RE: [California, Uber Alles]

["Jane Carnall" <jane -dot- carnall -at- digitalbridges -dot- com>]

>>Why put up with
>> rolling black outs, astronomical housing prices, and sales tax?

>Amen! I was wondering when those rolling black outs were going to be
>mentioned. How costly is it to businesses to have to deal with those?<

One of the Guardian's regular columnists, Duncan Campbell, is currently in
the US and wrote a column (last year) on the effects of blackouts in San
Francisco:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4122784,00.html
(There's another column on the rest of the union's relationship with
California, dated this time last year:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4134025,00.html.)

FYI.

Jane Carnall
The writers all stand around a cauldron chanting and occasionally tossing in
a small rodent. Unless stated otherwise, these opinions are mine, and mine
alone. Apologies for the long additional sig: it is added automatically and
outwith my control.


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