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Salinas Loses .5 Million Dollars From “Green Vehicles” Involvement
City governments need to stay out of private sector businesses.
A Salinas car manufacturing company that was expected to build environmentally friendly electric cars and create new jobs folded before almost any vehicles could run off the assembly line.
The city of Salinas had invested more than half a million dollars in Green Vehicles, an electric car start-up company.
All of that money is now gone, according to Green Vehicles President and Co-Founder Mike Ryan.
Thing is butt ugly, too.
From the San Jose Mercury in 2010. Reads like a sham pitch full of eco-babble. No mention of true environmental progresses such as recyclable building materials or support for the vendors in China (!!) to improve their pollution output.
The first Triac prototypes were made in China, but the company moved manufacturing operations to California to lower its carbon footprint as soon as it got funding from the energy commission. Building the Triac in the state with the greatest market for electric vehicles will minimize the cost of transporting materials and vehicles, Ryan said.
Green Vehicles is also working on an online site that tracks the company’s greenhouse gas emissions and waste. “I want people to see these kinds of metrics,” Ryan said.
Salinas Loses .5 Million Dollars From “Green Vehicles” Involvement
Slowpokes Remembered
They didn’t have girlfriends way back when — or so they claim — because every nickel and dime they earned was already promised in advanced to the true loves of their lives.
The good times returned Saturday for the aging gearheads who were among the earliest members of Monterey’s original Slowpokes Car Club, founded in 1949 by a couple of teenagers named Mike Homan and Al Bergquist.
A handful of the hot-rodding pioneers reunited at the Monterey Fairgrounds, sharing war stories with friends whom they hadn’t seen, in most cases, for 30 to 45 years, at a vintage car event organized by a Gold Coast Rods, a modern-day descendant of the Slowpokes.
The first line caught my eye “they didn’t have girlfriends or so they claimed”. One Slowpoke I knew very well had a beautiful girlfriend. Not only was she gorgeous she worked at Foster Freeze on Lighthouse ave. I would gladly help clean uncle’s ’59 Impala for a ride to see her.
25th Anniversary, One Of The Best Movies Ever
Car Top Spirit Nests On Sale
Now you can pull over anywhere and connect with your nesting spirits
Ear
Another Spinach Recall
I thought Sam the Sham Farr was busy spending our tax dollars to keep Salinas valley produce safe and clean?
Fresh Express announced a precautionary recall of nearly 3,000 cases of bagged spinach that may be contaminated with salmonella, according to a report released by the produce company on Tuesday.
Salinas-based Fresh Express voluntarily recalled 2,939 cases of 9-ounce spinach bags because of a positive result for salmonella from random sample testing.
Dead Woman Found Was Daughter Of Local Restaurant Owner
A 41-year-old Monterey woman whose body was discovered Thursday morning in Los Padres National Forest was the daughter of local celebrity chef John Pisto, according to a Monterey County Sheriff’s Office spokesman.
Tawni Neikirk’s body was found on a private rural road off near the Monterey Institute for Research in Astronomy at about 10:50 a.m., sheriff’s Cmdr. Mike Richards said.
Dead Woman Found Was Daughter Of Local Restaurant Owner (KTVU News)
Sam Farr & Our Military Bases
What? Sam The Sham would do all he could to eliminate the armed services from his district so he can come up with more reuse committees.
A bipartisan congressional caucus focusing on civilian neighbors of military installations is being formed with Rep. Sam Farr, D-Carmel, and Kansas Republican Rep. Lynn Jenkins as co-chairmen.
Farr credited creation of the House Defense Communities Caucus to Monterey City Manager Fred Meurer and Fort Ord Reuse Authority Executive Officer Michael Houlemard’s work on dealing with Fort Ord’s closure in 1993 and the subsequent forging of agreements between the remaining military posts and the city of Monterey for municipal services.
Cash Strapped City To Outsource Police
Tourist business is down, voters rejected a sales tax boost, and lawsuits have cost the city precious funds. What city? Oh, it’s Half Moon Bay.
Half Moon Bay is disbanding its 12-member police force and the city will contract its services to the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office. City officials chose the sheriff’s office over the Pacifica police department on Saturday, Mayor Naomi Patridge said in an email.
The city is following the lead of nearby San Carlos, which eliminated its police department six months ago and is using the San Mateo County sheriff.