March 22, 2013 Delta and Water Related News Links

Delta Related and Water News 
BDCP Crashes and Burns in W. Sacramento
Burt Wilson's Public Water News Service
http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?llr=jsitf5iab&v=001QhuZciaLI3V9jLDcU5_Qwx-1gsF2j7AWBomUqXRPE3t0j_OQH4DT-M812wgEcD6Vx0iRJp174UY8MWF6e3ijrn3FTqg8_J0HZ_oYh_ftWn4hE3FIRsfrAA%3D%3D

Maven's Notebook
Science and Report Notes: BDCP and C5S...
http://mavensnotebook.com/2013/03/20/science-and-report-notes-salmon-and-magnetic-fields-fish-and-their-sense-of-smell-and-redwood-creek-restoration/
Consolidated Delta Smelt and Salmonid Cases Updates...
http://mavensnotebook.com/2013/03/19/consolidated-delta-smelt-and-salmonid-cases-update-agencies-argue-their-case-for-an-extension-of-time/
California Water Policy Seminar Series Continues with Secretary John Laird
http://mavensnotebook.com/2013/03/19/mavens-minutes-california-water-policy-seminar-series-continues-with-secretary-john-laird-will-we-actually-be-able-to-decide-something/
For BDCP Information Flows Like Water
http://mavensnotebook.com/2013/03/18/for-bdcp-information-flows-like-water/
Water Conditions for Monday, March 18, 2013
http://mavensnotebook.com/2013/03/18/water-conditions-for-monday-march-18/
Blog Round-Up
https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4589237693415663348#editor/target=post;postID=5615189887821265822
In Their Own Words: DWR's Mark Cowin and DFW's Chuck Bonham
http://mavensnotebook.com/2013/03/15/mavens-minutes-in-their-own-words-dwrs-mark-cowin-and-dfws-chuck-bonham-on-the-bdcp/
Introducing the Guide to the Delta Plan
http://mavensnotebook.com/2013/03/12/introducing-the-guide-to-the-delta-plan/
Blog Round-Up
http://mavensnotebook.com/2013/03/11/blog-round-up-the-bdcp-big-gulps-brown-jobs-vs-green-jobs-and-dollars-for-climate-adaptation-or-mitigation-and-more/

Calitics: The Water Bond Goes With the Flow
http://www.calitics.com/diary/14921/the-water-bond-changes  

Well, this is one way to go about getting the shoveling chore done!
http://www.aguanomics.com/2013/03/friday-party_22.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+aguanomics+%28Aguanomics%29

The Bay-Delta and a New Era of Water Solutions
http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/bnelson/the_bay-delta_and_a_new_era_of.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+switchboard_bnelson+%28Switchboard%3A+Barry+Nelson%27s+Blog%29
   
Delta Related Private/Public Propaganda News
Feinstein Statement on Revised Water Allocations
http://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ContentRecord_id=76ed05d4-cb5c-4e1a-9414-d9d3c6a5ff3f
 
Farm Water News
http://farmwaternews.blogspot.com/2013/03/news-articles-and-links-from-march-22.html

Agenda 21/Sustainable Development
Undeniable Proof the U.S. Government Adopted Agenda 21
http://nikiraapana.blogspot.com/2013/03/undeniable-proof-us-government-adopted.html

Opposition to Agenda 21 is Not Just a Right Wing Agenda
http://nikiraapana.blogspot.com/2013/03/opposition-to-agenda-21-is-not-just.html

PPIC Publication: Californian's and Their Government
http://www.ppic.org/main/publication.asp?i=1050

Rural Counties Representatives of California
http://www.rcrcnet.org/rcrc/
 
2nd Amendment News
Feinstein's Gun Grabbing Plan Misfires as Conservatives Step Up
http://godfatherpolitics.com/9974/gun-grabbers-plans-misfire-as-conservatives-step-up/

Kerry Commits U.S. to U.M. Arms Trade Treaty Gun Ban
http://www.blacklistednews.com/Kerry_Commits_U.S._To_U.N._Arms_Trade_Treaty_Gun_Grab/24877/0/0/0/Y/M.html
 
Senator Feinstein has been blazing up the news papers with editorials...sore loser.
Senate Needs to Vote on Assault Weapons
http://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/feinstein-in-the-news?ContentRecord_id=122ffc9d-d5b1-4ee8-82ff-cdbd24a855d9

Americans and Their Guns
http://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/feinstein-in-the-news?ContentRecord_id=d118c23b-9bff-476d-933a-7744802c5718

A Better Path to Justice
http://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/op-eds?ContentRecord_id=5be092a2-187a-42b7-b0f1-2c1a0329e32d

Failure of Feinsteins' Assault Weapons Ban Can't End Gun Safety Fight
http://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/feinstein-in-the-news?ContentRecord_id=700d68e5-8107-4623-99b9-8be87972bb73

The Push to End Warrantless Intrusions on Digital Communications
http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2013/03/20/the-push-to-end-warrantless-intrusions-on-digital-communications/


Only in California: Mandating 'Smart Guns' in Future with Bill Now
http://www.calwatchdog.com/2013/03/22/only-in-ca-mandating-smart-guns-in-future-with-bill-now/

Agriculture/Science News
This is just bad, wrong, and evil...
Monsanto Protection Act Proves Corporations More Powerful than U.S. Government
http://www.blacklistednews.com/Monsanto_Protection_Act_Proves_Corporations_More_Powerful_Than_US_Government/24865/0/0/0/Y/M.html

Biotech Firm Slips in Amendment Allowing USDA to Overrule Courts on Genetically Engineered Crops
http://www.allgov.com/news/top-stories/biotech-firms-slip-in-amendment-allowing-usda-to-overrule-courts-on-genetically-engineered-crops-130322?news=849512

Beekeepers Sue EPA to Ban Pesticide, Protect Bees
http://www.capitalpress.com/content/AP-CA-dying-bees-insecticides-lawsuit-032213
  Levee/Infrastructure News

Fisheries/Wildlife/Habitat News
Manatees Dying in Droves on Both Florida Coasts
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/03/manatees-under-siege/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wiredscience+%28Wired%3A+Blog+-+Wired+Science%29

Environmental News
h/t Nature Watch
Tough Fracking Standards Part of Deal
http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Tough-fracking-standards-part-of-deal-4371845.php
California Bills Could Delay Fracking
http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/California-bills-could-delay-fracking-4371839.php

Economic/Tourism News
Feinstein, Nelson Introduce Bills to Eliminate Oil Company Subsidies
http://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ContentRecord_id=58b368b9-cdd7-4b0e-a8ee-2de03268c86a

High Speed Rail/BDCP Conveyance News
Quentin Kopp Slams Blended Plan, Calls It a Violation of Prop 1A
http://www.cahsrblog.com/2013/03/quentin-kopp-slams-blended-plan-calls-it-violation-of-prop-1a/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=quentin-kopp-slams-blended-plan-calls-it-violation-of-prop-1a

National Political News
America, Stop Cowering and Stand Up for Your Country
Laurie Roth
http://www.newswithviews.com/Roth/laurie369.htm

Former Attorney General Urges Probe of Al Jazeera
Cliff Kincaid
http://www.newswithviews.com/Kincaid/cliff706.htm

Feinstein Amendment Gives Intelligence Agencies Sequester Flexibility 
http://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ContentRecord_id=9517be80-ce9a-4435-824c-1c8331f7d162

Feinstein Statement at Intelligence Committee Hearing on Worldwide Threats
http://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ContentRecord_id=6e7a3d55-e17d-4509-8bc7-70609e1518a4

California Political News
Oceanside Pol to Steinberg: Fix Your Own Mess and Leave Us Alone
http://www.calwatchdog.com/2013/03/22/oceanside-pol-to-steinberg-fix-your-own-mess-and-leave-us-alone/
(I do love me some political smack-down!)

Editorial: Feinstein Fighting Outrageous Health Insurance Rate Hikes
http://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/feinstein-in-the-news?ContentRecord_id=dc683a51-167f-4fc2-97d6-83018717042c

Litigation News
Pre-Trial Hearing Begins for Farmer Targeted by Raw Milk Police
http://www.blacklistednews.com/Pre-Trial_Hearing_Begins_For_Farmer_Targeted_by_Raw_Milk_Police%3B_Legal_Concerns_Begin_to_Mount/24899/0/0/0/Y/M.html

Supreme Court Rejects Environmentalists' Plea
http://epaabuse.com/11684/news/supreme-court-rejects-environmentalists-plea/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=supreme-court-rejects-environmentalists-plea

California FOIA Decision Likely Bad News for EPA
http://epaabuse.com/11682/news/california-foia-decision-likely-bad-news-for-epa/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=california-foia-decision-likely-bad-news-for-epa
  
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March 7 2013 Delta, Water and News Related Links

Delta/California/Water News
Back to Business as Usual
Alex Breitler's Blog
http://blogs.esanjoaquin.com/san-joaquin-river-delta/2013/03/07/back-to-business-as-usual/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+san-joaquin-river-delta+%28Alex+Breitler%27s+San+Joaquin+Delta%2C+Delta+College+Blog%29
(That explains these images downstream from the Delta Cross Channel, just north of Walnut Grove Marina:

The amount of water the farmers want is just that -- the amount they want, not an amount to which they are legally entitled," according to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. 

Appeals Court Denies Bid for More Irrigation Water
CapitalPress.com
http://www.capitalpress.com/content/mp-irrigation-ruling-030713

DWR's Delta eNews
http://www.water.ca.gov/deltainit/docs/Delta_eNews_030713.pdf

The Dual Goals: An Elegant, Simple Reminder of What We're Working Toward
http://baydeltaconservationplan.com/blog/blog/13-03-07/The_Dual_Goals_An_Elegant_Simple_Reminder_of_What_We_re_Working_Toward.aspx

  Delta Related Private/Public Propaganda News
Farm Water Coalition
FarmWaterNews.com
http://farmwaternews.blogspot.com/2013/03/news-articles-and-links-from-march-7.html
(Volleyball occurring in comments from Chris Gulick, Barbara Barrigan-Parilla and Mike Wade.)

Learn About the New Water Management Culture
Aquafornia.com
http://www.aquafornia.com/index.php/2013/03/06/learn-water-management-culture-april-3-5/
(Cowin, Laird, Snow...it really just spins and spins and spins...right into 'Regional' governance structures, further entrenching Agenda 21 principles in California and Delta.)

Agenda 21/Sustainable Development
EPA Fully Embraces Role of 'Environmental Justice' Advocate
EPAAbuse.com
http://epaabuse.com/11442/news/epa-fully-embraces-role-of-environmental-justice-advocate/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=epa-fully-embraces-role-of-environmental-justice-advocate
(Anything with 'Justice' in the title comes directly from the United Nations and is double-speak for 'Redistribution'.)

Land-Use Zoning May Be Able to Reduce Crime in Urban Areas, Study Finds
ScienceCodex.com
http://www.sciencecodex.com/landuse_zoning_may_be_able_to_reduce_crime_in_urban_areas_study_finds-108134
(Again...more Agenda 21.  Stack and Pack housing and redirecting of suburbanite and rural people into inner city housing.)

New York's 'Sustainability' Plan aka 'Agenda 21'
CanadaFreePress.com
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/53614#When:14:27:03Z
(Little by little, community by community, and state by state are waking up the insidiousness of 'Agenda 21'.)

2nd Amendment News
The Right to Self-Defense by Andrew Napolitano
LewRockwell.com
http://lewrockwell.com/napolitano/napolitano90.1.html

Agriculture/Science News
MID Directors OK Early Start to Season, Water Delivery Limit
MercedSunStar.com
http://www.mercedsunstar.com/2013/03/05/2859507/mid-directors-ok-early-start-to.html

Organic Bytes #370 Attaching Food Labeling Fraud, Fracking and Antibiotics in Organics
Organic Consumer Association
http://www.organicconsumers.org/bytes/ob370.html

Levee/Infrastructure News
The Big Lift: APhoto Tour of the State Water Project's Edmonston Pumping Plan
Maven's Notebook
http://mavensnotebook.com/2013/03/07/the-big-lift-a-photo-tour-of-the-state-water-projects-edmonston-pumping-plant/

Fisheries/Wildlife/Habitat News

Environmental News
The Environment Has Always Gotten the Short End of the Stick
Inkstain Blog
http://www.inkstain.net/fleck/2013/03/the-environment-has-always-gotten-the-short-end-of-the-stick/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+JfleckAtInkstain+%28jfleck+at+inkstain%29

Economic/Tourism News

High Speed Rail/BDCP Conveyance News
CalTrain MOU Vote Delayed as Lynn Schnek Voices Concerns
California High Speed Rail Blog
http://www.cahsrblog.com/2013/03/caltrain-mou-vote-delayed-as-lynn-schenk-voices-concern/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=caltrain-mou-vote-delayed-as-lynn-schenk-voices-concern

National Political News
10 Best Moments of Rand Paul's Filibuster
RollCallNews.com
http://www.rollcall.com/news/10_best_moments_of_rand_pauls_filibuster-222918-1.html?ET=rollcall:e15286:33852a:&st=email&pos=epm

Federal Reserve Constitutional or Merely Legal?
CanadaFreePress.com
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/53630#When:17:44:47Z

Rand Paul's Filibuster Shows GOP What Leadership Looks Like
CanadaFreePress.com
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/53624#When:15:37:19Z

California Political News

Litigation News
Our Royal Supreme Court Chains Fourth Amendment
CatoInstitute.org
http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/our-royal-supreme-court-chains-fourth-amendment?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CatoRecentOpeds+%28Cato+Recent+Op-eds%29

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Water Commission to Hold Workshop on Public Benefits Water Projects
http://www.acwa.com/news/state-budget-fees/water-commission-hold-workshop-public-benefits-water-projects

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Beauty of Mathematics
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=h60r2HPsiuM&feature=youtube_gdata_player

January 25, 2013 Delta Water and News Links

Delta/California/Water News
Stop Shasta Dam Expansion 
Friends of the River
https://secure2.convio.net/fotr/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=309

Big Water Projects Should Make Us Queasy
Here’s the bottom line: Price-sensitive demand, growing populations and climate change trends are creating unprecedented challenges to our Western water resources. How water managers solve these challenges — and pay for them — should be less about pie-in-the-sky solutions and more about old-fashioned thrift.
Salt Lake Tribune
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/opinion/55678373-82/projects-demand-las-vegas.html.csp

What They're Saying
Alex Breitler's Blog
http://blogs.esanjoaquin.com/san-joaquin-river-delta/2013/01/25/what-theyre-saying/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+san-joaquin-river-delta+%28Alex+Breitler%27s+San+Joaquin+Delta%2C+Delta+College+Blog%29

CRWC's Statement on Gov. Brown's State of the State Address
Farm Water News
http://farmwaternews.blogspot.com/2013/01/cfwcs-statement-on-gov-browns-state-of.html
(Makes one wonder just exactly where the Governor ends and Mr. Wade begins.)
    
Agenda 21/Sustainable Development
Feinstein Introduces Sweeping Unconstitutional Gun Control Bill in Senate
GodFatherPolitics.com
http://godfatherpolitics.com/9152/feinstein-introduces-sweeping-unconstitutional-gun-control-bill-in-senate/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+GodfatherPolitics+%28Godfather+Politics%29
(She's looking pretty rough lately.) 

Feinstein's Shot Heard 'Round the World'
PatriotPost.com
http://patriotpost.us/editions/16450
 
San Francisco 1978, Dianne Feinstein and Gun Control
Unexamined Premises
http://pjmedia.com/michaelwalsh/2013/01/24/san-francisco-1978-dianne-feinstein-and-gun-control/?singlepage=true
(Excellent article of local history, and the decent Stateswoman Ms. Feinstein used to be, once upon a time; or until she met and married Mr. Blum.)
  
The Club of Liberals, Trans-humanism, Depopulation
NoMoreFakeNews.com
http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?llr=4tixiugab&v=001lnBTEkB9iIFVGjcxk8R4jeJvqXxxgbrx2HaVApnnHv0KhD-3iWnl_mt0XqvI6SYPkCoFCCzIXYLBt0dV3NNRQD2iIHrcazBbQp5WVHF8ZqPNcp-1g1rHAg%3D%3D
(Excellent read, especially towards the end.)

Fascist City Arrests Two Moms for Opposing 'SMART Meters' in Homes
GodFatherPolitics.com
http://godfatherpolitics.com/9154/city-arrests-two-moms-for-opposing-smart-meters-in-homes/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+GodfatherPolitics+%28Godfather+Politics%29
 
Agriculture/Science News
Fruit and Vegetable Intake Associated with Lower Risk of ER-Breast Cancer
ScienceCodex.com
http://www.sciencecodex.com/fruit_and_vegetable_intake_is_associated_with_lower_risk_of_er_breast_cancer-105683

Low Vitamin D Levels Linked to High Risk of Pre-menopausal Breast Cancer
ScienceCodex.com
http://www.sciencecodex.com/low_vitamin_d_levels_linked_to_high_risk_of_premenopausal_breast_cancer-105686

Levee/Infrastructure News

Fisheries/Wildlife/Habitat News
HORB Revisited
Bay Delta Blog
http://baydelta.wordpress.com/2012/01/23/horb-revisited/

Napa Wine Country Water for Fish Showdown at Kimball Creek
LloydGCarter.com
http://www.lloydgcarter.com/content/130124594_napa-wine-country-water-fish-showdown-kimball-creek
 
Environmental News
Video: Ensuring California Rural Poor Not Forgotten in CEQA
California Economic Summit
http://www.caeconomy.org/reporting/entry/ensuring-california-rural-poor-not-forgotten-in-ceqa-process
 
Economic/Tourism News
Yes, It's Time For Water Markets
Aguanomics.com
http://www.aguanomics.com/2013/01/yes-its-time-for-water-markets.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+aguanomics+%28Aguanomics%29
 
High Speed Rail/BDCP Conveyance News
Jerry Brown on the Viability of High Speed Rail
California's Capitol
http://www.californiascapitol.com/2013/01/jerry-brown-on-the-viability-of-high-speed-rail/

 
Governor Jerry Brown and the Little Engine That Could
California High Speed Rail Blog
http://www.cahsrblog.com/2013/01/governor-jerry-brown-and-the-little-engine-that-could/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=governor-jerry-brown-and-the-little-engine-that-could
 
National Political News
Dr. Carl Parnell America's Ship of State, Part 4
NewsWithViews.com
http://www.newswithviews.com/Parnell/carl119.htm

UN Expert Investigates U.S. Drone Use, Targeted Killings Involving Civilians Included
FoxNews.com
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/01/24/un-expert-investigates-us-drone-attacks-targeted-killings-that-involve-civilian/

Mississippi Bill Would Nullify Federal Laws
FoxNews.com
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/01/24/mississippi-bill-seeks-to-nullify-federal-laws/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fpolitics+%28Internal+-+Politics+-+Text%29

Hillary Fails Benghazi Fact Check 
National Conservative Examiner
http://www.examiner.com/article/hillary-fails-benghazi-fact-check
 
California Political News
California Institute for Federal Policy
http://www.calinst.org/bul2/b2003.shtml

Devore: Numbers Show Arnold's Tax Increase Cost Jobs
CalWatchDog.com
http://www.calwatchdog.com/2013/01/25/devore-numbers-show-arnolds-tax-increase-cost-jobs/

The Next Parks Department Cover Up
CalWatchDog.com
http://www.calwatchdog.com/2013/01/25/the-next-parks-dept-cover-up/
 
Litigation News
Syngenta Settlement: Cash for Water Districts
WHOTV.com
http://whotv.com/2013/01/24/settlement-cash-syngenta-pays-iowa-water-districts/

Court: Obama Appointments Are Unconstitutional
FoxNews.com
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/01/25/court-obama-appointments-are-unconstitutional/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fpolitics+%28Internal+-+Politics+-+Text%29
 
Oyster Farm Challenges Eviction From Park in Court
CapitalPress.com
http://www.capitalpress.com/content/AP-CA-oyster-farm-dispute-012512
 
Tribal News
Idle No More State Rally
Saturday, January 26th
North Steps Capitol Building
1:00-4:00 PM
Opening blessings from Local California Nations California Indian Dancers.
Speeches (special speech by Sylvia McAdam Saysewahum one of the founding women of Idle No More) via skype.
Wokini Indigenous Drum Group and Dancers (more drums TBA)
Aztec/Mexica Dancers.
Round Dance.
This event will be streamed live! for our relatives that live far way and cannot make it.
For more Information: http://idlenomore1.blogspot.com/
 
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Delta Methylmercury TMDL Nonpoint Sources Workgroup 
January 31, 2013
Meeting materials
http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?llr=skitmfcab&v=001Akwh5HY8vpykA-4K_yw1LhhFujh-_tZuxiI-LO1LmLihBlC4Yjd5BDsp8x6d9js5QotSMnRV55DSfpXLuF_VEE35ZPdi04kI-lR0O0ggjPDOyhTy8CmXCDDbNZ8R-H1r2vmk-bcwDAO1enCUPfxtCXvahNbk7D7AZ9Rtp4VfTMQGzHroEpRZdbtNn13gjSu6OV5g89u0gtw9ca7Kk8ZL8U_dmqOiD09icZkPtdNR6pmW0SC9Vjtq5IpRsL8eDBtqsibq0bNT5BLB4TggyG4YMXvfnAw1ZdBSbKkkcMmFNRejfeMXCYNcq-426HnO3wg8-mKH6immrfsLxjYToGYdztqERhCGwMS5
 
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January 10-24, 2013 Delta Water and News Links

Because It's Cool!
There's hope for the future yet!  Enjoy!!!
2012 Junior II Champs: Shag Dance
http://videos2view.net/shag-dance.htm

Delta/California/Water News
It's Time For a Serious Study of the West Delta Intake Concept
Dr. Jeff Michael
Valley Economist
http://valleyecon.blogspot.com/2013/01/its-time-for-serious-study-of-west.html

Link to Dr. Pyke's Western Delta Intake Concept Plan
Alex Breitler's Blog
http://blogs.esanjoaquin.com/san-joaquin-river-delta/2013/01/14/pykes-plan/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+san-joaquin-river-delta+%28Alex+Breitler%27s+San+Joaquin+Delta%2C+Delta+College+Blog%29

More Talk of Pyke's Plan
Alex Breitler's Blog
http://blogs.esanjoaquin.com/san-joaquin-river-delta/2013/01/14/pykes-plan/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+san-joaquin-river-delta+%28Alex+Breitler%27s+San+Joaquin+Delta%2C+Delta+College+Blog%29

How to Construct a Permeable Levee
Delta National Park
http://www.deltanationalpark.org/blog/view/how_to_construct_a_permeable_levee/

Alien (Weed) Conspiracy Theory
Alex Breitler's Blog
http://blogs.esanjoaquin.com/san-joaquin-river-delta/2013/01/14/pykes-plan/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+san-joaquin-river-delta+%28Alex+Breitler%27s+San+Joaquin+Delta%2C+Delta+College+Blog%29

'New' Delta Plan rehashes Old Plans From 1960's and 1970's
CalWatchDog.com
http://www.calwatchdog.com/2013/01/24/new-delta-plan-rehashes-old-plans-from-1950s-and-70s/

DWR's Delta eNews
http://www.water.ca.gov/deltainit/docs/Delta_eNews012413.pdf

Governor Brown Uses Address to Promote Peripheral Tunnels
Dan Bacher
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/01/24/18730737.php

Coalition Releases a New Portfolio-Based Conceptual Alternative for the Bay-Delta
Barry Nelson
http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/bnelson/coalition_releases_a_new_portf.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+switchboard_bnelson+%28Switchboard%3A+Barry+Nelson%27s+Blog%29

Restore the Delta Responds to Governor Brown's State of the State
http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?llr=xp76ilcab&v=001Akwh5HY8vpyc1w1s2A32rFytB8GS1qmAomcUS0Lpm7vGe0XTVyLr4TD_CbtzK0i9FhPOkg_KC0CNt32vzdpNwD6Wzhm5L8YhdkcfbP8VfPPvS4frnLIRFA%3D%3D

Restore the Delta Responds to 'Portfolio-Based' Tunnel Proposal
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/01/17/18730391.php

Why Did a Defense/Intelligence Contractor Serve as Lead Consultant on Delta Tunnel Plan?
Dan Bacher
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/01/20/1180585/-Why-is-a-defense-intelligence-contractor-the-lead-consultant-on-Delta-tunnel-plan

Water Commission Releases Annual Review of SWP
ACWA.com
http://www.acwa.com/news/infrastructure/water-commission-releases-annual-review-swp

Coalition Calls for Portfolio-Based Alternative to be Analyzed om BDCP
http://www.acwa.com/news/delta/coalition-calls-portfolio-based-alternative-be-analyzed-bdcp

ACWA Submits Comment Letters on Delta Plan Documents
ACWA.com
http://www.acwa.com/news/delta/acwa-submits-comment-letters-delta-plan-documents

Farm Water News
http://farmwaternews.blogspot.com/2013/01/news-articles-and-links-from-january-24.html
http://farmwaternews.blogspot.com/2013/01/news-articles-and-links-from-january-23.html
http://farmwaternews.blogspot.com/2013/01/news-articles-and-links-from-january-22.html
http://farmwaternews.blogspot.com/2013/01/news-articles-and-links-from-january-21.html
http://farmwaternews.blogspot.com/2013/01/news-articles-and-links-from-january-18.html
http://farmwaternews.blogspot.com/2013/01/news-articles-and-links-from-january-17.html
http://farmwaternews.blogspot.com/2013/01/news-articles-and-links-from-january-16.html
http://farmwaternews.blogspot.com/2013/01/news-articles-and-links-from-january-15.html
http://farmwaternews.blogspot.com/2013/01/news-articles-and-links-from-january-14.html
http://farmwaternews.blogspot.com/2013/01/news-articles-and-links-from-january-11.html
http://farmwaternews.blogspot.com/2013/01/news-articles-and-links-from-january-10.html

Agenda 21/Sustainable Development
The Key Word is 'Precedent' in Opposing a Con Con
American Policy Center
http://us1.campaign-archive2.com/?u=3af5d41d21ad9fce53c86ba9d&id=d090589bef&e=75b5b6dbb8

UN Gun Grab on Pace for March
The New American
http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/item/14237-un-general-assembly-votes-unanimously-to-hammer-out-global-gun-control-treaty

The Equator Principles and Sustainable Poverty
American Policy Center
http://americanpolicy.org/2013/01/24/the-equator-principles-and-sustainable-poverty/

Resolutions to Protect Property Rights
American Policy Center
http://americanpolicy.org/2013/01/24/resolutions-to-protect-property-rights/

Agriculture/Science News

Levee/Infrastructure News

Fisheries/Wildlife/Habitat News

Environmental News
CEQA is a Safety Net: Environmental Attorney's Perspective
California Economic Summit
http://www.caeconomy.org/reporting/entry/ceqa-is-a-safety-net-environmental-attorneys-perspective

New Study Finds Infill and Public Transit Projects Caught Up in CEQA Net

http://www.caeconomy.org/reporting/entry/new-study-finds-infill-public-transit-projects-caught-up-in-ceqa-net
Protecting and Strengthening Environmental 'Bill of Rights'

http://www.caeconomy.org/reporting/entry/protecting-and-strengthening-californias-environmental-bill-of-rights

CEQA Modernization Debate Begins to Intensify

http://www.caeconomy.org/reporting/entry/ceqa-modernization-debate-begins-to-intensify

CEQA Reform Isn't What it Seems to Be - Law Professor's Perspective

http://www.caeconomy.org/reporting/entry/ceqa-reform-isnt-what-it-seems-to-be-law-professors-perspective

Where Things Stand on CEQA: Steinberg Still Pushing for Reform

http://www.caeconomy.org/reporting/entry/where-things-stand-on-ceqa-steinberg-still-pushing-for-reform
Video: Conservationists Movement Open to CEQA Reform Discussion But...

http://www.caeconomy.org/reporting/entry/video-conservation-movement-open-to-ceqa-reform-discussion-but
Video: Labor Leader Speaks Out on CEQA Reform

http://www.caeconomy.org/reporting/entry/video-labor-leader-speaks-out-on-ceqa-reform
CEQA Reform is Long Overdue - Environmental Lawyer's Perspective

http://www.caeconomy.org/reporting/entry/ceqa-reform-is-long-overdue-environmental-lawyers-perspective
Save or Tear Down? CEQA Works for Question of Historic Buildings

http://www.caeconomy.org/reporting/entry/save-or-tear-down-ceqa-works-for-historic-building-issues-attorney
Middle Ground Exists on CEQA Reform - Environmental Attorney

http://www.caeconomy.org/reporting/entry/save-or-tear-down-ceqa-works-for-historic-building-issues-attorney
Video: CEQA as Public Health Tool

http://www.caeconomy.org/reporting/entry/save-or-tear-down-ceqa-works-for-historic-building-issues-attorney

Economic/Tourism News
First Impression of the NRDC Portfolio Delta Plan
Dr. Jeff Michael
Valley Economist
http://valleyecon.blogspot.com/2013/01/first-impression-of-nrdc-portfolio.html

WestWater Research, LLC Announces its 2013 Water Investor Conference: Water & Agriculture as Real Asset Investments
Aguanomics.com
http://www.prweb.com/releases/prweb2013/1/prweb10300429.htm

High Speed Rail/BDCP Conveyance News
Rail Project Begins Grabbing CA Farmers' Land
CalWatchDog.com
http://www.calwatchdog.com/2013/01/18/rail-project-begins-grabbing-ca-farmers-land/

California High Speed Rail Blog
CHSRA Says July 2013 Groundbreaking Still on Track
http://www.cahsrblog.com/2013/01/chsra-says-july-2013-groundbreaking-still-on-track/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=chsra-says-july-2013-groundbreaking-still-on-track
CEQA Reform and Transit
http://www.cahsrblog.com/2013/01/ceqa-reform-and-transit-planning/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ceqa-reform-and-transit-planning
CHSRA Cleared to Begin Property Acquisition
http://www.cahsrblog.com/2013/01/chsra-cleared-to-begin-property-acquisition/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=chsra-cleared-to-begin-property-acquisition
Jeff Denham Appointed Chair of House Railroad Committee Vows to Continue War on California HSR
http://www.cahsrblog.com/2013/01/jeff-denham-appointed-chair-of-house-railroad-committee-vows-to-continue-war-on-california-hsr/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=jeff-denham-appointed-chair-of-house-railroad-committee-vows-to-continue-war-on-california-hsr
CHSRA and Amtrak to Collaborate on Train Orders
http://www.cahsrblog.com/2013/01/chsra-and-amtrak-to-collaborate-on-train-orders/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=chsra-and-amtrak-to-collaborate-on-train-orders
Construction Managers Chosen for Madera-Fresno Section
http://www.cahsrblog.com/2013/01/construction-managers-chosen-for-madera-fresno-section/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=construction-managers-chosen-for-madera-fresno-section

National Political News
Senator Feinstein's Bizzare New Weapons Legislation
Canada Free Press
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/52638#When:00:30:59Z

Guns and the President
Andrew Napolitano
http://www.lewrockwell.com/napolitano/napolitano84.1.html

California Political News
California's Changing K-12 Accountability Program
PPIC Publication
http://www.ppic.org/main/publication_quick.asp?i=1043
Critical reading I highly recommend in response to this publication.  This is vital to those with toddlers/youngsters entering into the public school system.  You owe it to your child/grand child to read this book, it is that important.
Common Core A Trojan Horse for Education Reform
Orlean Koehle
ISBN Number: 9781-4675-4965-3 (for Amazon, etc. ordering)

Litigation News
Judge Tentatively Rules Against Plaintiffs Challenging Monterey Amendment Water Deal
California Water Impact Network
http://www.c-win.org/content/best-best-and-krieger-legal-alert-judge-tentatively-rules-against-plaintiffs-challenging-mon

Tribal News

Calendar
Delta Historical Ecology and Landscape Scale Restoration: As Applied to Williamson/McCormack Tract
Delta Stewardship Council's Delta Science Program
January 30, 2013
http://deltacouncil.ca.gov/science-event-detail/8251

Is Peace Possible in the Delta Water Wars?
Delta Conservancy
http://www.deltaconservancy.ca.gov/
Is Peace Possible in the Delta Water Wars? is the topic of a UC Center Sacramento panel discussion including Russell van Loben Sels and Gilbert Cosio
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
12:00-1:30 p.m.
1130 K Street.
The event is free, and lunch is provided.
To register, visit the UC Center's website: http://uccs.ucdavis.edu/events/registrations/2013-February-6-DeltaWaterWars.
http://delta.groupaya.net/ 

Written Comment Opportunities
Comment Period Extended for Proposed San Joaquin Flows
ACWA.com
http://www.acwa.com/news/water-quality/comment-period-extended-proposed-san-joaquin-flows