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8 Years Ago Today...
I was in an African American lit lecture at Eastern Michigan University when our teacher made an announcement about the 9/11 attacks. I spent the rest of the day numb, in a daze, floating from one television to another trying to make sense of what I was seeing. Where were you? What do you remember? Leave us a comment.
Slate has a very nice collection of images of Sept. 11, 2001 captured by Magnum photographers around the city that day.
The New York Times' Lens Blog, a photojournalism blog has other photos and video that are worth a bit of your time.
Californians Do Not Heart Their Government The Sac Bee's Capitol Alert has the basics about a new poll that finds close to three-fourths of Californians polled highly distrust their state government. They think it's being run by a small group of big interests. The Times has more. Those polled were basically happy with proposition 13 for residential property, but would like to see commercial property taxes reformed. Here's the full Public Policy Institute of California poll.
That Station Fire Bill Is Big, Let's Split It The San Gabriel Valley Tribune is reporting this morning that Los Angeles County and the U.S. Forest Service are going to sign an agreement today to split the $77 million tab for fighting the Station fire. The Tribune's reporter, Thomas Hines, writes that it's unclear how the bill will be split. The fire burned more than 160,000 acres, but only about 3,000 of those acres fall under state or county jurisdiction. A memorial for the two firefighters killed fighting the station fire is planned for tomorrow morning at Dodger Stadium.
Big Day Ahead for L.A. City Budget...Doesn't Look Good For Mayor V David Zahniser and Maeve Reston have a story in the L.A. Times today that says a fragile, hard-fought agreement between the city and the Coalition of L.A. City Unions to cut the city's $400 million budget deficit might be heading for the rocks next Tuesday. Neon Tommy's own Hillel Aron has a story today about another thorn in the mayor's side. The United Firefighters of Los Angeles went to city hall yesterday to protest "brownouts" of fire service. Those are temporary, daily cuts to firetrucks and ambulances, and firefighter furloughs. Isn't fire season just around the corner?
Homeland Security Money Misspent? Kevin Roderick at LAObserved wrote yesterday that a new statewide investigative journalism outfit called California Watch would run its first story today. The Daily News is running the multimedia story, which puts the spotlight on how $15 million of federal homeland security grant money was spent in California.
Californians Do Not Heart Their Government The Sac Bee's Capitol Alert has the basics about a new poll that finds close to three-fourths of Californians polled highly distrust their state government. They think it's being run by a small group of big interests. The Times has more. Those polled were basically happy with proposition 13 for residential property, but would like to see commercial property taxes reformed. Here's the full Public Policy Institute of California poll.
That Station Fire Bill Is Big, Let's Split It The San Gabriel Valley Tribune is reporting this morning that Los Angeles County and the U.S. Forest Service are going to sign an agreement today to split the $77 million tab for fighting the Station fire. The Tribune's reporter, Thomas Hines, writes that it's unclear how the bill will be split. The fire burned more than 160,000 acres, but only about 3,000 of those acres fall under state or county jurisdiction. A memorial for the two firefighters killed fighting the station fire is planned for tomorrow morning at Dodger Stadium.
Big Day Ahead for L.A. City Budget...Doesn't Look Good For Mayor V David Zahniser and Maeve Reston have a story in the L.A. Times today that says a fragile, hard-fought agreement between the city and the Coalition of L.A. City Unions to cut the city's $400 million budget deficit might be heading for the rocks next Tuesday. Neon Tommy's own Hillel Aron has a story today about another thorn in the mayor's side. The United Firefighters of Los Angeles went to city hall yesterday to protest "brownouts" of fire service. Those are temporary, daily cuts to firetrucks and ambulances, and firefighter furloughs. Isn't fire season just around the corner?
Homeland Security Money Misspent? Kevin Roderick at LAObserved wrote yesterday that a new statewide investigative journalism outfit called California Watch would run its first story today. The Daily News is running the multimedia story, which puts the spotlight on how $15 million of federal homeland security grant money was spent in California.
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