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[ November 2, 2014 ] November Update:
It's been a busy fall! Here's some new things for this month.
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New companion: Toucan
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John O'Lantern has a gift for all! Do not get too attached though, this special companion will slowly be eaten throughout November, and eventually disappear.
A new island is available to explore.
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[ September 24, 2014 ] Quick Reset:
It has come to our attention that there are no ranches left on Pinto again. We are doing a small reset to just add some more ranches. Hopefully that will be enough for a bit. If not, we'll plan on adding more for the next reset.
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[ September 10, 2014 ] September Game Update:
New breed: Egyptian Arabian
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New island open and ready for exploring!
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[ July 21, 2014 ] July Game Update:
New breed: Sugarbush Draft Horse
Gypsy Vanner now comes in more colors.
Two new quests
A new, rare companion has been added. It cannot be purchased in stores and only two are around at one time. Good luck!
New isles added. The only currently explored isle is Horn Isle where quite a few new ranches were built. Take care in choosing your new ranch. Location plays a large part in price!
-Joe and Miranda
[ June 10, 2014 ] June Update:
New breed: Vlaamperd
New companion: Puli
One new quest
New very expensive tack set available!
The coloration of the Iberian Warmblood has been slightly altered.
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[ May 4, 2014 ] HI1 Birthday Update!:
New breed: Carloina Marsh Tacky
New companion: Border Collie
Three new quests
New very expensive tack set available
Norwegian Fjord now comes in more colors
Birthday Tokens can be found on the grass. Sell them to the store to make a little money. They'll be around for at least a month.
Thank you to all of those that are still playing and enjoying the game!
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[ March 23, 2014 ] March Game Update:
New breed: Yakut
New companion: Sunset Moth
The Easter Bunny has a gift for all! Do not get too attached though, this special companion will slowly be eaten throughout May, and eventually disappear.
Five new quests.
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Union Contract Forces "Rubber Room" Teachers to be Paid Millions
When are unions going to be banned completely from the public sector, forever? Union contracts merely protect their members from competition and drain taxpayers. I don't see one iota of improved service anywhere when dealing with government on any level. Do you?
The attitude on these people too – it's getting worse as the pay goes up. Them vs. Us has taken over whenever you're forced to deal with unionized public employees – and why not? They know they aren't getting fired even if they sexually assault your child in New York schools, apparently.
Okay, here's the disclaimer – I want to get it out of the way so my liberal friend's eyes don't bleed:
I have no problem at all with private-sector unions and in fact, I've been a card-carrying Teamster since I was 19. So shut-up, this is about Public-Sector Unions. Hell, even Jimmy Carter knew what they would lead to when he signed into law the Civil Service Reform Act (CSRA) in 1978.
He wasn't forced to by evil Republicans either – there was a majority Democrat House and Senate at the time and the idea was to give Federal employees the right not to join any labor organization if they didn't want to.
If they wanted to join one they could, but any disputes would now be handled by an arbitration board – not the unions – because… well, duh.
Why? I would think that would be obvious – but okay:
If Federal employees are forced to join a union and those union dues are spread around to politicians, who then turn around and negotiate better deals for that union – then someday that union will bankrupt the States and the entire Country. Sound familiar?
There's also in the case of Teacher's Unions, the problem of money not going to the actual education of kids and perverts being allowed to sexually assault and rape children with pay and benefits – even when they're caught. Case in point:
In New York, three of the city's most notorious "rubber room" teachers have been paid more than $1 million each for over the past ten years to not work. Not in classrooms – not anywhere – courtesy of a union that won't find them guilty of anything, won't fire them or even let us tar and feather these miscreants for the sexual misconduct, sexual assault, or any number of sex crimes that landed these folks in the Rubber Room in the first place.
"Rubber Rooms" are empty classrooms where teachers who are deemed not fit to be around kids are sequestered to await some sort of fate or decision as to whatever they're accused of. Because of tenure and protections in union contracts, it's almost impossible to get rid of these teachers entirely and so they sit and do "administrative" work instead of teach.
One of them, 54-year-old Angel Salazar, makes $100,049 a year — plus pension and health benefits — not to teach. Although believe me, you wouldn't want him near your kid for any reason.
He's a scumbag who improperly touched two girls, made sexual comments, assaulted a young student by pressing his erection against her… Should I go on?
Okay, he told the girl he "loved her" and wanted to marry her constantly as well. Of course the union farce of an investigation dismissed the case because the victim "wasn't credible." Funny how they stuck him in a "Rubber Room" – yet they dismissed the case. This means he gets paid for nothing.
James Rampulla makes $86k per year in his rubber room for giving a 14-year-old student innapropriate expensive gifts, exchanging hundreds of private texts, let him drive his car, etc.
Even though some texts to the 14-year-old boy said inappropriate things like; "I love you,'' Rampulla was found not guilty. Pay the man. "Hey, but what if this was just a caring, human, teacher who felt love for.." Oh, shut up – you damn sure know what this evil pri*k was up to.
Aryeh Eller was removed and put in a rubber room at Hillcrest High in Queens in 1999, after confessing to sexually harassing numerous female students, but guess what?
That's right – Eller worked just one year as a full-time teacher in New York, but has pulled down $1 million for 13 years of doing nothing.
I'm not going to continue with more of these proclivities – you get the picture: These are sociopaths preying on your children and getting paid even after they're caught; and it's a public union – the one your daddy Carter warned you about – which is responsible.
Ronald Reagan gets all the vitriol when it comes to union-busting because of the high profile (and illegal) Air Traffic Controller Strike early in his presidency and the fact that the liberal press hates Republicans – especially President Reagan.
Reagan's policies are not what caused the big decline in union membership over the last 30 years. It's primarily the result of Democrat Jimmy Carter and the de-regulators in his Administration.
They had a far bigger impact on unions than Reagan ever did. Some background:
When President Carter signed the "Staggers Rail Act," it allowed railroads to finally set their own prices, end unprofitable lines and get out from under the Union Boot. Of course that resulted in a massive loss of union membership which we're still witnessing to this day.
Remember the break-up of the AT&T "Bells"? It didn't happen until after Carter left office, but the judge presiding over the breakup, leading to a major downsizing of two gigantic unions was Harold Greene – a Carter appointee. Membership in the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) fell dramatically (CWA lost 53,000 members) and in came companies like MCI, Sprint, etc. – lowering prices for you and I.
How many are old enough to remember when it cost an arm and a leg to call California from Illinois for 5 minutes? You had to wait until night time for better rates – even calling another County was extra! Now – pick up that damn phone and call anyone anywhere. Far less Union people to screw you, thanks to JC.
Carter also signed the "Motor Carrier Act of 1980″ into law, which deregulated the Interstate Trucking industry – ending the Teamster's monopoly and their literal highway robbery when it came to prices, which were a whopping 75% higher than non-regulated freight. The International Brotherhood of Teamsters even endorsed Reagan in 1980 – that's how pissed they were.
Even the "Socialist Workers" website admits it was Carter who laid the necessary groundwork for Reagan to deal effectively with the PATCO (Air Traffic Controllers Union) illegal and highly dangerous strike:
While Reagan launched the attack on PATCO, the previous administration of Democrat Jimmy Carter prepared the ground. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) under Carter conducted a management campaign of harassment against union controllers. And 12 months before the government's contract with PATCO was set to expire, Carter formed a "Management Strike Contingency Force" to prepare for a walkout–including the use of scabs.
President Obama is all about unions and regulation – just exactly the opposite of what this country needs right now. We gotta get this poison out of our system. The next president should follow Jimmy Carter's lead and use a trick from Obama with a pen and a phone: Outlaw all compulsory membership in public unions – especially Teacher's Unions.
School officials of course, say their hands are tied because of the laws and contract provisions giving tenured teachers the right to a hearing with an arbitrator and an appeal to that arbitration in civil court before they can be fired. So that whole idea of arbitration was a good one, right? Who the hell is going to accept an arbitrator's ruling that they're a sexual deviant who shouldn't be paid for ten years to do nothing?
In 2010, Mayor Michael Bloomberg decried the Rubber Rooms as an "abuse of tenure," which supposedly put an end to the practice of keeping and paying teachers to sit and do nothing. Yet, the city is still paying accused teachers who have been removed from the classroom — at a cost of $22 million this year alone.
We all know the truth about the union dues being a giant slush fund making union bosses and corrupt politicians rich and fat. Then kids end up fat and unemployed when they grow up because instead of getting an education, they're getting lessons in how to feel about 3+8 equals eleven, instead of why 3+8 equals eleven.
I could go on and on, but the point is – if liberal Jimmy Carter knew what a raw deal Americans were getting with over-regulation and these unions – especially the public unions – then why are they still able to screw our children out of a decent education. I probably shouldn't have used that word in light of the fact that these sexual predators in the "Rubber Rooms" are still at large and getting paid, but come on – it's time to stop putting up with this crap.
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The unofficial results from Tuesday's election solidified Montebello voters' overwhelming opposition to Measure S, which proposed a 0.75 percent hike in the city's sales tax to bring new revenue to the city.
Despite Montebello officials repeatedly declaring the sales tax increase was necessary, Measure S was soundly defeated with a large difference of 2,213 (62.13 percent) to 1,349 (37.87 percent) votes.
After declaring a financial emergency, the Montebello City Council in May voted to hold a special election on Nov. 7 to ask voters to raise the sales tax.
City officials originally wanted to hike the sales tax by 1-cent and projected a $9 million jump in revenue if the measure were to pass, but were later forced to lower the projection to $6.75 million to comply with a state law regulating the amount local municipalities can charge in sales tax.
Because Los Angeles County voters had approved a quarter-cent sales tax hike in March to pay for services for the homeless, which went into on Oct. 1, Montebello officials were forced to lower their ask to .75-cents to avoid violating the cap, causing the drop in projected revenue.
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Turnout was expected to be low for Tuesday's Los Angeles County elections. And it was.
Unofficial figures released early Wednesday put the turnout figure at 11.29 percent.
Election experts noted that the turnout tends to be low when there is no presidential race on the ballot, even when there are local offices up for grab and tax raising measures on the ballot.
The election included a countywide quarter-cent sales tax measure to combat homelessness, a successful re-election run by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, local council races and measures to control development and the production and sale of marijuana in the City of Angeles.
Of the 593,233 ballots tallied as of early Wednesday, 239,853 — or roughly 40 percent — were vote-by-mail, while the rest were cast at the polls, according to the county Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk's office.
It was unclear how many late, provisional and questioned ballots still need to be counted, and how they would affect the final turnout figure, but this is how it looked on Wednesday:
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With all precincts reporting, Measure H had 67.44 percent of the vote, just ahead of the two-thirds majority it needed to pass. The measure was short of the threshold much of Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning, but it steadily gained ground as vote-counting continued, and it passed the two-thirds mark only when the final precincts reported.
The Board of Supervisors declared homelessness a countywide emergency and chose the sales tax hike over a number of other funding alternatives, including a millionaire's tax, a parcel tax and a special tax on marijuana.
There are roughly 47,000 homeless people countywide, according to a point-in-time count in January 2016. That total reflects a 19 percent increase since 2013, according to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority.
City of L.A. Mayor, City Council
The city's mayor and six members of the Los Angeles City Council were celebrating re-election victories Wednesday, while Councilman Gil Cedillo appeared to have won as well, but by a tenuous margin over activist/businessman Joe Bray-Ali.
With all precincts reporting from Tuesday's election, Cedillo finished with 50.98 percent of the vote, appearing to win re-election outright.
Cedillo had a 1,952-vote lead over Bray-Ali, a bike activist and former bike shop owner.
Of the three challengers looking to unseat Cedillo in the 1st Council District, which includes the Westlake area, Chinatown, Highland Park and Lincoln Heights, Bray-Ali presented the biggest challenge to the political veteran first elected to the seat in 2013 and who also served 14 years in the Assembly and state Senate.
It was unclear Wednesday whether the final count might land him under the 50 percent threshold to avoid a May 16 runoff.
Meanwhile, Mayor Garcetti was preparing for another term Wednesday, after easily outpacing a field of 10 challengers and avoiding a May runoff to keep his job.
The mayor proclaimed victory relatively early Tuesday night – when early returns had already given him about 80 percent of the vote – greeting supporters at a campaign party in downtown Los Angeles, touting his achievements over the past four years and vowing that more is to come.
"While other people are talking about doing big things, Los Angeles, we are doing big things right now," he said. "My friends, big things don't happen by accident. They require leadership. The job of the mayor is to get things done, and that's what I'm going to keep on doing for each and every one of you here in this city. We're breaking records at our port and our airport."
"We're breaking records for tourism and filming. We've housed more homeless veterans than any city in America. We've paved more roads than ever before. We've confronted climate change head on, by cleaning our air, conserving our water and expanding our green spaces. We enacted the largest tax cut in our city's history and we've seen more small businesses start in the last four years than we've seen in decades."
"… So we are doing big things, but we have a lot more left to do."
Measure S
Despite a defeat at the ballot box, backers of a hotly debated initiative aimed at limiting development in the city of Los Angeles in part by blocking General Plan amendments for two years said Wednesday they were happy that their campaign has prompted change at City Hall.
"We not only exposed corruption but we began a process of reform," said Michael Weinstein, president of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, which largely bankrolled the campaign in support of Measure S. "We built a citywide movement and we planted the seeds of change. Los Angeles will be a better place to live as a result of the Yes on S campaign."
Measure S was handily defeated by voters in Tuesday's election. The initiative was the most expensive – and in many ways the most bitter – campaign in the Los Angeles city election.
The measure would have halted all General Plan amendments, or special permission to developers known as "spot zoning," for two years while the city updates its General Plan and community plans that guide neighborhood development.
The measure's backers argued that City Hall is plagued by a "pay-to-play" climate in which wealthy developers who contribute money to elected officials' campaigns get spot zoning requests granted while the proliferation of high-rise towers and other expensive developments have caused increases in the cost of housing.
Opponents, however, argued the measure goes too far, saying a halt to all General Plan amendments would undercut the city's efforts to build affordable housing and housing for the homeless while severely hurting the local economy. Officials also argued that updating the General Plan and community plans within two years is not possible.
Measure M
Los Angeles voters have overwhelmingly approved a measure that gives the city tools to regulate the recreational and medical marijuana industry.
The city-sponsored Measure M easily bested a competing ballot issue, the initiative Measure N, which was crafted and pushed onto the ballot by a marijuana trade group that later opted to throw its support behind the City Council's measure.
The measures were placed on the ballot in reaction to California voters in November agreeing to legalize recreational marijuana starting in 2018.
Measure M will allow the city to repeal a current ban on medical marijuana dispensaries under the previously approved Proposition D and replace it with a new set of rules for different types of marijuana businesses.
It will give the city tools to enforce its regulations, such as authorizing fines, criminal penalties or loss of power and water service for businesses operating without a license or ignoring city rules.
The measure also allows for gross-receipt taxes to be imposed on marijuana businesses, including the sale of general-use and medical cannabis, delivery services and manufacturing.
"Los Angeles is leading the country and world in responsible and inclusive approaches to legalization," City Council President Herb Wesson said. "The passing of Proposition M is a great victory for common sense, law enforcement and all Angelenos. We gave communities a voice in the process, and their voices will continue to be heard. This measure is what responsible marijuana laws should look like, and we couldn't be prouder of our city."
Measure N called for giving permitting priority to 135 businesses that have been allowed to operate under the Proposition D ban, and also includes taxation and permitting provisions.
But since the city-backed measure also wound up containing a provision to prioritize the Proposition D-immune medical marijuana dispensaries, the group behind Measure N, the UCBA Trade Association, opted to back Measure M.
Part 2: EGP Ballot Recommendations for March 7 Primary Election
March 2, 2017 by admin · Leave a Comment
City of Los Angeles
Mayor of the City of Los Angeles – Eric Garcetti
In the race for mayor, Eastern Group Publications (EGP) endorses the reelection of Eric Garcetti. Garcetti has proven that it's possible to be a mayor for all Angelenos by his constant attention to the needs of all the city's neighborhoods, while still giving special attention to the homeless, the poor and immigrants.
As mayor, Garcetti has continued to press for action to reduce pollution and to make the need to conserve water a shared responsibility.
Garcetti has been a strong voice for continuing the building of a world-class transit system and a world-class airport, making progress in each of those areas by gaining the support of both Angelenos and neighbors in other cities.
His endorsement of a livable wage for low-income workers has won our admiration, as has his support for protecting undocumented immigrants in the city. Most of all, we appreciate the fact that in Los Angeles, one of the most diverse cities in the world, our mayor can move around this city with the ease and comfort and demeanor only officials that are well liked and trusted are able to do.
Vote Eric Garcetti for Mayor of Los Angeles.
City Council District 1 – Gil Cedillo
Our endorsement goes to the incumbent, Gil Cedillo. For the most part, we have been pleased by changes in the First District, including cleaner streets in areas once heavily littered, and the faster cleanup of trash and items illegally dumped. No small task, given that the district is one of the city's most densely populated.
While there are still many upgrades and improvements needed across the district – and all across the city, for that matter – Cedillo has made progress on improving the district's infrastructure, including installing new streets signs and street lights along neighborhood thoroughfares.
Yes, we understand that bicycle activists are unhappy with Cedillo's decision not to support a bike lane along North Figueroa Street, but as this newspaper reported at the time, there were many in the community who agreed with him, and many have told us they still do.
Gentrification will continue to be a hot button issue across the district and the city.
And while we agree that the building of more affordable residential units is needed, we disagree that the loss of affordable and rent control units can be blamed solely on Cedillo or any single city council member. There are limits – under current city regulations and ordinances – to the control the city has over what an owner can do with his or her property, and on who is allowed to buy property in the city.
In our view, Cedillo and his staff need to do a better job or articulating what they have done when it comes to development, why he has approved certain developments, and how he intends to protect neighborhoods from over development. But that's not to say that we believe the councilman has neglected the communities in those areas, rather to emphasize that a little more face-to-face discussion and consultation could go a long way to reduce distress and dissention.
We give our endorsement to Gil Cedillo for Council District 1.
Previous EGP Ballot Recommendations:
City of Los Angeles
Measure S is Not the Solution – Vote No
Measure S – The Neighborhood Integrity Initiative – asks Los Angeles voters to approve a two-year moratorium on developments that don't conform to the city's current, but outdated General Plan, but the intended and unintended consequences will do more harm than good and deserves a no vote.
Yes on Measure M, No on Measure N
Measure M is a sensible step to ensuring the city can responsibly regulate enforcement and taxation on the commercial production, cultivation and sale of marijuana, now that California voters have approved its legalization.
Vote No on Measure N – which is no longer even supported by the cannabis industry.
Los Angeles County
We Need to Invest in Services for the Homeless – Vote Yes on Measure H
Measure H will authorize the County to hike the sales tax a quarter-cent to pay for much needed services for the homeless population in Los Angeles County. Funding includes services for mental health, substance abuse treatment, health care, education, job training, housing subsidies, outreach and other supportive services for homeless adults, families. Vote Yes.
Measure S Campaign Accused of 'Dirty Tricks'
March 2, 2017 by admin · Leave a Comment
Leaders of the campaign behind a development-control measure on the March ballot said Monday they will not stop sending out mailers that the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department called unlawful for mimicking the appearance of an eviction notice sent by the department.
Sheriff's officials sent the campaign a cease-and-desist letter last week, demanding that it stop using the department's name and image in the mailer. It also called the mailer unlawful under the California Business and Professions Code.
The campaign responded: "While we respect the work and the mission of the Sheriff's Department, we are disappointed that they and the Los Angeles County Counsel have inserted themselves into a political campaign in an apparent attempt to influence the outcome."
Measure S on the March 7 ballot would halt all General Plan amendments — or special permission to developers known as "spot zoning" — for two years while the city updates its General Plan and community plans that guide neighborhood development.
Supporters of Measure S argue the city's procedure of frequently granting spot zoning requests while elected officials routinely take campaign donations from developers creates a cozy relationship and leaves the impression that City Hall can be bought.
Opponents of Measure S — including Gov. Jerry Brown, Mayor Eric Garcetti and City Councilman Jose Huizar — say it would limit the city's ability to build affordable housing and hurt the local economy.
The eviction-notice mailer is intended to send the message that people could end up being evicted due to the rising cost of housing Measure S purports to help solve.
But in a letter to the sheriff's department, Larry Gross of the Coalition for Economic Survival wrote that its leaders "have been getting phones calls from tenants who say they became frightened and unnerved upon opening their mail boxes and thinking they had just received an eviction notice.
"Then, they became angry when they realized that this was a dirty campaign ploy to scare them into voting for Measure S."
LASD officials said state law prohibits a nongovernmental entity from using a trade, brand name, seal, emblem or insignia in a manner that can be construed as governmental approval.
But the Yes on S campaign dismissed the idea that the mailer could be mistaken as being from the LASD.
"The Sheriff's Department's purported concerns about the Coalition to Preserve LA's `Yes on S' campaign mailer regarding evictions are quite overblown. There is no risk of the public being misled that the L.A. County Sheriff's Department is affiliated with or authorized the campaign mailer," according to the organization.
Earlier this month, Garcetti criticized the campaign for using his image and a quote in an email blast, calling it a "dirty trick" that made it look like he supports the campaign when he is actually opposed.
EGP Ballot Recommendations for March 7 Primary Election
February 23, 2017 by admin · Leave a Comment
City of Los Angeles
Measure S Is Not the Solution – Vote No
Measure S – The Neighborhood Integrity Initiative – asks Los Angeles voters to approve a two-year moratorium on developments that don't conform to the city's current, but outdated General Plan, but the intended and unintended consequences will do more harm than good and the measure deserves a no vote.
Any development requiring an amendment for height or zoning changes would be blocked.
At first glance, Measure S appears to be good government reform, stopping city officials too willing to approve zoning variances for construction projects in return for campaign donations. But developers aren't the only special interest group with deep pockets and political muscle.
Angry about plans to construct two 28-story buildingss next to the headquarters of the AIDS Health Foundation that would block their view, President Michael Weinstein pushed forward Measure S and the group is the campaign's largest donor.
Weinstein says uncontrolled development is a serious health and quality of life issue.
He may be partially right, but the reality is Measure S is also the latest form of NIMBY thinking: Not In My Backyard.
We understand the anger many people feel about developments changing the character of their neighborhoods and building projects out of sync with what communities want, but Measure S is not the solution; it's overkill.
Yes, the city has done a miserable job of updating its now nearly 20-year-old General Plan to meet the city's current needs. The 35 community plans that dictate where housing, commerce and industrial projects will be built, have languished for years.
Yet, while well intentioned, Measure S would not only stop bad development, it would also stop the building of much needed affordable and market-rate housing, homeless shelters and other projects.
Passage would be a hit to the economy, costing as many as 12,000 jobs and $1.9 billion in economic output, according to a study by Beacon Economics. Between 2,100 and 2,800 housing units would be lost annually, the study estimates.
The city, which is already facing a multi-million dollar deficit, would lose about $70 million in revenue from building permits, licenses and other fees, according to the Financial Impact Report issued by former City Administrator Miguel Santana.
Feeling the pressure from Measure S, the city council has now approved major changes to how it will handle future development. Under a proposal brought by Councilman Jose Huizar, the city will now update its community plans every six years at a cost of $10 million annually. Developers will also now have to use a city-approved company to complete their environmental impact reports.
Measure S has many things in it to like, but the problems it will cause outweight the benefits, there we urge a no vote.
Yes on Measure M, No on Measure N
Measure M is a sensible step to ensuring the city can responsibly regulate enforcement and taxation on the commercial production, cultivation and sale of marijuana, now that California voters have approved its legalization.
Passage would replace Proposition D, which currently regulates and licenses medical marijuana dispensaries in the city of Los Angeles, but is now outdated due to legalization of marijuana for recreational use. Measure M calls for the city to gather input from the community at public hearings on its implementation of the city's licensing, taxing and enforcement regulations.
We believe that if you must have the licensing for the dispensaries growth and sale of marijuana, it should be controlled by a government agency and not by the industry as proposed by Measure N – which is no longer even supported by that industry. Vote yes on Measure M and no on Measure N.
Los Angeles County
We Need to Invest in Services for the Homeless – Vote Yes on Measure H
Placed on the ballot by the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors, Measure H will authorize the County to impose a quarter-cent sales and use tax increase to pay for much needed services to the homeless population in Los Angeles County.
Funding includes services for mental health, substance abuse treatment, health care, education, job training, housing subsidies, outreach and other supportive services for homeless adults, families, battered women, seniors, veterans, children and battered youth among others.
It also includes an important allocation for "bridge funding" to help people on the brink of homelessness –many of them seniors struggling to survive on fixed incomes – stay in their homes.
Measure H is a companion measure to City of Los Angeles Measure HHH, a $1.2 billion bond measure to build thousands of permanent and transitional housing for the homeless over the next decade.
Taken together, the two measures represent a comprehensive, multi-layer approach to the complex issues that lead to homelessness.
We urge a yes vote on Measure H.
Community College Board Seat 4
Our endorsement goes to Community College Trustee Ernest H. Moreno.
Moreno has earned our endorsement for his years of dedication to the district after bringing East Los Angeles Community College back from a college mired in debt and in an old falling apart campus to the largest community college, well-maintained and progressively run and for having similar results while at Mission College.
Moreno has proven to be an excellent and judicious voice for the community he serves as a member of the board of trustees.
Ernie Moreno the best candidate for Seat No. 4.


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All A Dream?
Saturday, 9 December 2017
Despite some people finding them dull, I find dreams endlessly fascinating.
I have written here before about how "and it was all a dream" is unacceptable as a denouement in all books aside from the two Alice novels. However, that set me thinking. What if it was all a dream? I'm reminded of something I thought when I was a very young child.
In the early seventies there was a BBC exhibition at the Science Museum in London. I have since discovered that it was officially known as the BBC tv Special Effects Exhibition but as a child I just thought of it as the Doctor Who exhibition as there were going to be a lot of Doctor Who exhibits there.
The night before we were due to go I was so excited I had difficulty falling asleep. When I did I had a couple of dreams about going to the exhibition. Eventually the real morning came. I seem to recall it being dark and cold and having to get up unusually early, but this is no doubt the memory of another exciting event - say of going on holiday or something - being conflated.
I don't remember the journey to the Science Museum but remember parts of the exhibition very clearly. The centrepiece was the TARDIS control room, far bigger, brighter and more in colour than I had ever experienced it before. The central console itself was fenced off which was a shame, but nevertheless just being there was unbelievably thrilling. Against one wall was a futuristic computer bank with two tape reels on it - I'd never noticed this on television but nevertheless always included it in any drawings of the TARDIS interior I did thereafter.
At one side of the room the TARDIS doors opened onto some kind of balcony. On it, behind a guard rail, sat two Daleks within some kind of cave, ranting about extermination and disintegration. Me and several other children crowded around the rail. I was convinced that when I waved at one of the Daleks it had swivelled its eye-stalk to look at me; I mentioned this and all the children started waving trying to attract its attention.
I don't remember much about the rest of the exhibits aside from a small model of a scene from The Dæmons in which the heat barrier featured in that story was represented by a semicircle made of tinsel. I've long since lost the TARDIS Commander badge given away at the exhibition but remember being slightly annoyed at the concept (even at a young age I knew the Doctor was a freelancer who had no time for commanders) and at the proportions of the TARDIS depicted on the badge (it was too squat).
That evening I was upset that the whole thing was over. I wanted to go all over again - or rather I wanted to have not been yet and to still have it all ahead of me. I remembered the dreams of the previous night. What if today had been another dream and I had yet to wake up on the exciting morning of the actual visit to the Doctor Who Exhibition?
Even after another night's sleep this fancy stayed with me. I was young but had already experienced recursive dreams within dreams and knew that you could go to sleep while dreaming.
And I kept thinking this. I kept thinking that I might still wake up again on that cold morning in the early seventies about to make the trip to South Kensington. Whenever something went wrong I'd half think, "Well this could all still just be a dream and I might still wake up about to go to the Doctor Who Exhibition."
Very occasionally I still think it now.
Of course if the past forty plus years have all been a dream then it means I made it all up and that this isn't what adulthood is like at all, it's just what a child's idea of adulthood is like. I imagined it all from Thatcher to Trump, from Blake's Seven to Game of Thrones, from getting a job to unemployment benefits, CDs, anti-depressants, the internet, goth, Toyah, what coffee actually tastes like, all Doctor Who stories after Jon Pertwee, what getting drunk is like and all the people I've met since then, friends and enemies alike. Perhaps this is why I'm not in touch with anyone from back then.
I hope I can remember it all when I wake up. It would make a cracking novel.
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Lucinda Marshall is an artist, writer, and activist. Her poems have or will soon be published by Stepping Stones, ISLE, One Sentence Poems, Poetica, and Sediments. Her poem, "The Lilies Were In Bloom" received an Honorable Mention in Waterline Writers' "Artists As Visionaries: Climate Change Solutions. She also facilitates the Gaithersburg (MD) Teen Writing Club. More information about Lucinda's work can be found on her website, Reclaiming Medusa.
Favorite poets: Sandra Beasley, Alison H. Palmer, June Jordan, Margaret Atwood, Cynthia Hogue.
This poem was originally published by Stepping Stones Magazine.
Read the text of the poem here.


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April Bernardi - Pre Natal Yoga
Products and Biography
April Nirankar Bernardi has been on a spiritual journey of self discovery for nearly a decade. She is a Registered Yoga Teacher, who's teaching styles include Kundalini, Ashtanga and Pre-Natal Yoga.
April is a dedicated yoga practitioner who has studied with Gurmukh Khalsa, Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, David Swenson and more. April is the creator of Transformation through Kundalini Yoga DVD, The Art of Creation Pre-Natal DVD, and is currently studying at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition in New York City to become a Holistic Health Counselor.