Goodbye to all that
GOT grass but don’t want it? Or the mowers? Or the blowers? Click here for a Los Angeles Times piece on how to get rid of it.
LAT Home editor Craig Nakano links to it this week after spotting a Wall Street Journal “love note to Scotts Miracle-Gro.“
Finally, with apologies for the self-promotion, there is also a link to the Dry Garden column, which will pick up next week with a visit to Tree of Life Nursery in San Juan Capistrano. Links will come up when the Times publishes it.…
Pipeline? What pipeline?
IF August 20th in Las Vegas proved anything, it’s what can happen when a publicity stunt backfires.
What had been hyped by a local newspaper and Pat Mulroy, general manager of the Southern Nevada Water Authority, as an “up-or-down” vote on the Las Vegas pipeline project soon gave way to embarrassed disclaimers from members of the SNWA board. They were ”not voting upon starting to build a pipeline” assured director after director but rather “voting upon continuing a process to pursue environmental permits.”
The meeting room was packed with Nevadans there to beg the SNWA board for mercy or sing the praises of White Pine County, the place of springs and seeps that SNWA’s proposed 300-mile pipeline would tap most heavily (photos above). After 20 years of pursuing the pipeline project, SNWA general manager Pat Mulroy has the stomach to face down pudgy-cheeked, cap-in-hand octogenarian ranchers whose family farms her …
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