May 2011 Archives
Commentary:
Just as they say that the pen is mightier than the gun, I know that a woman's voice can break a man's grip.
LA Vitamin Report:
7th Street is the first major road targeted for bicycle lane construction under L.A.'s new bike plan. The success of the route could be a bellwether for how the rest of the plan goes forward.
Commentary:
They say that "fracking" will give us cheap, clean energy but its deleterious impact on public health and the environment makes it as dirty as coal, as messy as oil.
Commentary:
You'd think that any plan to build a more pedestrian-centered, compact neighborhood in the Coachella Valley would be a sensible and ecologically wholesome move. You'd be wrong.
Government:
A little-known city service that provided extra attention to parking ticket complaints was shut down Friday, but officials want the services back in some form or another.
Movie Miento:
At around this month sixty years ago, the horror movie actor Vincent Price took a drive to the eastside - maybe cruising down Whittier Blvd with the radio blaring - to give a graduation speech at East L.A. College.
Commentary:
You should go and see what Dr. Gumbiner put in his 20,000-square-foot former roller skating rink in Long Beach.
Commentary:
Conservative businessman Craig Huey achieved a political upset by finishing as one of the top two voter-getters in the special election to fill former Rep. Jane Harman's set. How did he do it?
LA Vitamin Report:
The end of the world might be this weekend. Are you as prepared as the CDC?
!['Tearjerkers' and Gadflies Benefit From City's Gold Card Desk [Updated]](http://www.kcet.org/updaily/socal_focus/assets_c/2011/05/los-angeles-gold-card-parking-ticket-thumb-100x100-14221.jpg)
Government:
Complaining to city council members or sharing a sob story may have been the best way to get gold-card treatment under the city's secretive parking citation hearing program, at least according to the picture emerging from internal e-mails obtained by SoCal Connected.
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