Thumbing her nose at Thomas Jefferson, Assemblywoman Audra Strickland had sought to knock a big hole in the iron wall of separation between church and state with her religion in schools bill. Not so fast, said a California assembly panel. They stopped her legislation cold.
More Republican shenanigans last week as protesters pretended to be patriots and held tea parties at the urging of conservative commentators. Many blamed Obama for a slide toward socialism. Others claimed he was, of all things, a Muslim, and not an American citizen.
What about the children? asked a group of 22 school superintendents in a recent editorial. They implored Californians to vote yes on Props 1A, 1B, and 1C. If these do not pass, schools will suffer, they said.
It emerged this week that disgraced Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich is a graduate of Pepperdine Law School. How can a school that prides itself on its ethics produce such a person? Oh yes, its dean is Kenneth Starr.
Zoning rules in Thousand Oaks are funky, says Mayor Tom Glancy. He’s right. They are unfair and bad for the city, too.
A church wants to build a complex on open-space land between Thousand Oaks and Simi Valley. We aren’t sure that’s a good idea, says the Board of Supervisors. They halted all development for 45 days.
The unemployment rate for March was 9.6% in Ventura County. Some residents are resorting to self-medication to ease the pain.
More Ventura County residents are using heroin, say officials. Coming soon to a neighborhood near you: junkies breaking into houses.
And they won’t even be able to get a glass of water as they steal your television. Ventura County residents will soon face higher water bills due to a water shortage.
After years of Bush Administration resistance, the EPA decided, preliminarily, that climate change is real, carbon dioxide levels are increasing, and global warming is getting worse. Schwarzenegger applauded.
Blighted Santa Susana Field Laboratory might be transformed into the Santa Susana State Park if Assemblyman Cameron Smyth has his way. All that toxic waste would have to be removed first.
State Assemblyman Mike Duvall is seeking to ban speech he doesn’t agree with. This is why he introduced legislation to forbid antiwar T-shirts that contain the names of dead service members.
A lichen recently discovered on Santa Rosa Island was named after President Obama. Caloplaca obamae was discovered by an amateur botanist.
Audra Strickland
I prefer the lichen
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Russell Burgos // April 23, 2009 at 6:28 am
Audra and Tony….
Gee, for “small-government conservatives” they sure like suckling at the public teat….
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