Nevada County’s Assemblyman and Republican Leader, Brian Dahle, says Governor Brown’s State-of-the-State address doesn’t adequately address the financial plight of the working class. He says while California is on the verge of becoming the fifth largest economy in the world, the state’s skyrocketing cost of living and highest-in-the-nation poverty rate proves there’s a lot of work to do. That includes reducing energy and housing costs. Dahle says the state is producing too much solar power…

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But Dahle says he has seen some bipartisanship at the State Capitol regarding reducing the wildfire danger, especially fuel loads in the forests…

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Dahle has been pushing, for years, construction of co-generation plants in forests, where thinning has taken place. He says that sequesters carbon, also helping boost the water supply and protect wildlife habitat.