Opinion

   After languishing for six years, the Nakoma Resort and Golf Club at Gold Mountain has finally been bought out of bankruptcy. Michael Schoff, principal of the Schomac Group, Inc., which also owns the Feather River Inn, succeeded where others had failed.

    A bill to simply require state agencies to weigh the impacts of new regulations on California jobs and post the information online was effectively killed by Democrats April 17, on a party-line vote in its first committee hearing.
  

 "After meeting with countless business owners who have left California for other states, we know that costly state regulations are driving jobs away. We've essentially handed the power to impose crippling state regulations over to bureaucrats who have never run a business or created a job in their life," said Assemblyman Dan Logue (R - Linda).

National media report Saturday mail delivery may go the way of the milk wagon, and that a wide majority of Americans think that's OK.

Hold on.

Congress must act first, and that is not likely to happen soon. Some Congressional leaders worry about trimming mail service, even if only 35 percent of people surveyed by Gallup last summer disapprove.