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ACLU files lawsuit challenging NSA's Patriot Act Phone Surveillance In the wake of the past week's revelations about the NSA's unprecedented mass surveillance of phone calls, the ACLU has filed a lawsuit charging that the program violates Americans' constitutional rights of free speech, association, and privacy. This lawsuit comes a day after the ACLU submitted a motion to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) seeking the release of secret court opinions on the Patriot Act's Section 215, which has been interpreted to authoPlease see page 7
Rhetoric mounting in Garvey School District Superintendent's extra $52,000 raises questions
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$265 Million Gold Line maintenance yard in Monrovia now 30% complete Facility is on schedule to receive light rail vehicles early 2015
Metro Gold Line Foothill Extension Construction Authority (Construction Authority) announced a milestone in the completion of the 24-acre, $265 million Gold Line Operations Campus. Crews have now completed all design
work, nearly 30 percent of construction, and nearly all underground utility installation. The Operations Campus is being built as part of the Metro Gold Line Foothill Extension light rail project from Pasadena to
Local car wash offers free Gold Line construction viewing
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-Photo by Terry Miller
Cleanliness in next to Gold Line mess - We’ve always loved George Fas-
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Azusa, and broke ground in September 2012. To date, all former buildings and a former frontage road on the southern boundary of the property have been demolished, the grade of the property has been significantly altered, and an
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5 dead in Santa Monica shooting
extensive system of underground utilities has been installed. “Hundreds of thousands of cubic yards of soil have been moved around the site over the last eight
Six people were transported to hospitals Friday morning after a shooting and crime spree in the Santa Monica College area. Two bodies were initially found by firefighters inside a home near campus that the gunman allegedly set on fire according to the Los Angeles Times. A fifth victim of the Santa Monica shooting rampage died Sunday as Santa Monica College students and staff tried to cope with the violence . Marcela Franco, 26, died with her family by her side at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica College officials announced. Marcela, who had just enrolled for summer classes at the school, and her father, Carlos Navarro Franco, 68, a groundskeeper at the college, were shot in the father's SUV in a campus parking lot. Authorities are still
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Tracks being made for Gold Line maintenance yard in Monrovia show significant progress. -Photo by Terry Miller
BY SHEL SEGAL As the Garvey School District Board of Education tries to negotiate a new contract with the Garvey Education Association, rhetoric surrounding the talks on both sides is mounting. With the union and
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United States and China agree to work together on phase down of HFCs President Obama and President Xi agreed on an important new step to confront global climate change. For the first time, the United States and China will work together and with other countries to use the expertise and institutions of the Montreal Protocol to phase down the consumption and production of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), among other forms of multilateral cooperation. A global phase down of HFCs could potentially reduce some 90 gigatons of CO2 equivalent by 2050, equal to roughly two Please see page 27
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