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Measure G             Truckee’s library, built nearly 50 years ago, accommodates 54 people. Yes, 54 against a local population of over 20,000 residents, most being library card holders. Plus out-of-town visitors. Given its location, our library can’t be expanded. On November 4th we have a chance to vote Yes on Measure G for a new Truckee regional library and emergency resource center.             Given the cost to locals it’s really a no brainer. 57% of the cost is funded by [...]

            As most of you serious Law Review readers know April is National Donate Life. We do an organ and tissue donor column every few years as the message bears repeating.             Over 100,000 Americans are in need of an organ transplant—every day an average of seventeen people die waiting for an organ donation.             More than one third of all deceased donors are aged 50 or older and nearly 8 percent are age 65 [...]

            Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco is one of California’s top tier law schools. I probably wouldn’t be able to get in today. The school is named after Serranus Clinton Hastings, the first Chief Justice of California and the State’s third Attorney General. By 1870, Hastings had amassed significant wealth from various real estate ventures and become one of the largest landowners in California, mostly in Mendocino County. Hastings College of the Law             Serranus Hastings wanted [...]