Tag Archives: Los Angeles Times

4 Apr

Steve Poisoner

..ehr, I mean “Poizner”; but his name might as well be “poisoner”, though.  He’s been attacking economic refugees by calling them “illegal aliens” and going all Lou Dobbs on them.  Current Insurance Commissioner Poizner has been doing this in a particularly...
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17 Mar

Happy Mexican St. Patrick’s Day!

The Saint Patrick's Battalion (Spanish: Batallón de San Patricio) was a unit of 175 to several hundred immigrants (accounts vary) and expatriates of European descent who fought as part of the Mexican Army against the United States in the Mexican-American...
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16 Dec

A Day Without A Bag

This will be the 3rd annual event that the Heal the Bay staff will have pulled off in L.A. County.  I remember my first “A Day Without A Bag” event like it was yesterday, being assigned to an El Monte site. ...
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3 Jun

Parks & trees reduce crime

As an environmentalist working in South Central L.A., I have often encountered the same misconceptions about trees, animals, and well, just nature in general over and over again.  “I know this area and if you build a park in this neighborhood it will...
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