The Mavericks of Watsonville Politics

Published December 11, 2013

The Mavericks of Watsonville Politics
Yet in spite of all that, the South County faces no shortage of problems: a dreadfully slow economy—with many workers scraping by at low wages, and unemployment hovering at close to 20 percent—and a nagging history of crime, with river flooding on …
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Evidence heard on two other CPRIT awards, but grand jury chose not to issue …
In March, 2012, the CPRIT Oversight Committee ratified a $ 20 million grant for an “incubator” project in Houston, a joint venture of Rice University and the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center that was awarded without a scientific review …
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Ironman and anti-doping
The USOC is a national Olympic committee, and prior to the inception of WADA in 1999 the USOC had the dual role of producing medals and policing doping. These were competing interests. … While I believe IFs are imperfect results managers, they are …
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