2/4/2010: Enviro deal-cutters get a lot
of heat
8/27/2009: Do California
Environmentalists Want another Mega-Pipe to Send more Northern Calif.
Water to So-Cal?
7/6/2009: Envirowimps: L.A.'s Big Green
Groups Get Comfy & leave the street-fighting to the little guys
5/8/2009: New Park Has 360 Degree View
of L.A.
4/27/2009: Our Updated Santa Monica
Mountains parks purchase map
3/9/2009: Habitat Conservation or
Development Accomodation?
2/27/2009: Pitting parks advocates
against each other
\
2/21/2009: Debate Over L.A.'s Newest
Light Rail Line Shows Need for Elevated Instead of Street Level
Design
2/18/2009: Sacramento River Delta plan
1/14/2009: Why We Favor Elevated
Light-Rail Transit Over Subways
1/02/2009: A New Year's 2009 Message
from Rare Earth News
1/01/2009: At Least 90,000 acres were
Preserved in 2008
Our 2008 Update to our California
Conservation Lands Inventory
12/302008: California’s Voter-Created
UGB’s: Urban Growth Boundaries
12/6/2008: wid power growing north of
LA
8/28/2008: Tejon Ranch stock market
value blues
8/4/2008: more on Tejon Ranch
8/3/2008: CA Supertrain seeks $(
billion
6/6/2008 Humbooldt Redwoods Axemaster
loses in bankruptcy court
6/2/2008: A Make the Developers
Pay-Water Bill is Being Debated in Sacramento
5/13/2008: Tejon Ranch Development
Proposal Cuts Key Wildlife Corridors Between Sierra Nevadas and Coast
Ranges
4/29/2008: Over 130,000 acres in CA
saved in 8 months
3/26/2008: Oregon Voters Overturn
Sneaky Developer Windfall Law
1/16/2008: Some Claim Environmental
Benefit to Plan that Would Send More Northern California Water to the
South
1/5/2008: Two Big San Luis Obispo
County Land Deals are in the
works:
http://rare-earth-news.blogspot.com/2008/01/san-luis-obispo-land-conservancy.html
http://rare-earth-news.blogspot.com/2008/01/san-luis-obispo-land-conservancy.html
¼/2008: ruling blocks housing project
near California's Mount Whitney
10/25/2007: Horror of Southern
California Brush Fires as Seen from Above
9/15/2007: L.A. Councilman urges
opposition to 5,500-home development at Wildlife Pinchpoint between
Santa Susana Mountains and Angeles National Forest
9/15/2007: Ballona Developers Not Only
Lose Their Building Permits and EIR, They Lose Their High Density
Zoning
9/5/2007: Huge Gains in Saving Land in
California Between 2000 and Summer of 2007
9/5/2007: L.A.'s Baldwin Hills Could be
2/3rds Saved Soon
10/4/2015: LA Creeks master plan
project
10/11/2016:
6/29/2015: L.A. Politicians Get Sued
When they Favor Concrete over New Parks for L.A
6/18/2015: $20 billion tax-hiking No
New Parks Plan is Ok'd by State Board
5/18/2015: High Speed Hearing Endorses
Bad L.A. Creeks Plan
5/16/2015: What L.A.'S Park System
Could Look Like -- If L.A.'s Concreted Creeks Were Turned Into Parks
9/29/2014: comments on L.A. City and
County urban runoff cleanup plans (ie., wetland pollution plans)
5/2006: Bay Cleanup or Boondoggle?
http://ballona-news.blogspot.com/2008/03/bay-cleanup-or-boondoggle-sprawl-ridden.html
11/18/2007: the 2 Competing Plans for
Cleaning up SM Bay
11/21/2006:
River Restoration gets front page of LA Weekly
11/2007: SLO Restored Creeks
8/10/2006: River restoration is least
expensive way to clean up SM Bay
9/21/2018: Why is a Top Southern
California Edison Wetlands Manager Spreading Baloney about the
Ballona Wetlands?
2/22/2018: Bureaucrats Want to Speed Up
Sea Level Rise's Harm to the Ballona Wetlands
2/5/2018: Our Comment Letter on the
8000-Page Ballona wetlands Restoration Plan Report
2/28/2018 Photos of the cute critters
at risk at Ballona
1/22/2018: A Big victory for fans of
the Ballona Wetlands:
2/28/2018: we testify at CA Coastal
Commission on illegal drying up of Ballona Wetlands
11/8/2017: our statement at the Baig
Ballona hearing:
7/9/2015: When polluters and funders
design a wildlife preserve's restoration plan, what do ya get?
6/12/2015: Annenberg Backs Away from
Ballona, locates a couple of miles east
12/4/2014: the Annenberg Foundation
Will Not "AccessBallona"
5/9/2014: Do the Ballona Wetlands Need
a Big Fix? Those claiming that now didn't think so before they made
deals with the developers
8/14/2012: first big hearing on Ballona
rrestoration
7/14/2012: Playa Vista tries to
privatize their parks
4/4/2012: CA Supreme Court declines to
take our case--so our legal battle over the last phase of Playa Vista
has ended
1/13/2012
8/17/2010: developer dealt away their
rights to build more
4/2/2010:
1/7/2010:
12/8/2009
6/17/2009: why not split Ballona
restoration plan into two?
6/8/2009: Bureaucrats kick public out
of Ballona Wetlands
4/27/2009: hilltop park opens
3/26/2009: our cover story in the
Culver City News
2/20/2009: I meet with Ballona's top
bureaucrat
2/17/2009: Ballona developer seeks
another public gift
1/30/2009:
State backs off a bit from destructive
Ballona scheme
12/7/2009: 10th annineversary of
Ballona scoop
http://ballona-news.blogspot.com/2008/12/this-is-tenth-anniversary-of-release-of.html
11/4/2008: our accomplishments
1988-2008:
10/14/2008: State Unveils Restoration
Plan for Ballona Wetlands to Extreme Alarm of the Folks Who Fought
For Years to Save It
3/17/2008: lands yet to be saved at
Ballona
3/17/2008: LAX northside development is
cut back
3/17/2008: PLAYA VISTA: development a
bad investment for all
involved
http://ballona-news.blogspot.com/2008/03/playa-vista-development-bad-investment.html
http://ballona-news.blogspot.com/2008/03/playa-vista-development-bad-investment.html
4/1988: Demopublican Developmentality,
see page
3
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5SGRAMv8RXuTmNNN09ldkN5elU/view
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5SGRAMv8RXuTmNNN09ldkN5elU/view
5/1989: L.A. and Culver City at War
(against the public), see page
8
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B5SGRAMv8RXuWU1oaC1iRlBDTzA
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B5SGRAMv8RXuWU1oaC1iRlBDTzA
5/1989: Lincoln Blvd traffic capacity war, see page 8
for
8/1989 story,, see Westside enviro newsletter
11/1995:
SUBDIVIDING PARADISE, L.A. WEEKLY, BY J. WILLIAM
GIBSONhttp://ballona-news.blogspot.com/2007/12/first-major-news-article-covering.html
5/1997: Desperate Developer
Deception
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5SGRAMv8RXuODl4TUpjYktIdDQ/view
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5SGRAMv8RXuODl4TUpjYktIdDQ/view
4/1998: Ballona Baloney, see page
2:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5SGRAMv8RXudGtsUlZDS2c3cDA/view
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5SGRAMv8RXudGtsUlZDS2c3cDA/view
4/1999: secret Playa Vista memos
released
Insider whistleblowers release Playa
Vista internal
memos
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5SGRAMv8RXuQUZjMEVYQ0lPYTA/view
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5SGRAMv8RXuQUZjMEVYQ0lPYTA/view
June 1999: Playa Vista hosts "Smart
Growth" convention" see page
2
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5SGRAMv8RXuOVhXTVk5QTJuVUk/view
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5SGRAMv8RXuOVhXTVk5QTJuVUk/view
9/1999: Spielberg bails out of Ballona
8/2000: Playa Vista developer's
finances in deep trouble;
the full story of the discovery of explosive gases under Playa Vista's condos
click here: Self-Heating Condos
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5SGRAMv8RXub2cwLUJaOHRsQ28/view
the full story of the discovery of explosive gases under Playa Vista's condos
click here: Self-Heating Condos
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5SGRAMv8RXub2cwLUJaOHRsQ28/view
January 2003
Lincoln Blvd. Widening through future State Park halted; BEEP's alternative gets good review by Coastal Commission; and more in BEEP's Save Our Ballona Park newsletter
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5SGRAMv8RXuam1wNEZpQUl3WVk/view
Lincoln Blvd. Widening through future State Park halted; BEEP's alternative gets good review by Coastal Commission; and more in BEEP's Save Our Ballona Park newsletter
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5SGRAMv8RXuam1wNEZpQUl3WVk/view
1/2017: Don't be too blue over Trump
4/2010: People With Nothing Better to
do but criticize the spelling in other people's "tweets"
8/2009: Victimized Venice Developer
Lobbyist Sues State for not forcing the public to park in his boss's
lots
10/2008: The Repackaging of the
President
Khristmas at Kennebunkport
(Originally published in the Free Venice Beachhead, August 1991)
(Originally published in the Free Venice Beachhead, August 1991)
7/2008 ARE YOU BETTER OFF
THAN YOU WERE 8 YEARS AGO?...
6/2008: toiling for oil
3/2007: L.A.Times Columnist Pits Light
Rail Advocates Against Open Space Protectors;
We Can Have Both
2/2010: Medicare for all
10/2009: Fox News stands alone against
the massive liberal media
8/2009: more on Medicare for all
5/2009 on-line newspaper pay walls not
going to save them without local news again
2/2009: a la carte cable tv
2/2009: the digital TV switchover
giveaway
1/19/2009: GW Bush leaves office
Aerospace and Defense:
http://greedwatch.blogspot.com/search/label/Aerospace%20and%20Defense%20Contractors
Appliances, hardware and tools:
http://greedwatch.blogspot.com/2009/01/who-makes-all-appliances-hardware-and.html
8/2008: oil companies feel overtaxed
8/2008: radio biz has problems
12/2007: Boo Hoo!...Media Giants Say
Anti-Monopoly Rules Governing the Public-Owned, but
Corporate-Occupied Airwaves are Unfair...to Them
11/2007: Buy Nothing Day
11/2007: AT&T is buying back its
monopoly
10/2007: CA newspaper monopolism
10/2007: right wing dominance of talk
radio biz
7/2007: Boycott everything
LACreekParks.org lacreekparks.blogspot.com The county measure W is supposed to build projects that clean up and restore polluted creeks that pour crud onto our beaches. Sadly, this plan has been twisted into a water supply expansion by trying to catch nearly every drop of rain that falls in LA, so there will be no water in the creeks flowing into the beaches on every day except during big storms. Dry creeks means no freshwater for wildlife, but a huge new source for developers. The Eco sellout group Heal The Bay is the major backer of measure W, and they are the loudest backers of the plan to bulldoze the Ballona wetlands for a decade, claiming it's a restoration plan. Measure W is a boon for engineering corporations and the developers that will get the water. The promise of clean beaches and removing concrete from urban creeks is now just a sales pitch with no "teeth". I have read and commented upon many of the plans, and sued over the master plan for LA County urban stormwater pollution cleanup. Voters need to reject paying for this bad plan and demand a true creek and beach cleanup and restoration plan. Read more at http://lacreekparks.org |
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