News Articles - 2008

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• Quarry air monitoring firm, plan, presented
  
  Village News - Issue 50, Volume 12 by Tim O'Leary • DECEMBER 11, 2008 Rainbow and Fallbrook leaders are breathing easier due to a mining company’s decision to test whether its Rosemary’s Mountain operations expose area residents to dust, diesel fumes or other potential airborne hazards.
  
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• There's hope on the horizon
  
  Rick Neugebauer
  Vice president, RTN Development
  Murrieta
  
  I attended the recent I-215 South Corridor Economic Development Summit and was thoroughly impressed with the local options we have to reduce traffic congestion and protect our economy. The message was clear, our past dependence on distant sources of building materials just isn't going to work anymore; our freeways are too congested, our air is too dirty and long-distance trucking is getting too expensive. We need local sources for construction materials.
  
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• Granite employees give back to community
  
  Reno Gazette Journal, STAFF REPORT • SEPTEMBER 23, 2008 Employees of Granite Construction Company, along with friends and family members, gathered Aug. 23 to donate their time and effort to the improvement of the Sparks business district.
  Granite Construction hosted its third annual community cleanup along Glendale Avenue between Rock Boulevard and Galletti Way in Sparks.
  
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• Environmentalism is the real problem:
  The Californian, August 10, 2008
  
  Let's build an animal bridge across the freeway and give the quarry land to the Santa Margarita preserve. Never heard of the preserve?
  
  Let's pollute the air and congest the freeways by shipping sand and gravel in from other areas instead of having a quarry in our back yard. Let's give those jobs to other areas. After all, isn't that what we have welfare for? Isn't it more important that the mountain lions and bobcats on the west side of the freeway be allowed to feed on the coyotes and small children of Temecula east of the freeway?
  
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• Health Risks of Liberty Quarry
  
  Letter by Kristi Rutz-Robbins, Ph.D.
  
  Murrieta Bugle, August 2008
  
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• Aggregate supply needed close by
  

  LTE - Californian - July 29, 2008
  
  I was disappointed to read state Assembly candidate Grey Frandsen's letter (July 22) opposing Liberty Quarry. Apparently, he has not spent much time driving up and down Interstates 15 and 215 with their endless freight train of rock trucks importing aggregate from Corona, San Bernardino, and other areas. Trying to dodge bouncing rocks is an art, one I have not mastered.
  
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• Candidate ignores experts on quarry
  

  Fri Jul 25 2008
  Letters to the Editor
  Californain

  Mr. Grey Frandsen's July 22 letter to the editor, "Regional vision without a quarry," indicates exactly what is wrong with our region and the politicians who want to be elected. Too little vision and blinders to the real problems and solutions. He wants to represent us, yet he ignores the state agencies that are telling us: 1) We have a critical lack of aggregate reserves, and 2) Local sources of aggregate have economic and environmental benefits.
  
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• Quarry Supporters Mischaracterized
  By BOB KOWELL - Member of Friends of Liberty Quarry | Thursday, May 29, 2008 10:23 AM PDT
  
  I was one of four people who went to show the press that there were two sides of the quarry issue at the human "NO QUARRY" sign display at Park Birdsall Park on May 4.
  
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• Hard hats not needed as Whitehead students spend a day exploring construction equipment By Guy Clifton
  gclifton@rgj.com How do you make 450 kids smile? The answers at Jerry Whitehead Elementary School included an air horn and some large construction equipment courtesy of Granite Construction Company of Sparks.
  
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• Praise Inland quarry owner for fighting global warming
  
  The Press-Enterprise
  March 13, 2008
  
  Hardly a day goes by without the sounding of the warning bell about global warming and climate change. In fact, although some controversy over global warming remains, construction industry leaders are joining the many state and local governments that are starting to take action on their own.
  
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• For the 5 ^th straight year, Granite was named to FORTUNE’S List of 100 Best Companies to Work For
  
  Granite Construction Incorporated (NYSE:GVA) has been named to FORTUNE’s annual “100 Best Companies to Work For” list.  Granite ranked No. 74 on the overall list of 100 companies. Granite's listing will appear in FORTUNE’s February 4, 2008, issue, on newsstands and at www.fortune.com. Granite has been named to the list every year since 2004.
  

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