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Here's what Brown Shoe made from the sale of Shoes.com
2015-04-06 18:01:36| Footwear - Topix.net
Brown Shoe received $15 million from the sale of Shoes.com to Canadian e-commerce retailer SHOEme in December, according to the Clayton-based shoe seller's annual report. Brown Shoe, led by CEO Diane Sullivan , recorded a net gain of $4.7 million from the sale - the difference, before taxes and after sales costs, between what Brown sold Shoes.com for and its value on the company's books.
Brown defends not requiring water cuts for Calif farmers
2015-04-06 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: In a nationally televised interview Sunday, California Gov. Jerry Brown defended his decision to largely target urban areas rather than agricultural users with his historic order to curb water use. During an appearance on the ABC news program This Week, Brown told host Martha Raddatz that farmers had already fallowed hundreds of thousands of acres of land and pulled up vines and trees. Farmworkers who are at [the] very low end of the economic scale here are out of work, Brown said. There...
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California drought or dream? Jerry Brown at a hinge of Golden State history
2015-04-06 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: If ever there was a California governor made for this moment, Jerry Brown might well be it. Fifty years ago, Governor Brown's father sat in the same seat that the son now occupies, and from the political smithies of Sacramento he forged the modern image of the Golden State. More than any other man, perhaps, Pat Brown fashioned California's sense of itself a land of unapologetic possibility, dappled with sun, dusted with dreams, and outlined only by the limits of the imagination. Be it the building...
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Jerry Brown defends drought order that doesn't limit farmers
2015-04-06 06:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Gov. Jerry Brown on Sunday defended his order requiring Californians statewide to cut back on their water use in a historic mandate that spares those who consume the most farmers. Related Stories As California endures a fourth year of drought, Brown's order this week requires towns and cities statewide to draw down water use by 25 percent compared with 2013 levels. While past reductions were voluntary, Brown said he is using his emergency powers to make the cuts mandatory. Martha Raddatz, host...
a Brown Wona t Cut Oil Industry Water Use Because of Tax Collection
2015-04-05 08:13:00| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Governor Jerry Brown signed an executive order Wednesday implementing California's first-ever mandatory water restrictions that require cities and towns to cut their water usage by 25 percent over the next nine months. But Brown will not cut oil company water use for fracking because the industry pays over $20 billion in state and local taxes.
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