Another of the great ones is gone. Dr. John Bryan died unexpectedly in his sleep on Easter morning. He was 68.<\/p>\n
In his younger years, John ran the Boston Marathon, surfed, and biked, gardened, and maintained and drove a racecar at Madera Speedway.<\/p>\n
He was also a devout churchman and a community servant through the Kiwanis and the Elks, the VFW and American Legion.<\/p>\n
He was a wonderful citizen and will be profoundly missed.<\/p>\n
\u2022 \u2022 \u2022<\/p>\n
If the weather forecasters are right, we\u2019ll be getting rain this weekend, and a lot of us won\u2019t complain. We are still short of rain, and every drop will be welcome.<\/p>\n
Which reminds me for the thousandth time of how much we need the added storage capacity that Temperance Flat dam would provide.<\/p>\n
The state water geniuses don\u2019t seem to agree with that, but one wonders what the heck they\u2019re drinking.<\/p>\n
As the state\u2019s population grows, the ability to capture excess rainwater becomes ever more vital.<\/p>\n
That isn\u2019t just an assertion \u2014 it\u2019s a fact.<\/p>\n
You can\u2019t grow food without water, and you can\u2019t have metropolises without water.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s see \u2014 what\u2019s California made up of? Oh, yes. Mostly farms and metropolises. And forests, which collect the water in the winter and provide runoff in the spring and summer.<\/p>\n
Without the dams we have now, only about a third of the people who live here could be here. We would look like Iraq.<\/p>\n
\u2022 \u2022 \u2022<\/p>\n
A lot of people thought that when the marijuana business became legal, we\u2019d all be rolling in dough. Well, that isn\u2019t the case.<\/p>\n
Most of the marijuana trade is still controlled by crime organizations, because they are selling it under the table to avoid taxes that the legitimate dealers have to pay, then pass along to their customers.<\/p>\n
Wasn\u2019t that already happening?<\/p>\n
It would appear at this point that California\u2019s hopes for a marijuana windfall was more of a pipe dream than anything else.<\/p>\n
\u2022 \u2022 \u2022<\/p>\n
It turns out that teachers in Israeli schools take guns to work, and that is fine with them. And with the students, too, apparently. The murder rate in Israel is much lower than even Los Angeles. The students do well, too. Apparently nobody ever tries to shoot up an Israeli school, and you can\u2019t blame them.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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