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Posts by Kevin Knauss not related to health insurance or other categories, usually editorials, travel essays, food, pictures and maps.

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Retracing The California Central Railroad From Folsom To Roseville

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I’m a typical history nerd who daydreams while driving about old trains or historical events that took place on the same road I’m driving over. The daydreams turn obsessive when I’ve read and researched about certain historical events and I can almost recreate them in my mind. A good example is the path the California Central Railroad took from Folsom to Roseville, California, in 1861. I’ve driven and walked over so much of the rail grade that is accessible, and thought about its construction and daily operations, that I finally made a video about retracing the long forgotten railroad grade.

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Why is Folsom Dam Releasing So Much Water? Flood Protection

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Invariably, whenever the Bureau of Reclamation releases water stored behind Folsom Dam during the winter before the reservoir is full, people across the region accuse the Bureau of mismanagement, incompetence, and wasting water. The management of Folsom reservoir is complicated. But during the winter months, the main priority of Folsom Dam is flood control. That is why the dam was built in the first place.

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How I Wrote and Published My First Book

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In the absence of a writer’s personality I do have a curious mind, a desire to be creative, and an interest in sharing my work with other people. When I reviewed the amount of content I had produced pertaining to the history of the Folsom Lake region I figured it would make a good book. So I decided to write and publish a book.

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Hawaii Needs To Be Cleaned Up

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After my son took a geology course in his freshman year at Williams College, he wanted to see the volcano on Hawaii. So we planned a short little trip over the 2016 Christmas holiday. This was only my third trip to the island chain and I came away even more unimpressed about Hawaii than on previous trips.

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Thanks Donald For Crashing My Income

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I try to be pretty pragmatic when it comes to presidential elections. Regardless of the promises made by any candidate, we rarely see any real change in the U.S. with the election of a new president. However, Donald Trump ran on a platform to repeal and replace Obamacare. Since 90% of my income comes from enrollment generated by the Affordable Care Act, I am facing a drastic reduction of my income if Trump fulfills his promise.

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My People Ride In the Back of the Bus

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My people ride in the back of the bus
My people struggle to pay their bills
My people don’t want to be labeled
My people are the artists whose great works are not recognized
My people are those who don’t conform

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Microsoft Windows Updates Stop Computer Internet Wi-Fi From Working

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When your Wi-Fi internet connection stops working the world seems to have unfairly crashed on your computer or mobile device. Every time my internet connection would stop working for no apparent reason on my Vaio notebook computer I always pointed my finger at my internet service provider and their lousy service. Unfortunately, one sharp customer service representative at Consolidated Communications helped me determine that it was my computer that was shutting down our household Wi-Fi.

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Converting Backyard Acorns Into A Thanksgiving Side Dish

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With just four Live Oaks (Quercus agrifolia nee) in my backyard, I will usually rake up 2 to 3 wheelbarrow loads of acorns every fall. Until I started reading about Maidu Native Americans that lived in the Granite Bay area of California, I hadn’t considered acorns as a food source. After I had documented numerous Native American acorn grinding-hole sites around Folsom Lake, I figured that I should try and prepare some acorn mush that was a staple of the Native American diet prior to the gold rush of the 1850s.

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The Great Health Savings Account Scam

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Under the new GOP presidency and congress Obamacare looks to be repealed and the replacement to emphasize Health Savings Accounts. The economic rationale for Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) is that when consumers pay for their health care out of the accounts, they will drive down the cost of health care by favoring the least cost procedures. Unfortunately, HSAs without price transparency for the consumer does nothing to bring lower prices or efficiency to the market place. HSAs in our current market place are just scams.

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Repealing Obamacare And The Fate Of One Health Insurance Agent

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For the first time in my life I can commiserate with people who are losing their livelihood because of a government action. Just as some workers have been displaced because the government outlawed a product, changed an environmental regulation, or enacted a trade deal that smothered their industry, I too am on the receiving end of government legislation that will decimate my income. If Obamacare is repealed and the subsidies that make health insurance affordable for millions of Americans ceases, I will lose 90% of my clients.

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