RANDOMLetters sick. It’s unreported. I cry. I scream. I retch. Then I make jokes—but I give you the inside info on the Koch Brothers (“Target 67C” as federal prosecutors called Charles Koch) that will make your eyes pop. Fact: The 2012 election’s been stolen. Already. Stolen by billionaires who’ve created databases
Community Alerts 710 Corridor Project Draft EIR Released for Public Review
San Pedro Community Plan/DEIR Available For Comments
A Draft of the proposed San Pedro Community Plan is now available for public review, along with a corresponding Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR). The DEIR analyzes environmental impacts, such as air quality, traffic, cultural resources and other areas. The proposed plan and related materials, including a map of the recommendations by sub-area, and the DEIR can be found on the Planning Department website at: https://sites.google. com/site/sanpedrocommunityplan A hard copy of the DEIR is also available for review at the San Pedro Branch Library on Gaffey Street and the Harbor City-Wilmington Branch Library on Western Avenue. Interested stakeholders may provide comments on the new plan and the DEIR by Sept. 24. There will be an open house and public hearing scheduled sometime in the fall. To be included on the notification list for this event and other updates, please email Debbie Lawrence at debbie. lawrence@lacity.org or call here at (213) 978-1163. Comments may also be e-mailed.
SP Democratic Club Meeting
Hear guest speaker Assemblyman Mike Feuer, candidate for L.A. City Attorney and a discussion on Props 30 and 32. All are welcome! Mon., Sept. 24, 7-8:45 p.m. The Whale & Ale 327 W. 7th St., San Pedro
Land of the Outsourced
As always, I continue giving you credit for typically very insightful observations about our town and country. Your comments on your most recent editorial regarding negative publicity on San Pedro should certainly stimulate some serious concerns an attention by so-called community leaders. In the distant past when I was about to embark on the long journey to America and San Pedro, and curious of knowing where the place was, I consulted a foreign atlas and quickly established where the place was, located as it was west of Long Beach, south of Los Angeles and north of San Diego. Since that time I have run into untold numbers of local maps and noticed with much disappointment how rare it is for San Pedro to appear on them. My theory is that ever since the “Beacon Street” redevelopment of forty-five years ago, our local leadership has terribly botched its responsibility to the town, either due to its own disconnection from the community it claims to represent or, worse yet, because of its won incompetence. As a result, we locals find ourselves regaled with waterfront improvements that fail to interface with the rest of the community, reflecting a lack of joint coordination between Harbor and City leadership and certainly contributory to the continuing difficulties by our downtown area in revitalizing itself, notwithstanding numerous and well subsidized efforts for the area. And this brings me to another comment you made about President Obama and his “job creation.” My dear friend, neither Mr. Obama nor his counterpart Republicans know what they are talking about. No one in this country will ever “create a job” until the issue of massive job outsourcing to other countries is addressed, something neither party is willing to do. With nearly a billion dollars projected to be spend during this presidential election cycle, our Congress and presidency are no longer representative of the people but beholden only to multinational-globalist interests and their seditious association, both inside and outside government. Roger D’Altavilla San Pedro
Youth Sailing Club is a Bad Idea
Wilmington has long had no Boy or Girl Scout Program, let alone YMCA, to teach local kids to swim, go on trips to experience boating of any kind. This plan for a sailing club in the marina is of Wilmington is part of the Port of Los Angeles’ operations that have fouled our local waterfront and made the air quality above it very bad. Is it wise to allow kids to learn to sail in such an environment, when other sites might be more appropriate? Both Cabrillo Beach and Port of Los Angeles High School Youth
have sailing clubs. So why not merge the proposed Wilmington Club with these already in existence? If the Wilmington Club must go forward as is, then take an example form the LAPDs Explorer Scout Program that has Harbor Division officers as their mentors. If the Wilmington Club promoters can get, say the Coast Guard and or U.S. Navy to sponsor the training program and keep close tabs on it, then it might convince parents that such a Sailing Club might lead to a job down the road. If the enrollees are required to get a high school diploma, that is, make progress toward same or be dropped form the club program, , say.
Most of us with experience in boating and fishing think such is more appropriate for quiet lakes, not in the ocean, especially a polluted area like our industrial zone Wilmington Waterfront. It is my understanding that the pollution aspect of this plan would not be mitigated so the C.E.Q. A. override provision was used to remove liability, if the program went bad, from being imposed on the decision makers; in this case the LA Port Commission. I would suggest that the Wilmington Club be dropped, unless the Navy or Guard sponsors it. Donald Compton Wilmington
“…and had he [George Romney] been born of, uh, Mexican parents, I’d have a better shot at winning this.”
Los Angeles—The California Department of Transportation has released the Draft Environmental Impact Report/Environmental Impact Statement for the Interstate 710 Corridor Project and extended the public comment period through Sept. 28. The project was developed in cooperation with various other agencies. The environmental review involves proposals to improve the Interstate 710 in Los Angeles County between Ocean Boulevard and State Route 60. Major elements include widening the I-710 freeway up to ten general purpose lanes; modernizing and reconfiguring the Interstate 405, State Route 91 and a portion of the Interstate 5 interchanges; modernizing and reconfiguring most local arterial interchanges along the I-710. Written comments may be sent to: Ronald Kosinski, Caltrans District 7, Division of Environmental Planning, 100 South Main Street, MS 16A, Los Angeles, CA 90012, Or send an e-mail through the project website at www.dot.ca.gov/dist07/resources/envdocs/docs/710corridor/
called “Themis” (the Kochs own that) and “DataTrust” (Karl Rove’s satanic machine). The election has not been stolen from Barack Obama — it’s been stolen from you. From We the People who march to the polls believing America is still a democracy, the land of the Brave, home of The Free, and that our votes count. And for my terrible language, I apologize, Greg Palast New York
September 21 - October 4, 2012
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