For the fourth straight year President Obama has proposed a budget with a deficit of more than $1 trillion. Republican candidate Ron Paul is campaigning on the promise to cut $1 trillion from the federal budget in the first year. We don’t know the details of his plan, but here’s ours: Eliminate the Labor Department and [...]
EDITOR: The letter from Martin Schuman regarding “Expensive Solar Company” is an almost exact copy of a phony e-mail letter that has been circulating the Internet for at least a few months. Check out Snopes.com to get the facts about the letter, which labels it mostly false. I think many of us are tired of [...]
EDITOR: The Solar thing just got a little more interesting. The Tonopah Solar company in Harry Reid’s Nevada is getting a $737 million loan from Obama’s DOE. The project will produce a 110-megawatt power system and employ 45 permanent workers. That’s costing us just $16 million per job. One of the investment partners in this endeavor [...]
Here’s the latest liberal attempt to make lemonade out of a lemon, namely gas at $4 a gallon. The lame lemonade logic is that the high price of gasoline will create more jobs in the “green technology” area. And that it will inspire big corporations to invest in “energy innovations.” The only thing we can [...]
By Charlotte Sanchez-Kosa Have you been thinking about going solar? One Placerville company can help you decide whether making the change will be of benefit. Placerville resident Luke Miller, 51, of Solar Hut, said there can be an economic advantage for those who decide to go solar. “Once you make the purchase of solar [...]
John Gilmore is the owner of Gilmore Heating, Air and Solar, but he gives credit to his employees. Gilmore relies on his employees to create great customer relations as well as great service. “People don’t come into our office to see a showroom of heat pumps or air conditioning units or solar panels,” said Gilmore. [...]
Democrat correspondent This year the annual Art and Wine Festival takes place on Saturday from 6 until 9 p.m. along Main Street in Placerville. It is always a great and well attended event and each year it presents the opportunity to learn something about wine. Bottles, corks, corkscrews and wines have been discussed. With the [...]
