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FPPC Investigating Nevada County’s Measure V Mailers
According to the FPPC, Nevada County is being investigated for sending mass mailers to voters using taxpayer dollars (Case No. 2023-00162).
The Supreme Court’s Insertion in Politics: Dred Scott
In arguably one of the most controversial opinions of the United States Supreme Court, Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney’s opinion in Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) contributed to the Panic of 1857 and defined the debates of the Illinois senate race in 1858 between Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln.
Nevada County Board of Education: January 2023
Four of the five members of the Nevada County Board of Education met in January 2023. Susan Clarabut, vice president, led the meeting.
How Radical was Mary Wollstonecraft’s Political Theory?
Wollstonecraft expresses frustration regarding how these noble thinkers could be so blind to what she considered to be their blatant and obtuse hypocritical reasoning.
Clear Creek School District: January 2023
There was a motion to approve a new administrative regulation that would include a law requiring schools to install a menstrual products machine in at least one boy’s bathroom.
Pleasant Ridge Union School District: January 2023
The Board unanimously approved 23 updated Board policies, administrative regulations, and exhibits.
Why Do We Have Two Pasty Restaurants in Grass Valley?
Being observant, I inquired of my friend as to why there are no pasty restaurants in the old mining town of Nevada City just a few miles away.
The Origins of WWI
Beginning in the mid-19th century, aggressive German military expansion and aggressive, ill-conceived foreign policy created tension and fear among the neighboring European nations. As a result of the personalities of the leaders of these nations and the entangled military and economic alliances among the same countries, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand became the first domino in a series of events which culminated in “the war to end all wars.”
The History of Empire Mine Company: The Bourn Family
William Bowers Bourn was the original owner of the Empire Mine Company. According to Roger A. Lescohler in The Story of the Empire Mine, 1850-1956, Bourn was a descendant of Jared Bourn “who came from England in 1630 with John Winthrop, the founder of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.”
Nevada County Board of Education: December 2022
The board voted on a new salary schedule, which includes the superintendent’s salary, effective July 1, 2022.
Grass Valley School District: December 2022
The Grass Valley School District held its final board meeting of 2022. Here’s what the board voted on (all votes were unanimous).
The English Petition of Right and its Application in the New World
The significance of the Petition of Right of 1628 is not that the Petition established new rights by some act of Parliament but that the Petition sought enforcement of rights that the Five Knights already possessed by and through Magna Carta.
The Magna Carta and its Application in the New World
Magna Carta, in its simplest terms, was a very specific peace treaty between the monarch and the nobility which contained 63 specific paragraphs regarding the future relationship between the parties thereto.