Report from the DPRK: Indigo Rising

Further Unintended? Consequences

The Democratic People’s Republic of Kalifornia continues its emancipation of citizens and residents from local Jeffersonian control.  The state has already superseded local zoning laws by allowing building of up to 4-8 residences on previously zoned single home lots to further a goal of many millions of new homes that a state agency has recently found unnecessary due to flawed data and calculation. Now in the name of turning the Golden State into the State of Sun, Wind, and Wave, Governor/President Newsom is pushing a willing legislature to approve a new energy plan that bypasses local permitting empowering the California Energy Commission to fast-track approval of new renewable solar and wind farms on private or public lands independent of oversight by any elected officials.  Some rural counties welcome the opportunity to lease fallowed lands to energy farms, transferring scarce water to other needs. Many rural, semi-rural, suburban, and urban communities are opposed to this state "t…