Local Officials Are Using Stealth to Implement Agenda 21 and ICLEI
How your local officials are using stealth to put Agenda 21 and ICLEI into every city, town and county in America. We all know that politicians play fast and loose with the truth — when running for office to get our vote, once they get into office in order to stay there — whenever it […]