NEWS
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- September 24, 2004 |
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on
some issues of interest to the community policing and neighborhood
activist
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of the information available to the community policing and neighborhood
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From
the LA Times:
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Gov. Signs Bills for Air, Coast
Two dozen measures he enacts will extend smog checks, limit fishing
and create a conservancy to protect the Sierra, among other things.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-arnold24sep24,1,4739301.story?coll=la-headlines-california
Hawthorne
Hospital to Shut Doors
Robert F. Kennedy Medical Center cites financial problems for closure
Dec. 31. It marks the loss of the sixth ER in L.A. County this year.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-hospital24sep24,1,1149861.story?coll=la-headlines-california
Screeners
Find Gun in Bag of Antiterror Chief
The LAPD's John Miller says he forgot about the weapon. Bratton
calls incident embarrassing.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-miller24sep24,1,7688426.story?coll=la-headlines-california
Divergent
Groups Remain Opposed to Ambassador Plan
Some want the hotel razed for K-12 school; others would like to
see more of it preserved.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-ambassador24sep24,1,7470117.story?coll=la-headlines-california
Board's Hospital
Meetings Probed
D.A. reacts to concerns that supervisors may have violated the open
meeting law when they discussed closing trauma unit at King/Drew.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-kingdrew24sep24,1,6467470.story?coll=la-headlines-california
MTA to Borrow
$1.1Billion to Speed Up Delayed Projects
Hit hard by state budget cutbacks, the Metropolitan Transportation
Authority plans to borrow more than $1.1 billion over the next 10
years to jump-start freeway and rail projects throughout Los Angeles
County.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-mta24sep24,1,3196195.story?coll=la-headlines-california
Church Can't
Join Suit to Fight Abuse Law
A federal judge rejected a plea Thursday by the Los Angeles Archdiocese
to join a constitutional challenge to the state law allowing hundreds
of people to sue the Roman Catholic Church for decades-old child
molestation.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-priest24sep24,1,3878154.story?coll=la-headlines-california
New Guidelines
Will Address Homelessness
A Los Angeles County task force Thursday approved a broad set of
guidelines intended to move an estimated 80,000 homeless people
off the streets and into housing within 10 years.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-homeless24sep24,1,2006426.story?coll=la-headlines-california
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From
the Daily News:
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Gridlock
for HOV lanes?
Transit experts concerned about impact of new hybrid-vehicle law
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200~20954~2422963,00.html
Phone rates
will go higher
Firm can charge rivals 19% more or this combo
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200%257E20954%257E2422700,00.html
LAPD official
sets off alert
Terrorism czar has gun at LAX or this combo
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200%257E20954%257E2422947,00.html
Nuez relents
on licenses
Speaker says he'd allow special designation
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200%257E20954%257E2422610,00.html
Plating firm
charged in pollution crackdown
An Atwater Village metal-plating company was charged Thursday with
polluting groundwater with chromium 6 -- the first case in a new
crackdown on firms suspected of tainting the aquifer supplying the
city's drinking water.
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200%257E20954%257E2422847,00.html
Court refuses
to halt work on busway project
The state Supreme Court on Thursday refused to overturn a lower-court
order that requires the MTA to do a new environmental study on the
San Fernando Valley Orange Line busway and also turned down a separate
request by opponents to halt construction of the project.
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200%257E20954%257E2422959,00.html
California
locks up most '3-strikers'
WASHINGTON -- California imprisons more felons under its "three
strikes, you're out" law than almost every other three-strikes
state combined, a report by an advocacy group found Thursday.
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200%257E20954%257E2423082,00.html
Trauma-center
process probed
The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced Thursday
that it is investigating whether county supervisors broke the state's
open meeting law by reaching a decision behind closed doors to close
a South Los Angeles hospital's trauma center.
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200%257E20954%257E2422588,00.html
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From
other sources:
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From Mayor Hahn
Mayor Hahn Announces General Services Department Wins Award
http://www.lacity.org/mayor/myrpress/mayormyrpress27423526_09232004.pdf
From Senator
Feinstein
Senator Feinstein Calls for Careful Congressional Oversight of
the Patriot Act
http://www.senate.gov/~feinstein/04Releases/r-patriotact-hrg.htm
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