I wonder who is paying "George Jackson" and "JoeGreen" to rip on this company? Seems like the "corruption" may be in their rationalizations rather than USST's idea. A lot of "environmental" organizations have been wrong over the past years, especially in waste disposal! How do you think we got to where we are now?? I no longer trust their judgments or their perspectives, and in my mind they may possibly be one of the biggest supporters of today's landfill and recycling monarchy. I think a project like USST is proposing is just what we, real Sacramentans, (not San Francisco activists) need to help our suffering economy, unstable public health, and to get rid of our title as the nation’s number one polluter as I’ve shamefully seen on planethazard.com - http://planethazard.com/phmapenv.aspx?mode=topten&area=national. In Sacramento, we have been so dependent on the old way of doing things with the companies and ideas that have only provided us with liabilities and deficits; it is time for a change! Yet change can be difficult in an industry where the guys who bury our trash, harm our environment and cover it all up with recycling, are the same guys that pay these so-called "environmental groups" and our local "politicians"! We need real change, and we can only do this by "truly, cleanly" recycling the un-recyclable; I believe what USST is proposing is it, and by doing these kinds of projects and facilities it will only bring our community more opportunities, and bring innovation to this prehistoric industry. In addition, this is something we can count on; we can’t count on hoping that our markets (Asia) will purchase our recycled cans and boxes in order to preserve our planet; look what’s happening now, our months and months worth of recycling is days away from being buried in a Nevada landfill; by the way, do you think we’re going to get a rebate for our recycling fees? Either way, Asia throws half of the stuff we ship to them in our “not so environmentally-friendly” ships in their e-waste infected landfills anyway. Where are the environmental and social groups on this one? The 21st century…and we're still burying waste. Are you serious? That is like throwing your dirty laundry under your bed, one way or another you’re going to find it and I can promise you that it will be much worse than it was when you put it there. All of this recycling, better packaging, and landfills are all just problems under the bed that will get worse unless we do something about them now. It’s interesting…we can send a man to the moon, land on time within a fraction of a second, but we can't keep our own planet clean? Or we just don't want to? Or is money more important? I applaud these guys (USST) for taking the initiative and for bringing this to our city, I hope they are not embarrassed by the actions of our politicians and I hope that our city government will wake up and realize what we are losing. I would really like to have our city lead for once. I’m tired of having our community be the forefront of criminal activity, economical degradation, environmental humiliation, biased journalism, unstable bureaucracy and corrupted interest groups. I think our city needs to revisit USST’s project to help our community and our people get back into the respectable light we once were in. Thank you for your posts David; I think this a great project!

I think our City needs BIG political changes, you simply can't have this many problems in the city and just blame the people. We definitely need stronger leadership, but we also need to have leadership that is much more aware of the politics that an old-fashioned city like Sacramento can muster up. Guys, I really hope that Kevin can do this because we have been led completely the other way for the past 8 years, just look at our results because that's one thing that is always truthful.

Yes, it is interesting how relevance depends on the state of the business delivering the story. That's why I usually find some media, in general, biased at best. These words, relevant or not, slowly shape our society, and whats more interesting is that we don't have to look too far, like SF, because we can find the very same biased evidence in our own SacBee. Sorry for going off on a tangent there; I don't think Rush is biased, just irrelevant :). Then again if it's just entertainment then all facts can be boring. I think it all just depends upon ourselves whether we decide to use it as fact or just to stretch our mind's "What if" muscle. Great comments guys, thanks for stretching mine.

Great article Lori, it's great to hear that these kids are still pursuing their dreams even in these difficult times.