Fri 8 Aug 2008
Clean Out your Closet and Return the Books! During County Library’s Fine-Free Week beginning Monday
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Clean out your closet and return those long overdue books, DVDs, magazines and library materials during the County of Los Angeles Public Library’s Fine-Free Week campaign. The County Library is offering borrowers a chance to return overdue library materials and clear their library accounts. (more…)
Setting: The Bill and Hillary Clinton house in Chappaqua. The curtains are drawn to keep the Republican neighbors from looking inside. Hillary the Shrew is kneeling on the floor, editing a photo album of her 2008 presidential campaign. Former President Bill Clinton is dusting off the statues in the living room and hall. 
Several City Council members responded via email to a request that the City follow proper legal process in reviewing and allowing public comment on the Henry Mayo Hospital expansion plans. Community members and activists sent in letters to “request the Public have time for full and complete review of the G&L/Henry Mayo Master Plan.” 
California lawmakers frustrated over the state budget impasse pointed fingers Thursday and accused each other of failing to get serious about closing the $15.2 billion deficit. A rancorous debate erupted on the Assembly floor after Republicans attempted to bring the Democrats’ tax-raising budget plan to a vote that surely would have failed. 
Six Flags Inc. Chief Executive Mark Shapiro looked up at Goliath, a 200-foot-tall roller coaster just outside of Atlanta, as riders roared downhill at 70 miles per hour. “Nice ride,” he noted. “But we’ll never get our return on investment with it,” reports the Wall Street Journal. 
The following is an open letter to Los Angeles City Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa from Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich in response to his letter requesting reconsideration of the Board of Supervisors vote to reject the MTA’s ½ cent proposal: 
A strange, metal brew lies buried deep within Jupiter and Saturn, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, and in London. The study, just published the online edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy 
