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	<description>Vote &#34;Yes&#34; on C!</description>
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		<title>Sun-Star: Big developers/farmers &#8220;No&#8221; vs. local farmers &#8220;Yes&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Oct 2010 14:34:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Land-use measure on Tuesday&#8217;s ballot pits slow-growth advocates against developers, property rights groups. By JONAH OWEN LAMB The fight over Merced County&#8217;s Save Farmland initiative &#8212; Measure C &#8212; has gotten expensive and dirty. The controversial initiative has created a divide in the farming community, heightened fears of a threat to private property, spawned misleading information and spread rumors that developers are bankrolling the measure&#8217;s defeat. Read more: http://www.mercedsunstar.com/2010/10/30/1631470/measure-c-vote-drives-wedge-in.html]]></description>
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		<title>Sun-Star: Measure C shouldn&#8217;t thwart UC Merced community</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 18:47:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Annexation, which takes time, is likely outcome for land adjacent to campus. By JAMIE OPPENHEIM Measure C, the Save Farmland initiative on Tuesday&#8217;s ballot, could affect the future development of the University Community, a mixed-use development serving UC Merced students and faculty. Or it may not affect it at all. Read more: www.mercedsunstar.com/2010/10/27/1626905/measure-c-shouldnt-thwart-uc-merced.html]]></description>
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		<title>Jean Okuye, Robby Avila: Measure C Brings Back Balance</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 16:09:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Op-Ed Published in Sun-Star. To read the article at the Sun-Star website, click here. Do you like what you see in Merced County? It turns out, few do. Empty houses, vacant land and stalled development have consumed our farmland. Our cities have suffered for it. Yet, year after year, we have continued to face opposition from supervisors each time we take a stand to protect our water and farmland. Change is needed for the health of our communities and the future of agriculture, the No. 1 industry in Merced County. That change is Measure C. We need Measure C to bridge the wide gap between the citizens, who overwhelmingly support agriculture, and our Board of Supervisors, who have failed to make the right decisions for our county&#8217;s future. The divide between the citizens and supervisors is clear when we look at the general plan update, which guides how we will grow in the future. Citizens spoke overwhelmingly in favor of a plan with increased density for cities and protection of agricultural land. Fresh on the heels of the highly-praised Hilmar plan, a new direction seemed on the horizon for Merced County. However, Supervisors voted for a &#8220;new towns&#8221; approach instead, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sun-Star: Survey Shows Merced County Voters Supporting Farmland Initiative</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 15:54:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To read on the Sun-Star website, click here. By JONAH OWEN LAMB A majority of Merced County voters said they would vote for a slow growth initiative in November &#8212; Measure C &#8212; and that the Board of Supervisors has failed to control growth responsibly in the past. That, at least, is a summary of a Measure C opposition research survey obtained by the Sun-Star. Read more: www.mercedsunstar.com/2010/10/25/1624145/survey-shows-merced-county-voters.html]]></description>
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		<title>Sun-Star: Three other California counties – what happened?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 01:22:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To read on the Sun-Star website, click here. By JONAH OWEN LAMB The battle rages over Measure C in Merced County, but for three other California counties it&#8217;s ground that&#8217;s already been tilled. Read more: www.mercedsunstar.com/2010/10/28/1628441/measure-c-three-other-california.html]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 13:15:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<link>http://savefarmland.org/left-front/about-measure-c</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 13:04:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Save jobs Agriculture supports 35% of our jobs, year after year. Measure C prioritizes ag/commercial/industrial again. Save taxes Rural subdivisions cost $2 for every $1 generated. Housing in the cities pays its own way. Save home values We have enough empty houses and lots for 30 years, developers are still buying up farmland for new towns. Save our way of life Do you like where our county is headed? Where will future generations’ food come from? Take back government to preserve our quality of life. Proven policy Similar measures in other counties are so successful they have been re-enacted by voters for decades, with strong support from city councils and supervisors. Measure C allows for farmer and low-income housing.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Family Farmers&#8221; are Developers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2010 15:40:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our official campaign opposition, the Merced County Family Farmer Coalition Against Measure C &#8211; 2010, has reared its head and surprise! is funded by anything but local family farmers. The group&#8217;s most recent financial filing shows over $10,000 is from addresses outside Merced County, including development interests in Berkeley, San Jose and Stanislaus County. Some of the most ardent developers/opponents to the Save Farmland Initiative have not even put their own names on the filing. This group of &#8220;local family farmers&#8221; has also enlisted the help of an outside political consultant from Stockton (Strategic Research), an outside web developer from Encinitas (Andrei Ivanoff), and even an outside letter-writer from San Diego (Merced Sun-Star 10/7/10) who espouses the repeated lie about loss of property rights. (It&#8217;s a fear tactic. Measure C changes no zoning laws, so it changes no property rights.) They don&#8217;t even spend their fat campaign cash on local jobs in Merced County! Don&#8217;t let them steal this election with all of their money and dirty tactics. They have torn down signs, lied about being agents for local property owners, and pretended to be us &#8211; the &#8220;Yes&#8221; on C campaign &#8211; to local media, trying to trick them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mark Arax to speak at Measure C Fundraiser</title>
		<link>http://savefarmland.org/uncategorized/mark-arax-to-speak-at-measure-c-fundraiser</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 10:02:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thursday, September 30, at 6 p.m. Call (209) 722-0912 for location information. Eight-time Pulitzer nominee Mark Arax will be the featured speaker at a fundraising dinner for Measure C, the Save Farmland Initiative. Musical stylings by famed singer-songwriter Nancy Cassidy will set the backdrop for this very special evening in an exquisite east Merced County setting in the country. The two valley-raised artists of national acclaim are contributing their noteworthy talents to support Measure C because they both have a deep love of their native land. The event includes dinner with the $20 minimum requested donation to the campaign. Mark Arax is co-author of the bestselling “The King of California” and the author of “In My Father’s Name” as well as the award winning “West of the West: Dreamers, Builders and Killers in the Golden State”. He is an acclaimed former writer for the Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times Magazine and Boston Globe. Nancy Cassidy is a singer/songwriter whose melodic and soulful voice has been described as a blend of Tracy Chapman and Joan Baez. Her 30-years of noteworthy music experiences include a song beamed up to astronauts during a shuttle flight and a song covered by Bruce Springsteen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Supervisors are Developers&#8217; Lap Dogs.</title>
		<link>http://savefarmland.org/letters-to-the-editor/supervisors-are-developers-lap-dogs</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 09:33:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thank you for bringing attention to Merced County&#8217;s efforts to derail Measure C, the Save Farmland Initiative. Our Board of Supervisors&#8217; recent 5-0 lap-dog-to-the-developers approval of the Villages of Laguna San Luis, where the developers of the project were given a free pass without having to abide by our new General Plan, shows the extent to which this group of elected officials will go to allow unneeded massive development. Yes, our housing inventory is laughable. With 44,000 foreclosures in the county, 22,000 empty lots on our unincorporated land, plus thousands and thousands more lots already with residential zoning in place in our cities, Merced County is awash in a suburban nightmare of falling home prices. This is why we need Measure C, because they can still do more harm!  For instance, I&#8217;m excited about High Speed Rail. But I&#8217;m afraid of how willing our Supervisors are to approve more speculative housing on our farmland. Letting the people of Merced County take control of this runaway train makes sense purely because of our county supervisors&#8217; history. Their plan is more housing, 2,500 acres of more homes with Measure D.  Measure C is our chance to correct what the past 10+ years [...]]]></description>
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