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July 23, 2012 8:54 AM San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station to Remain Shuttered

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued its final report investigating two units at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, a nuclear power plant located on the Pacific coast of California, which have been shut down since January 2012 after...

By Tina Gerhardt

December 20, 2011 11:00 AM North Korea, East Germany, . . . California

Andrew Sullivan passes on this amusing line from James Pethokoukis: We’ve had some eye-opening natural economic experiments: North and South Korea. East and West Germany. California and Texas. Enough is enough. I don’t quite see the parallel here. I’ve heard...

By Andrew Gelman

November 28, 2011 11:15 AM Occupy UC

Today the Berkeley faculty will have a special meeting to consider several resolutions condemning the police behavior at the Nov. 9 Occupy Cal demonstration, and another resolution that says in part: Therefore be it Resolved that the Berkeley Division of...

By Michael O'Hare

November 21, 2011 7:05 PM Poor Leadership and the University of California Protests

When the Alameda County Sheriff’s cops suited up in their riot armor and, AFAIK with our campus officers , beat a bunch of our students and faculty with batons, my chancellor was in Shanghai setting up a branch campus; I...

By Michael O'Hare

November 17, 2011 7:00 AM The Dog that Caught the Car

OWS is losing public support, to 33 for-45 opposed from 35F-36O a month ago. The project is suffering from a variety of problems mostly related to the lack of focus and leadership that appeared to its adherents as a virtue...

By Michael O'Hare