Index of Posts from my blogs

2/4/2010: Enviro deal-cutters get a lot of heat

http://rare-earth-news.blogspot.com/2010/02/both-sprawl-and-oil-drilling-make-quite.html

8/27/2009: Do California Environmentalists Want another Mega-Pipe to Send more Northern Calif. Water to So-Cal?

http://rare-earth-news.blogspot.com/2009/08/corporate-enviros-get-presss-ear-on.html

7/6/2009: Envirowimps: L.A.'s Big Green Groups Get Comfy & leave the street-fighting to the little guys

http://rare-earth-news.blogspot.com/2009/07/la-weekly-gives-us-star-billing.html

5/8/2009: New Park Has 360 Degree View of L.A.

http://rare-earth-news.blogspot.com/2009/05/baldwin-hills-scenic-overlook-has.html

4/27/2009: Our Updated Santa Monica Mountains parks purchase map

http://rare-earth-news.blogspot.com/2009/04/will-obama-complete-santa-monica.html

3/9/2009: Habitat Conservation or Development Accomodation?

http://rare-earth-news.blogspot.com/2009/03/land-deal-to-expand-morgan-territory.html

2/27/2009: Pitting parks advocates against each other

http://rare-earth-news.blogspot.com/2009/02/website-maps-out-deficit-of-parks-in.html

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2/21/2009: Debate Over L.A.'s Newest Light Rail Line Shows Need for Elevated Instead of Street Level Design

http://rare-earth-news.blogspot.com/2009/02/debate-over-l.html

2/18/2009: Sacramento River Delta plan

http://rare-earth-news.blogspot.com/2009/02/public-hearings-on-habitat-conservation.html

1/14/2009: Why We Favor Elevated Light-Rail Transit Over Subways

http://rare-earth-news.blogspot.com/2009/01/why-we-favor-elevated-light-rail.html

1/02/2009: A New Year's 2009 Message from Rare Earth News

http://rare-earth-news.blogspot.com/2009/01/new-years-2009-message-from-rare-earth.html

1/01/2009: At Least 90,000 acres were Preserved in 2008

Our 2008 Update to our California Conservation Lands Inventory

http://rare-earth-news.blogspot.com/2009/01/at-least-90000-acres-were-preserved-in.html

12/302008: California’s Voter-Created UGB’s: Urban Growth Boundaries

http://rare-earth-news.blogspot.com/2008/12/look-at-benefits-of-californias-voter.html

12/6/2008: wid power growing north of LA

http://rare-earth-news.blogspot.com/2008/12/some-new-players-in-kern-county-wind.html

8/28/2008: Tejon Ranch stock market value blues

http://rare-earth-news.blogspot.com/2008/08/cold-feet-biggest-backer-of-tejon-ranch.html

8/4/2008: more on Tejon Ranch

http://rare-earth-news.blogspot.com/2008/08/tejon-ranch-stock-is-at-5-year-low-is.html

8/3/2008: CA Supertrain seeks $( billion

http://rare-earth-news.blogspot.com/2008/08/november-ballot-measure-will-ask.html

6/6/2008 Humbooldt Redwoods Axemaster loses in bankruptcy court

http://rare-earth-news.blogspot.com/2008/06/texas-judge-kicks-maxxam-out-of.html

6/2/2008: A Make the Developers Pay-Water Bill is Being Debated in Sacramento

http://rare-earth-news.blogspot.com/2008/06/call-to-action-on-water-supply.html

5/13/2008: Tejon Ranch Development Proposal Cuts Key Wildlife Corridors Between Sierra Nevadas and Coast Ranges

http://rare-earth-news.blogspot.com/2008/05/tejon-ranch-development-proposal-cuts.html

4/29/2008: Over 130,000 acres in CA saved in 8 months

http://rare-earth-news.blogspot.com/2008/04/over-130000-acres-of-wildlife-habitat.html

3/26/2008: Oregon Voters Overturn Sneaky Developer Windfall Law

http://rare-earth-news.blogspot.com/2008/03/oregon-voters-overturn-sneaky-developer.html

1/16/2008: Some Claim Environmental Benefit to Plan that Would Send More Northern California Water to the South

http://rare-earth-news.blogspot.com/2008/01/some-claim-environmental-benefit-to.html

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

¼/2008: ruling blocks housing project near California's Mount Whitney

http://rare-earth-news.blogspot.com/2008/01/final-appeals-court-ruling-blocks.html

10/25/2007: Horror of Southern California Brush Fires as Seen from Above

http://rare-earth-news.blogspot.com/2007/10/horror-of-southern-california-brush.html

9/15/2007: L.A. Councilman urges opposition to 5,500-home development at Wildlife Pinchpoint between Santa Susana Mountains and Angeles National Forest

http://rare-earth-news.blogspot.com/2007/09/l_15.html

9/15/2007: Ballona Developers Not Only Lose Their Building Permits and EIR, They Lose Their High Density Zoning

http://rare-earth-news.blogspot.com/2007/09/l.html

9/5/2007: Huge Gains in Saving Land in California Between 2000 and Summer of 2007

http://rare-earth-news.blogspot.com/2007/09/huge-gains-in-saving-land-in-california.html

9/5/2007: L.A.'s Baldwin Hills Could be 2/3rds Saved Soon

http://rare-earth-news.blogspot.com/2007/09/las-baldwin-hills-could-be-23rds-saved.html

10/2/2015: http://lacreekparks.blogspot.com/2015/10/what-its-all-about.html

10/4/2015: LA Creeks master plan project

http://lacreekparks.blogspot.com/2015/10/rex-frankel-will-speak-about-largest.html

10/11/2016:

http://lacreekparks.blogspot.com/2016/10/our-vision-for-next-ten-years.html

6/29/2015: L.A. Politicians Get Sued When they Favor Concrete over New Parks for L.A

http://ballona-news.blogspot.com/2015/06/la-politicians-get-sued-when-they-favor.html

6/18/2015: $20 billion tax-hiking No New Parks Plan is Ok'd by State Board

http://ballona-news.blogspot.com/2015/06/20-billion-tax-hiking-no-new-parks-plan.html

5/18/2015: High Speed Hearing Endorses Bad L.A. Creeks Plan

http://ballona-news.blogspot.com/2015/05/if-you-support-expanded-parks-from-our.html

5/16/2015: What L.A.'S Park System Could Look Like -- If L.A.'s Concreted Creeks Were Turned Into Parks

http://lacreekparks.blogspot.com/p/background.html

9/29/2014: comments on L.A. City and County urban runoff cleanup plans (ie., wetland pollution plans)

http://ballona-news.blogspot.com/2014/09/comments-on-la-city-and-county-urban.html

5/2006: Bay Cleanup or Boondoggle?

http://ballona-news.blogspot.com/2008/03/bay-cleanup-or-boondoggle-sprawl-ridden.html

https://angeles.sierraclub.org/blog/2006/04/bay_cleanup_or_boondoggle

11/18/2007: the 2 Competing Plans for Cleaning up SM Bay

http://ballona-news.blogspot.com/2007/11/two-competing-plans-for-cleaning-up.html

11/21/2006: River Restoration gets front page of LA Weekly

http://ballona-news.blogspot.com/2007/11/river-restoration-in-l.html

https://www.laweekly.com/news/the-lost-streams-of-los-angeles-2146181

11/2007: SLO Restored Creeks

http://ballona-news.blogspot.com/2007/11/restored-creeks-revitalize-our-cities.html

8/10/2006: River restoration is least expensive way to clean up SM Bay

http://ballona-news.blogspot.com/2007/11/thursday-august-10-2006-river.html

9/21/2018: Why is a Top Southern California Edison Wetlands Manager Spreading Baloney about the Ballona Wetlands?

http://ballona-news.blogspot.com/2018/09/not-o-kay.html

2/22/2018: Bureaucrats Want to Speed Up Sea Level Rise's Harm to the Ballona Wetlands

http://ballona-news.blogspot.com/2018/02/2222018.html

2/5/2018: Our Comment Letter on the 8000-Page Ballona wetlands Restoration Plan Report

http://ballona-news.blogspot.com/2018/02/252018.html

2/28/2018 Photos of the cute critters at risk at Ballona

http://ballona-news.blogspot.com/2018/02/photos-of-all-cute-critters-at-risk.html

1/22/2018: A Big victory for fans of the Ballona Wetlands:

http://ballona-news.blogspot.com/2018/02/1222018.html

2/28/2018: we testify at CA Coastal Commission on illegal drying up of Ballona Wetlands

http://ballona-news.blogspot.com/2018/02/12142017-coastal-commission-hearing-on.html

11/8/2017: our statement at the Baig Ballona hearing:

http://ballona-news.blogspot.com/2018/02/1182017-public-hearing-on-ballona.html

7/9/2015: When polluters and funders design a wildlife preserve's restoration plan, what do ya get?

http://ballona-news.blogspot.com/2015/07/when-polluters-and-funders-design.html

6/12/2015: Annenberg Backs Away from Ballona, locates a couple of miles east

http://ballona-news.blogspot.com/2015/06/annenberg-listens-to-other-side.html

12/4/2014: the Annenberg Foundation Will Not "AccessBallona"

http://ballona-news.blogspot.com/2014/12/sometimes-money-is-not-enough.html

5/25/2014: What is the Correct Definition of a Wetland Restoration?

http://ballona-news.blogspot.com/2014/05/is-going-back-4000-years-ago-restoration.html

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

http://ballona-news.blogspot.com/2014/05/refuting-claim-that-our-ballona.html

8/14/2012: first big hearing on Ballona rrestoration

http://ballona-news.blogspot.com/2012/08/first-big-public-hearing-on-ballona.html

7/14/2012: Playa Vista tries to privatize their parks

http://ballona-news.blogspot.com/2012/07/new-lawsuit-is-filed-over-playa-vistas.html

4/4/2012: CA Supreme Court declines to take our case--so our legal battle over the last phase of Playa Vista has ended

http://ballona-news.blogspot.com/2012/04/some-sad-news-yet-we-count-our.html

1/13/2012

http://ballona-news.blogspot.com/2012/01/ballona-bulldozing-backers-seek-6.html

8/17/2010: developer dealt away their rights to build more

http://ballona-news.blogspot.com/2010/08/smoking-gun-documents-show-that-ballona.html

4/2/2010:

http://ballona-news.blogspot.com/2010/04/la-weekly-exposes-massive-city-hall.html

1/7/2010:

http://ballona-news.blogspot.com/2010/01/heres-thought-if-you-want-more-parking.html

12/8/2009

http://ballona-news.blogspot.com/2009/12/daily-breeze-covers-playa-vistas-latest.html

6/17/2009: why not split Ballona restoration plan into two?

http://ballona-news.blogspot.com/2009/06/here-is-our-proposal-for-restoring.html

6/8/2009: Bureaucrats kick public out of Ballona Wetlands

http://ballona-news.blogspot.com/2009/06/state-declares-people-are-banned-in.html

4/27/2009: hilltop park opens

http://ballona-news.blogspot.com/2009/04/baldwin-hills-scenic-overlook-has.html

3/26/2009: our cover story in the Culver City News

http://ballona-news.blogspot.com/2009/03/ballona-restoration-stakeholders.html

2/20/2009: I meet with Ballona's top bureaucrat

http://ballona-news.blogspot.com/2009/02/ballona-restoration-plan-is-still-work.html

2/17/2009: Ballona developer seeks another public gift

http://ballona-news.blogspot.com/2009/02/playa-vista-seeks-300-million-gift-from.html

1/30/2009:

State backs off a bit from destructive Ballona scheme

http://ballona-news.blogspot.com/2009/01/state-officials-back-off-from-over.html

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:

http://ballona-news.blogspot.com/2008/11/what-we-have-accomplished-in-20-years.html

10/14/2008: State Unveils Restoration Plan for Ballona Wetlands to Extreme Alarm of the Folks Who Fought For Years to Save It

http://ballona-news.blogspot.com/2008/10/state-unveils-restoration-plan-for.html

3/17/2008: lands yet to be saved at Ballona

http://ballona-news.blogspot.com/2008/03/status-of-open-spaces-around-ballona.html

3/17/2008: LAX northside development is cut back

http://ballona-news.blogspot.com/2008/03/latest-news.html

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

4/1988: Demopublican Developmentality, see page 3
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

5/1989: Lincoln Blvd traffic capacity war, see page 8

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B5SGRAMv8RXuWU1oaC1iRlBDTzA

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

4/1998: Ballona Baloney, see page 2:
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

June 1999: Playa Vista hosts "Smart Growth" convention" see page 2
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5SGRAMv8RXuOVhXTVk5QTJuVUk/view

9/1999: Spielberg bails out of Ballona

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5SGRAMv8RXueE1CQnozcF9CYTA/view

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

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

1/2017: Don't be too blue over Trump

http://rexfrankel.blogspot.com/2017/01/count-your-blessings.html

4/2010: People With Nothing Better to do but criticize the spelling in other people's "tweets"

http://rexfrankel.blogspot.com/2010/04/truly-important-news-department.html

8/2009: Victimized Venice Developer Lobbyist Sues State for not forcing the public to park in his boss's lots

http://rexfrankel.blogspot.com/2009/08/victimized-venice-developer-lobbyist.html

10/2008: The Repackaging of the President

http://rexfrankel.blogspot.com/2008/10/lifestyles-of-rich-and-fascist_22.html

Khristmas at Kennebunkport
(Originally published in the Free Venice Beachhead, August 1991)

http://rexfrankel.blogspot.com/2008/10/lifestyles-of-rich-and-fascist.html

7/2008 ARE YOU BETTER OFF

THAN YOU WERE 8 YEARS AGO?...

http://rexfrankel.blogspot.com/2008/07/are-you-better-off-than-you-were-8.html

6/2008: toiling for oil

http://rexfrankel.blogspot.com/2008/06/remember-when-press-felt-it-had.html

3/2007: L.A.Times Columnist Pits Light Rail Advocates Against Open Space Protectors;

We Can Have Both

http://rexfrankel.blogspot.com/2007/03/rail-roaded-into-paving-open-spaces.html

6/2013: http://greedwatch.blogspot.com/2013/06/mitt-who.html

4/2010: http://greedwatch.blogspot.com/2010/04/crybaby-bullies-need-your-help-or-at.html

2/2010: Medicare for all

http://greedwatch.blogspot.com/2010/02/usa-is-already-biggest-health-insurance.html

10/2009: Fox News stands alone against the massive liberal media

http://greedwatch.blogspot.com/2009/10/fox-stands-alone-against-massive.html

8/2009: more on Medicare for all

http://greedwatch.blogspot.com/2009/08/my-cure-for-health-reform-fears.html

5/2009 on-line newspaper pay walls not going to save them without local news again

http://greedwatch.blogspot.com/2009/05/time-to-start-paying.html

2/2009: a la carte cable tv

http://greedwatch.blogspot.com/2009/02/while-cable-system-operators-have.html

2/2009: the digital TV switchover giveaway

http://greedwatch.blogspot.com/2009/02/is-digital-tv-changeover-really-just.html

1/19/2009: GW Bush leaves office

http://greedwatch.blogspot.com/2009/01/aftermath-of-bush-yearsthe-end-of_4101.html

Banks: http://greedwatch.blogspot.com/2009/01/how-4-super-banks-got-so-big.html

Oil: http://greedwatch.blogspot.com/2009/01/how-5-big-oil-companies-got-so-big.html

Cars: http://greedwatch.blogspot.com/2009/01/monopolization-of-worlds-car-industry.html

Aerospace and Defense: http://greedwatch.blogspot.com/search/label/Aerospace%20and%20Defense%20Contractors

Media: http://greedwatch.blogspot.com/2009/01/milestones-in-media-monopolism-compiled.html

Railroads: http://greedwatch.blogspot.com/2009/01/big-4-railroad-monopolies-compiled-by.html

Appliances, hardware and tools: http://greedwatch.blogspot.com/2009/01/who-makes-all-appliances-hardware-and.html

8/2008: oil companies feel overtaxed

http://greedwatch.blogspot.com/2008/08/moron-math-used-to-claim-exxon-mobil-is.html

8/2008: radio biz has problems

http://greedwatch.blogspot.com/2008/08/giving-choice-to-captive-audience-is.html

12/2007: Boo Hoo!...Media Giants Say Anti-Monopoly Rules Governing the Public-Owned, but Corporate-Occupied Airwaves are Unfair...to Them

http://greedwatch.blogspot.com/2008/08/giving-choice-to-captive-audience-is.html

11/2007: Buy Nothing Day

http://greedwatch.blogspot.com/2007/11/make-buy-nothing-day-every-day-guide-to.html

11/2007: AT&T is buying back its monopoly

http://greedwatch.blogspot.com/2007/11/at-buying-back-its-monopoly-at-is-u.html

10/2007: CA newspaper monopolism

http://greedwatch.blogspot.com/2007/10/ownership-of-california-daily.html

10/2007: right wing dominance of talk radio biz

http://greedwatch.blogspot.com/2007/10/what-companies-dominate-right-wing.html

7/2007: Boycott everything

http://greedwatch.blogspot.com/2007/07/guide-to-corporate-ownership-of_09.html

https://www.facebook.com/rex.frankel/posts/10218307527586581

https://www.facebook.com/rex.frankel/posts/10218197835084337

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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