Auburn Journal – Placer County is pumping money into a North Auburn sewer treatment plant upgrade while seeking federal funding for a pricey regional wastewater pipeline from North Auburn to Lincoln.

No decision has been made to commit to either the $133 million Lincoln tie-in or the $88.5 million Joeger Road plant upgrade.

But Jim Durfee, county facility services director, told supervisors at Tuesday’s board meeting that moving ahead on a no-bid contract with design firm Owen Psomas would signal to water-quality officials that efforts were continuing to move the North Auburn plant into compliance with new standards.

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Inside Bay Area – Not Terribly long ago all that was wrong with Wall Street was embodied in the character Gordon Gekko as portrayed by actor Michael Douglas in the smash hit movie, "Wall Street."

For those who missed the film, Gekko was a suave, sophisticated, amoral and insensitive worshipper of money, lots and lots of money, to be fleeced without compunction or concern for legal consequences from unsuspecting sheep who invested in his manipulative schemes. In other words, he was a sociopath who adequately resembled nothing so much as the fictitious monsters created by the likes of Frank Norris, Lincoln Steffens and Ida Tarbell for their early 20th century muckraking exposes about the exploitive evils of American enterprise.

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