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Mailbag: Saving the Earth hardly starts with fire pits
Melville tells us in the opening lines of "Moby Dick:" "Let the most absent-minded of men be plunged in his deepest reveries — stand that man on his legs, set his feet a-going and he will infallibly lead you to water, if water there be in all...Tags: Environmental Pollution, Politics, Auction Service, Environmental Issues, United Nations
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Commentary: Carchio and Harper don't know their own bag
Differences of opinion among elected officials should be valued and respected because they contribute to the legislative process, but they should also be scrutinized. Two council members recently expressed opinions worthy of scrutiny while discussing...Tags: Public Officials, Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Interior Policy, Religion and Belief
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Commentary: Government is reason for high tuition, not solution
This is in response to the Feb. 21 letter to the H.B. Independent ("Affordability is essential to higher education") in which two well-meaning Cal State Long Beach students suggest President Barack Obama intervene to lower college costs. In the...Tags: Politics, California State University, Long Beach, Teaching and Learning, Colleges and Universities, Government Health Care
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Former Fountain Valley mayor dies
Gus Ayer, the former mayor of Fountain Valley and an avid environmentalist, died Wednesday night. He was 63. According to his oldest son, Ethan, the cause of his death is still pending, but he was found at his Fountain Valley home by his youngest son,...
Tags: Local Elections, Politics, Orange (New Haven, Connecticut), Middletown, Civil and Public Service
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Mailbag: Thank you for being there
Is it true that they are just waiting for me to come along? It certainly seems that way. At Vons I get tired. When I get tired I don't stand up straight when I walk and the walker or the grocery cart gets out in front of me, leaving me almost horizontal...Tags: Public Officials, Politics, Southern California Edison Company, Finance, Economy, Business and Finance
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O'Connell ready for the tough decisions
He says he knows what it is like to deal with difficult situations, to balance budgets and to instill hope in those who have given up on themselves. Those characteristics, coupled with his experience as a former Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy and...
Tags: Politics, Local Elections, Sandra Hutchens, Business, Sales
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Commentary: Measure Z invites community solution
While Measure Z clearly removes a tax, the issue is indeed far from simple. But first, the easier part to understand: Currently residents and businesses alike subsidize the employee portion of our public employee pensions though an assessment included...Tags: Politics, Property Tax, Public Employees, Interior Policy, Pension and Welfare
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Sullivan is stepping up to the plate
He'd rather be playing senior softball. But at 75, Dave Sullivan says he instead wants to help Huntington Beach thrive, and it's why he's running for City Council for the fourth time. The more-than-four-decade resident is worried about the city's fiscal...Tags: Local Government, Politics, Bankruptcy, Career and Workplace, World War II (1939-1945)
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Resident says councilman sought special treatment
A Huntington Beach woman is questioning why the police chief sent an officer to a non-injury car accident involving a councilman's wife. Budget cuts forced police to stop taking reports at most minor collisions, and 15-year resident Heather Dillard asked...Tags: Politics, Motorvehicle Accidents, Disasters and Accidents, Transportation Accidents, Budgets and Budgeting
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Katapodis back on campaign trail
Jim Katapodis will be ready to run with the big dogs if he's elected to the Huntington Beach City Council this year. In part, that's because he's gotten used to big dogs on the campaign trail. Those growling canines often approach the door when the...
Tags: Los Angeles Police Department, Local Elections, Politics, Small Businesses, National September 11 Memorial & Museum
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Pension reform main topic at candidate forum
If the head negotiators from the Huntington Beach police and fire associations had had a podium of their own during Monday's night's Surf City Tea Party candidate forum, it might have turned into the free-for-all of the year. Instead, the employee groups...
Tags: Local Elections, Politics, Mitt Romney, Tea Party Movement, Interior Policy
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Tax measure opponents take midnight ride
Save Our HB members walked en masse at midnight Monday to make known their opposition to a ballot initiative that would repeal a special property tax. The tax helps fund the retirements of public safety employees. Measure Z on the November ballot would...
Tags: Voting, Politics, Interior Policy, Pension and Welfare, Elections
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