Jeff Pelline's Sierra Foothills Report

‘”Sarah Palin’s Alaska,” the TLC reality show starring the former governor in her home state, will receive about $1.2 million in tax credits for filming in Alaska,” the Anchorage Daily News is reporting. “Under a state subsidy created by the Legislature in 2008 and signed into law by Palin, Alaska allows film and TV...

Longtime popular artist Teddy Kell, of Rough and Ready, has died. Teddy was 82 years old. Teddy – who lived and worked in our county since 1965 – died this past Thursday of lung cancer, after being diagnosed on Feb. 6, her daughter Meg Hughes told me. Teddy died with her family at her...

Paddy Power, the Irish bookmaker, is offering odds on the next country to force their leader to step down: 15/8 Yemen 9/4 Jordan 7/2 Algeria 7/2 Morocco 8/1 Bahrain 12/1 Iran 16/1 Libya 16/1 Sudan 16/1 Iraq 20/1 Saudi Arabia 20/1 Syria The ...

We hear a lot of high-pitched rhetoric nowadays about busting teachers’ unions, but local Sean Garvey posted this interesting factoid on Facebook: “Only five states do not have collective bargaining for educators and have deemed it illegal. Those states and their ranking on ACT/SAT scores are as follows: South Carolina – 50th North Carolina...

The California Labor Federation is sending this email around: “We Are One” – Candlelight Vigil in Solidarity with Wisconsin Workers Tuesday, February 22nd at 5:30pm West Steps, State Capitol, Sacramento Rallies. Crowds spilling into the streets. Seas of people marching together in solidarity. Every day this week, nonstop. This isn’t happening in Egypt…but in...

On Sunday’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS” on CNN, billionaire George Soros accused Rupert Murdoch of using Fox News and his media empire to change the direction of government, as the DailyCaller.com reported. “Well, look, Fox News makes a habit — it has imported the methods of George Orwell, you know, newspeak, where you can tell...

Putting politics aside, here’s a happier way to think of Tunisia on a snowy weekend: