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		<title>Friday Round-Up: Psychopaths, Parks Closing, Bad DA Behavior and More</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 09:21:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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EVEN DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION, CALIFORNIA KEPT ITS PARKS OPEN, BUT ALL THAT CHANGES IN SEPTEMBER
Speaking personally, I am still having a hard time believing that the state&#8217;s scheduled parks closure will truly occur, but Timothy Egan&#8217;s NY Times Op-ed brings home the mind-numbing reality that California may really shutter some of its most irreplaceable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 Monday Must Reads</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 08:31:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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POLITICS TRUMPS SCIENCE:  MT &#38; IDAHO WOLVES REMOVED FROM THE ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT
In a completely incredible move that flew beneath the radar of many, and completely bypassed the interest threshold of others, Senator Jon Testor and Rep. Mike Simpson  from Montana and Arizona respectively, managed to get an inconspicuous, 11 line rider on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Note to Self:  Do Not Crash Tanker on Island Where Nat Geo Photog is Working</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 08:03:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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GOOD magazine has the story:
Can you think of a worse place to wreck an oil tanker than a beautiful, pristine island in the South Atlantic where a National Geographic photographer just happens to be on assignment shooting endangered birds?
Photographer Andrew Evans was &#8220;following a lifelong dream&#8221; photographing endangered Northern Rockhopper Penguins on the remote Nightingale [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Real-Time, L.A.-Based Radiation Monitor Says Stop Freaking Out</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 21:40:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>

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This radiation freak out reality check is courtesy of GOOD magazine.  Here&#8217;s the heart of it.:
For anyone terrified that radiation from Japan is coming to cause devastation in America, something the chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has already called &#8220;very unlikely,&#8221; keep an eye on this real-time radiation detector courtesy of EnviroReporter.com.
According to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thinking of Japan, the Blocked California Budget and More</title>
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		<comments>http://witnessla.com/environment/2011/admin/thinking-of-japan-the-blocked-california-budget-and-more/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 08:09:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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MEMORIES OF JAPAN, SOME INDELIBLE, SOME WASHED AWAY
The frightening news out of Japan cannot help but hold our attention,  as heroic engineers at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station  continue to try to save the plant&#8217;s crippled nuclear reactors from meltdown. 
But, in addition to the devastating TV news reports, please do yourself [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can We Keep Our State Parks Healthy Post Prop 21&#8217;s Crash &amp; Burn?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 07:10:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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On Tuesday, voters rejected Prop. 21, the ballot measure that would have added $18 to most vehicle registrations and allocated that money to support California&#8217;s state parks.
And not only did the voters of California nix Prop 21, they did so by a healthy margin&#8212;with 58 percent voting NO.
So what does that mean?  Nobody feels [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Battling LA Histories at Father Serra Park:  Who Screwed Up?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:59:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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The city of Los Angeles is in the process of building a brand new war memorial  named the Eugene A. Obregon Congressional Medal of Honor Memorial, which is to honor all those who have won the medal.  
Okay, so far so good.
As the San Jose Mercury News reports:
Crews have nearly finished the first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Floating Garbage Nation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:18:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>
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One should not miss Lindsey Hoshaw&#8217;s  gruesomely fascinating article in Tuesday&#8217;s NY Times, about the vast garbage islands in the Pacific.   
Most of us had heard about these giant floating garbage collections, but somehow Hoshaw has gone the needed distance to make us feel how impossibly and fantastically  awful these land [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forget it, Jake.  It&#8217;s the DWP.</title>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/environment/2009/admin/forget-it-jake-its-the-dwp/</link>
		<comments>http://witnessla.com/environment/2009/admin/forget-it-jake-its-the-dwp/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 03:55:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[LA City Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>

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&#8220;Can you believe it? We&#8217;re in the middle of a drought, and the water commissioner drowns. Only in L.A.&#8221;  Chinatown

Except in our case,  we&#8217;re in the middle of a drought and a budget crisis, and our fired&#8212;excuse me&#8212;recently resigned head of the DWP, David Nahai, is not drowning in the least.  Instead [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social Justice Shorts</title>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/education/2009/admin/social-justice-shorts-17/</link>
		<comments>http://witnessla.com/education/2009/admin/social-justice-shorts-17/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 08:54:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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ARNOLD STEPS IN TO SAVE STATE PARKS&#8212;BUT MAYBE NOT FOR THE REASON HE SAYS
This past Friday, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger jumped into the budgetary breach with a plan to miraculously rescue 100 state parks from closing (the same 100 he had personally and unilaterally elected to close, but okay.  A niggling point).  
The story [...]]]></description>
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