April 2007
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Sun 29 Apr 2007
The fallow deer of Point Reyes National Seashore are regal animals, tall and muscular with spotted fur and antlers like moose. They’re easy to spot on the meadows and hillsides of the park, grazing in large herds. But they don’t belong there.
They are invaders from central Asia, introduced three generations ago for the benefit of hunters. Scientists fear they are driving out native black-tailed deer that have been there for centuries but could vanish within our lifetime.
Read it here: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/04/29/MNGI3PHO3U1.DTL
Sun 29 Apr 2007
The biography of a man who believed that uproar was the music of capitalism. Much honored as an economic prophet, Joseph Schumpeter has had to wait half a century after his death for this splendid full-dress biography covering his ideas, life and times. In 1983 Forbes pronounced him a better guide to the tumultuous world economy than John Maynard Keynes. In 1986 J.K. Galbraith described him as “the most sophisticated conservative of this century”. In 2000 Business Week ran an article about him to which it gave the title “America’s hottest economist died fifty years ago”. There are Schumpeter lectures, Schumpeter societies and Schumpeter prizes.
Read it here: http://www.economist.com/books/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9070610
Sat 28 Apr 2007
Even before nine Republican presidential candidates agreed to meet for their first debate Thursday at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley, Calif., they were competing for who best fits the mantle of the iconic late president. But expect the Reaganesque preening to be laid on thick with next week’s gathering.
Read it here: http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB117772309669185595-sHzBIbqTSSMIysedJEFq8psRiHQ_20080427.html?mod=tff_main_tff_top
Sat 28 Apr 2007
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“Boston is still in the pits…in Florida it’s like death takes a holiday…Las Vegas is now terrible…Michigan may be a situation where it doesn’t come back.”
Robert Toll, chief executive of Toll Brothers, one of America’s biggest builder of luxury homes, has a droll style. But his comments at this week’s Milken Institute Global Conference, a gathering of 3,000 financiers and businesspeople in Beverly Hills, left little doubt about his view of the state of the housing market. True, there were one or two bright spots—the New York market was “phenomenal”; Connecticut had “got a lot better”; Texas was “good”—but Mr. Toll’s overall tour was pretty bleak.
Read it here: http://www.economist.com/world/na/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9090220
Sat 28 Apr 2007
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Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich joined Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Southland air quality officials to discuss reducing the impact of air pollution on children with asthma at the South Coast Air Quality Management District’s “Asthma Is a Small World” international conference at the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim. (more…)
Sat 28 Apr 2007
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For 90 minutes Friday, James Stichter knew two suspected bank robbers were holed up inside his detached garage, but couldn’t reach police to tell them reports the Daily News.
Shortly after 9 a.m., the gunmen had hit a Washington Mutual Bank in Stevenson Ranch. After a 13-mile high-speed chase, they ditched their car and ended up in the 50-year-old’s backyard.
Read it here: http://www.dailynews.com/santaclarita/ci_5771315
Sat 28 Apr 2007
When Democrats gathered at their candidate-rich California state convention five years ago, a lone blogger from Berkeley was the first, and only, one of his kind to apply for media credentials to cover the events.
Today, an army has arrived in the wake of Markos Moulitsas Zúniga, founder of Daily Kos — one of the nation’s most highly trafficked Web logs, which boasts about 600,000 daily readers.
Read it here: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/04/28/MNGF2PHDCO1.DTL
Sat 28 Apr 2007
The Interior Department will announce a proposal Monday to allow oil and gas drilling in federal waters near Virginia that are currently off-limits and permit new exploration in Alaska’s Bristol Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, according to people who have seen or been told about drafts of the plan reports the Washington Post.
The department issued a news release yesterday that was lacking details but said that it had finished a five-year plan that will include a “major proposal for expanded oil and natural gas development on the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf.” Department officials declined to describe the plan.
Read it here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/27/AR2007042701611.html?hpid=topnews
Sat 28 Apr 2007
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The US economy suffered a serious loss of momentum in the first three months of this year, new figures revealed on Friday, as growth fell to 1.3 per cent, its lowest in four years reports the Financial Times.
The annualized growth rate fell a full half-point short of market expectations. However, after an initial sharp response, financial markets recovered as investors took comfort in more detailed data suggesting that the underlying trajectory of the US economy was closer to 2 per cent growth.
Read it here: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/09800924-f4e0-11db-b748-000b5df10621,dwp_uuid=5aedc804-2f7b-11da-8b51-00000e2511c8.html
Fri 27 Apr 2007
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For the 24 hour period of Thursday, April 26th, Santa Clarita Sheriff Station Personnel issued approximately 44 citations and warnings for traffic, parking and other related traffic offenses including misdemeanors and infractions. Deputies responded to 9 traffic collisions or related incidents.
Station personnel arrested and booked, or field released, 11 adults and detained 17 juveniles on 6 felony and 22 misdemeanor primary charges as summarized below:
Thursday - April 26, 2007 - 12:53 a.m. - Newhall: (more…)
Fri 27 Apr 2007
A flock of small jets took flight from Washington Thursday, each carrying a Democratic presidential candidate to South Carolina for the first debate of the political season reports the New York Newsday.
For Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama, Chris Dodd and Joe Biden, it was wheels up shortly after they voted in favor of legislation requiring that U.S. troops begin returning home from Iraq in the fall.
Read it here: http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-campaign-planes,0,4666247,print.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines
Fri 27 Apr 2007
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Twenty months into the housing decline, some property owners are taking on a role they never expected: Landlord.
A new benchmark study of 300 landlords that will be released tomorrow shows that nearly one out of five landlords is accidental and didn’t intend to rent the property out when they purchased it. The online survey was done by Monogram Research for Completelandlord.com, which is targeted to the estimated 10 million small and medium-sized residential landlords in the U.S.
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