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Business/Politics

Organic Biting?

by Kristofer Young February 2, 2012

I may be naive, but this issue of Organic Bytes looks more like Organic Bites to me.

I have inserted above a copy of the top of today’s e-mail from the Organic Consumers Association (OCA). Please note that in the headline we are told that Monsanto and Big Ag are “Trying to…

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MIC-Mars, MIC-Occupied …

by Millennium Twain January 31, 2012

(Special to the Ojai Post)

“In a neat little town they call Belfast, apprenticed to trade I was bound …”

during the ’90s, a decade after I had left UC Space Sciences and done the California Senate and Space Station — after spending the ’80s becoming a ‘gee whiz’ expert on all…

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Vacancy on the Ojai Valley MAC

by Tyler Suchman January 30, 2012

More PR from Supervisor Bennett’s office…

The Ojai Valley Municipal Advisory Council (MAC) is a volunteer, elected advisory council formed by the County Board of Supervisors to review significant County land development projects and County land use policies in the unincorporated Ojai Valley. The MAC makes advisory recommendations to County departments,…

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Shoots of Green Business in Ojai

by Tyler Suchman January 29, 2012

Fun article by Kit Stolz in the VC Star on The MOB Shop, the Ojai Valley Green Coalition, Modern Folk and Rainbow Bridge. An excerpt on The MOB Shop’s plan to build a free-to-use outdoor bicycle repair stand:

“If I teach you how to fix your flat and how to maintain your…

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CA-26: Akiva Werbalowsky Announces for US Congress

by Tyler Suchman January 26, 2012

Can’t say I saw this one coming…

PR: Ojai educator Akiva Werbalowsky announced today as candidate for the US House of Representatives, CA 26th District (Ventura Bioregion). Voters from diverse backgrounds are attracted to Werbalowsky’s ‘Earth Conservative’ Republican view that environmental health and liberty education are required for American democracy to…

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Corporations are NOT People and Money is NOT Speech

by SPK January 20, 2012

Why we need a Constitutional Amendment against Corporate Personhood

                   tea party

This will take a second. The jurisprudence behind corporate personhood did not come into existence overnight with the Roberts Gang in the Supreme Court and the Citizens United decision. The idea that a corporation is a person and therefore due the rights of a human being under the Bill of Rights finds its roots in post Civil War America. But to explain the whole issue we have to start back still further in our nations history. The Revolutionary War which birthed the United States was as much a war against Royally chartered corporations like the East India Company as it was against British rule.

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Stop The Trucks: State deals business blow to Ojai Quarry

by Howard Smith January 10, 2012

Read excerpts from Tony Biasotti’s new article in the Ventura County Star that appeared in Tuesday’s online edition:

“While Ojai Quarry owner Larry Mosler waits to see whether the county will revoke his mining permit, he got bad news from the state: His mine has been barred from supplying material for…

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•*¨*5 Star Beginning to 2012¨*•.

by Jodi Womack January 10, 2012

♪•.¸¸¸¸.•* I hope you’re year is off to a 5 STAR start! ♪•.¸¸¸¸.•*

The Ojai Women’s Business Socials are coming up on 3 full years of monthly gatherings. I call that tremendous community support of local businesses and entrepreneurs…

This month’s Social will be hosted at our own five diamond resort, the…

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CA-26: Linda Parks is in

by Tyler Suchman January 10, 2012

From the VC Star, a second County Supervisor adds her name to the mix…

Parks becomes the first Republican to declare in the race, joining five Democrats who already have announced their intent to run. Her announcement comes two days after Rep. Elton Gallegly, R-Simi Valley, said he will retire at…

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Stop The Trucks: The Past and Future Legacy of the Ojai Valley

by Howard Smith January 9, 2012

By Michael J. Shapiro

The Stop the Trucks! Coalition (Coalition) has had to fend-off countless, scurrilous attacks from the moment we organized five years ago. We were vilified again following the most recent Ventura County Planning Commission hearing (December 15, 2011) after expressing our opposition to the Ojai Quarry (Quarry) being…

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