IBEW Independent Expenditure: $650K and growingThe City Planning Department of Los Angeles is currently mulling over the idea of allowing Accessory Dwelling Units (i.e. ADU’s, aka granny flats) to be built in single family residential neighborhoods zoned as R-1’s. ADU’s are living spaces usually built behind the home that homeowners are allowed to rent out.
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The problem is an increasing number of bar patrons getting in their cars intoxicated and driving [...]
Three flu viruses may have mutated into one seriously nasty beastie with over 1 million infected, mostly in Ukraine. It appears to be spreading. Poland wants the EU to take action and the EU president agrees. Neighboring countries are now doing health checks on everyone attempting to cross from [...]
So reads a t-shirt often worn by Adam Savage, one of the two original starts of the Discovery Channel's series Mythbusters, which I have slavishly watched since the very first episode (I think that was the episode where they busted the myth of the rocket-propelled car launching [...]
In LA gets ugly:
As Los Angeles Unified contemplates turning more schools into charters, parents in a heavily immigrant neighborhood received an anonymous flier written in Spanish: “DO NOT SIGN ANY PETITIONS FOR A CHARTER SCHOOL BECAUSE YOU COULD BE DEPORTED.”
More here.
Community groups and Los Angeles Unified officials on Tuesday condemned an anonymous flyer handed to Latino parents that threatened them with deportation if they supported plans to convert their neighborhood school to a charter. United Teachers Los Angeles denies responsibility,...
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Today, the House of Representatives passed the aptly named SqueakerCare bill... "aptly named" for two reasons:
It was introduced, and the favorable vote extorted, by Squeaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Haight-Ashbury, 100%);It squeaked by with 220 Ayes to 215 Nays... 218 being the bare minimum needed for passage.
The bill [...]
Residents for Responsible Desalination has lost a most inspiring leader, Dr. Jan Vandersloot, who was a founding board member of R4RD. He passed away on Wednesday, fighting for a better environment to the last moment.
On Wednesday he attended and spoke at a Coastal Commission hearing on the HB [...]
I picture Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Haight-Ashbury, 100%) writhing and twisting in frustration; with all those Democrats, surely she can scrape together 218 to vote for SqueakerCare!
Surely not, at least not yet:
House Democrats acknowledged they don't yet have the votes to pass a sweeping overhaul of the' [...]
Ex-neighbors of the Army psychiatrist reported to have shot 13 people to death at Fort Hood, Texas recall him as a nice and giving person.
** CALIFORNIA 2010: THE DEMOCRATIC FIELD HAS BEEN CLEARED.
Lloyd: What do you think the chances are of a guy like you and a [...]
