Great looking group!
This stuff happens in Berkeley, CA???
It’s hard to believe, but this just came across the news:
Berkeley officials have retained an outside law firm to investigate the police chief’s decision to dispatch a sergeant to a reporter’s home in the middle of the night requesting corrections to a news story.
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Meehan sent Sgt. Mary C. Kusmiss to the home of Bay Area News Group reporter Doug Oakley at 1 a.m. Friday morning to ask for changes to a story Oakley wrote about the chief’s comments at a community meeting the day before. The chief continued to demand changes throughout the following day in phone calls and e-mails, Oakley said.
Probably not surprising in Los Angeles, New York, Miami, etc… but Berkeley? Wow.
(Source: Los Angeles Times)
| Customer-A: | I need to tow car. |
|---|---|
| Clerk: | What I don't understand? |
| Customer-A: | Car blocking me in parking lot, I want tow truck! |
| Customer-B: | I think that might be my car, I'll move it |
| Customer-A: | You no move car, I get tow truck! |
| Customer-B: | No, it's ok, I'll move my car, there was no where else to park. |
| Customer-A: | I get tow truck. I tow your car! |
| ... |
A federal judge Friday declined to dismiss the ACLU Foundation of Southern California’s lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs over the agency’s alleged failure to provide housing and services for thousands of mentally impaired veterans.
The Los Angeles Times blog
(Source: Los Angeles Times)
That prompted a Michigan teenager who was bullied in middle school to start an online petition calling for a lower rating for the film so more young people can see it. She met with MPAA officials last week and delivered the 200,000 signatures she collected, but the group declined to change the rating.
A HuffPo post about that new movie on bullying in schools
Among the industrial democracies where income inequality is increasing, it’s much worse in the United States than it is almost anywhere else.
Timothy Noah at The New Republic
Of the 37 million borrowers who have outstanding student loan balances as of third-quarter 2011, 14.4 percent, or about 5.4 million borrowers, have at least one past due student loan…
Lots people are having trouble making their student loan payments
(Source: The Wall Street Journal)
I don’t understand why we have to go through this sort of thing again and again. There are a lot of people on the streets like Thomas. Police need better strategies for coping with them — with us. Many communities have on-call crisis intervention teams that the police can call in. Such teams need to be not just available everywhere but utilized.
Let’s not allow Kelly Thomas’ death to have been in vain.
Written by someone who would know
(Source: Los Angeles Times)
Perhaps more worrisome, kids who grow up during tough economic times also tend to believe that luck plays a bigger role in their success, which breeds complacency. “Young people raised during recessions end up less entrepreneurial and less willing to leave home because they believe that luck counts more than effort,” said Paola Giuliano, an economist at U.C.L.A.’s Anderson School of Management. A bad economy can boost a person’s weighting of luck by 20 percent, Ms. Giuliano found.
(Source: The New York Times)
