July 2012
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LA City Council unanimously votes to ban all 762... →
kateoplis:
Under the ban, medical patients and their caregivers will be able to grow and share the drug in small groups of three people or less.
But the activists say most patients don’t have the time or skills to cultivate marijuana. One dispensary owner told the council that it would cost patients a minimum of $5,000 to grow marijuana at home.
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Police, protesters clash as tensions roil Anaheim →
As street melees erupt, council votes to seek federal probe of killings by officers.
Responding to the litigation, the Anaheim Police Assn. provided the first explanation from the five-year officer who shot Diaz on Saturday afternoon.
According to the police union, officers saw “the documented gang member” who was holding a “concealed object in his front waistband with both...
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“I was shown how fragile life was on Saturday. I saw the terror on bystanders’...”
– Jessica Redfield (real last name: Ghawi) was shot and killed last night at a midnight screening of ‘The Dark Knight Rises,’ along with 11 others when a gunman opened fire in a theater. The above is from her blog, written in June, after she narrowly escaped another senseless shooting at a mall in...
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Suppressing the vote, state by state →
Editorial: The evidence is overwhelming that recent photo ID laws are politically motivated.
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“The original idea was just being set up by married people, because married...”
– Louis C.K., in an interview for the Sunday Conversation.
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San Bernardino City Council votes to file for... →
San Bernardino is California’s third city in weeks to authorize a bankruptcy filing.
This part is, just, wow:
City Atty. James Penman said city budget officials had falsified documents presented to the mayor and council for 13 of the last 16 years, masking the city’s deficit spending.
“For the last 16 years the budget prepared for the council showed the city was in the...
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L.A. skid row cleanup nets nearly 5 tons of refuse →
Los Angeles skid row cleanup was prompted by a county report citing public health dangers in the area. Now for a maintenance plan.
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The biodefender that cries wolf →
zacharybehrens:
latimes:
The Department of Homeland Security’s BioWatch air samplers, meant to detect a terrorist biological attack, have been plagued by false alarms and other failures.
Worse, BioWatch cannot be counted on to detect a real attack, according to confidential government test results and computer modeling.
Another quote from this article that I think is important:
“It is...
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The biodefender that cries wolf →
The Department of Homeland Security’s BioWatch air samplers, meant to detect a terrorist biological attack, have been plagued by false alarms and other failures.
President George W. Bush announced the system’s deployment in his 2003 State of the Union address, saying it would “protect our people and our homeland.” Since then, BioWatch air samplers have been installed...
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Hiltzik: The young don't buy into propaganda of... →
Despite efforts to portray Social Security and Medicare as giveaways to undeserving seniors that rip off the young, some young people believe they must work with older people to make the programs work.
“Wall Street and everyone who crashed the world economy has a really strong incentive to get young folks who are struggling to blame older folks who are likewise struggling, and no one will...
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'Even from the across the street, you could see... →
So says Paul Zuckerman, the man who hired disgraced journalist Stephen Glass. Read our article on Glass, and tell us what you think: Stephen Glass, disgraced journalist, seeks California law license
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'As many as 4 out of 10 online reviews are phony... →
… according to a computer science professor who develops software to detect fake reviews. From today’s story on how Yelp is working to keep suspect reviews off their site.
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When there is a slow news day →
newscatgif:
New favorite Tumblr. (via)
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Roberts riles the right inside and outside the... →
Reports suggest he may have switched his vote to uphold Obama’s healthcare law on a legal point.
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Brown widow spiders 'taking over' in Southern... →
richardrushfield:
“That’s because unlike black widows, who like to crawl into cracks and under debris for shelter, brown widows like to hide out in people’s things. They gravitate toward the crannies underneath chairs and into those downward-facing recessed handles on garbage cans.”
— The LA Times just ruined ever touching anything again for the rest of my life for me.
Sorry…
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