Monthly Archives: June 2011

Ruelas Ordered Not To Talk To Media

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Jacobo not doing a very good job at being his own attorney, trying to turn the court into a circus.

Prosecutor Ann Hill requested a permanent order Wednesday, a day after The Herald published a report detailing jailhouse interviews with Ruelas, who is representing himself in court.

Hill declined to be interviewed for The Herald’s report but said that while one or more of the witnesses are receiving financial support as part of the witness relocation program, none is being paid for their testimony.

In her motion, Hill said Ruelas violated the rules of conduct for attorneys by discussing the facts of the case. She asked Judge Timothy Roberts to permanently restrain the defendant and reconsider his decision to allow Ruelas to act as his own attorney.

Ruelas Ordered Not To Talk To Media

Otter Project Spying On Beach Visitors

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They are not scientists but have a voice in how we use natural resources. Like most global warming advocates..

Coastkeeper volunteers aren’t water police — in fact, the strict arrangement the organization has with the Department of Fish and Game is to observe and record coastal activity without interacting.

“Enforcement is not our job,” Hunt said. “We’re just here to gather information and give it to Fish and Game, which uses our data to help determine how they can best use their own limited resources: Should they put up a ‘no fishing’ sign in a certain area? Should they implement a public outreach and education program? Should they cite people for doing things in the wrong areas? They use our information to make those types of decisions.”

Otter Project Spying On Beach Visitors

How To Water The Golf Courses With Wastewater

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Whatever it takes, I’m not for pumping sewage to the old reservoir on David Avenue.

water water water

Sarah Hardgrave, P.G.’s environmental programs manager, says other options include tapping MRWPCA wastewater and routing rainwater from the Forest Lake Reservoir – but extending existing pipelines could be cost-prohibitive. Another possibility: turning a Cal Am corporate yard on David Avenue into a reservoir.?

About 100-150 acre-feet could supply both the links and the cemetery, she adds: “We would want to maximize all the irrigated city properties that we could.”?

How To Water The Golf Courses With Wastewater

Bay View School Closes

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New Monterey looks to be following in the footsteps of P.G. when it comes to fewer children in the population.

Bay View School Bye

It was a bittersweet day at Bay View, which closed Wednesday after 103 years in operation. Monterey Peninsula Unified District officials decided to close the high-performing school in 2009, partially to offset shrinking resources and partially to establish a K-5 and 6-8 middle schools configuration throughout the district. Bay View was K-6, and officials said it would not have enough students to make the small campus viable.

Students write goodbyes to the teacher on the board. They take photos of each other, the principal and the teachers, saying they don’t want to leave. But when 12:45 p.m. strikes, the halls become inundated with the banter of children as they leave Bay View for the last time.

Bay View School Closes

Attorney & Suspect Ruelas Says Informants Were Paid

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Fast track him to the death row please.

“I’m not here because of a palm print. I’m here because of what the confidential informants are saying about me,” he said. “They questioned me about the palm print in 2005. They didn’t arrest me.

“There’s other palm prints on there, too.”

Of the confidential witnesses?

“Matter of fact, yeah.”

Substainable Pacific Grove Has A Good Con Going, Eh?

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Social Justice

So you have an alleged non profit taking advantage of taxpayer supported facilities to advertise alleged ‘green’ businesses that wish to make a profit off of taxpayer subsidized schemes to put solar panels in foggy Pacific Grove. What a racket!

Sustainable Pacific Grove will present a free program on home energy rebates and financing from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesdayat the Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History.

Speakers will be Jay Tulley of local green building contractor Sage Building Solutions and Jennifer Rupnow of Energy Upgrade California.

Sustainable Pacific Grove Has A Good Con Going, Eh?

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Aaron Corn Asks For Reduced Sentence

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Think he’s unlearned a lifetime of bad habits in 3 months? Nah.

Though Corn asked for probation, Scott sentenced Corn to most of the maximum nine-year term he could have received.

Believing the sentence to be too harsh, however, Frank Dice, Corn’s attorney, was scheduled to present a motion asking Scott to reconsider his sentence.
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But Scott said he took the crash and other examples of Corn’s previous behavior, which included a substance-abuse problem, into account when he handed Corn the sentence.

Corn was “described as someone who is always in trouble, someone who always caused troubled,” Scott said in March. “And that is from his friends.”

Arron Corn Asks For Reduced Sentence

Broken Brokaw Hall Saga – Demolition Is Final Answer

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Cost to repair, half a million. Cost to demolish, $35,000

“It’s a historic structure,” said Esther Trosow, with the Conservancy. “It’s on the list of historic structures and they let it fall into a state of decay. If any private citizen did that, according to the historic preservation rules, they would have to be in injunctive relief, which means they would have to fix it. And the city has just decided that they don’t need to do that. They’re thumbing their nose at their own laws.”

Brokaw Hall Sign

Cedar Street Times is reporting that the building’s historical plaque has been removed and presumed stolen.

Broken Browkaw Hall Saga – Demolition Is Final Answer

No Raises For City Workers, Budget In The Black

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No fees for non-profits? Make them pay too, just because it’s a non-profit does not mean they are strapped for cash.

No tax increases are contemplated and city employees will receive no raises, he said. The economy has remained sluggish and is expected to stay that way, Becklenberg said, with minimal increases in city sales, hotel room and property tax revenues.

Some exceptions to the city fee increases to recover all costs will be made for nonprofit organizations renting city facilities for events, Becklenberg said.

No Raises For City Workers, Budget In The Black