Comments on: Delta panel sets target end date http://www.mtdemocrat.com/news/delta-panel-sets-target-end-date/ California's Oldest Newspaper - Est. 1851 Thu, 23 May 2013 05:57:04 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Robert Pyke http://www.mtdemocrat.com/news/delta-panel-sets-target-end-date/comment-page-1/#comment-584753 Robert Pyke Thu, 10 Jan 2013 17:52:05 +0000 http://www.mtdemocrat.com/?p=273209#comment-584753 Roberta, I don’t want to intrude unnecessarily on the lovefest that you and Phil Isenberg are indulging in, but I am surprised that Phil, being a stickler for the language of the Delta Reform Act, did not correct your statement that the Delta Plan looks like being six months late. In fact it looks like being eighteen months late. The Act, in Section 85300, required adoption of the Delta Plan “on or before January 1, 2012″, not December 31 as you state. Eighteen eggs on the face, not six.

]]> By: Phil Isenberg http://www.mtdemocrat.com/news/delta-panel-sets-target-end-date/comment-page-1/#comment-583978 Phil Isenberg Wed, 09 Jan 2013 23:17:35 +0000 http://www.mtdemocrat.com/?p=273209#comment-583978 Ms. Long:

With the sad loss of newspaper reporters with a focus on California water, your reports on the Delta, water debates in general, and the Delta Stewardship Council in particular, are clear, focused and fair-minded.

Some weeks ago your newspaper ran an editorial saying very similar things. I don’t want to get you in trouble by saying only nice things, since you are certainly tough about pointing out unclear, imprecise and controversial things we do here at the Council. But that is the name of the game, and fair criticism makes all of us better.

A last word: your newspaper gives you the necessary space to report on complicated issues, and that too is essential to what you do so well.

My congratulations. Please keep it up.

Phil Isenberg, Chair
Delta Stewardship Council

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