BRIEFLY ANIMAL FACILITIES SET TO GET GRADES.The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is the five member governing board of Los Angeles County, California. Members of the board of supervisors are elected by district, the current members as of April 2006 are:
The cards to be posted at pet groomers, animal shelters and pet shops will show the letter grade earned by the animal facility as reflected in its most recent animal inspection report. - Daily News Tow truck firms crackdown target Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. police said Tuesday that they plan to crack down on tow truck companies that aggressively tow vehicles from private property without warning and for minor violations. Seven tow companies account for about 75 percent of complaints to Los Angeles police about towing vehicles with little or no cause in order to get money from drivers, according to information presented Tuesday to the Los Angeles Police Commission. Two of the seven companies are based in the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. . - Daily News Hertzberg drops L.A. borough plan Bob Hertzberg, the former state Assembly speaker who is running for Los Angeles mayor, said Monday night that he has dropped his proposal to carve Los Angeles into mostly self-governing boroughs. Instead, Hertzberg told the advocacy group Valley Voters Organized Toward Empowerment he would work to increase the power of advisory neighborhood councils. Hertzberg didn't specify what measures he would take to ``put (neighborhood councils) on steroids.'' - Daily News Attacking coyote coyote (kī`ōt, kīō`tē) or prairie wolf, small, swift wolf, Canis latrans, native to W North America. It is found in deserts, prairies, open woodlands, and brush country; it is also called brush wolf. cleared of rabies rabies (rā`bēz, ră`–) or hydrophobia (hī'drəfō`bēə), acute viral infection of the central nervous system in dogs, foxes, raccoons, skunks, bats, and other animals, and in SIMI VALLEY - A female coyote that attacked four Simi Valley children playing outside their homes in the Wood Ranch area near the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Center for Public Affairs on June 6 was not rabid, according to officials. The full-grown coyote was fatally shot by Simi Valley police the night of the attacks. She was subject to testing by the Ventura County Animal Regulation Department and the state's Fish and Game department, which concluded that the animal did not have rabies when it attacked the boys ranging from 2 to 8 years old. - Daily News Eli Broad named museum trustee Southland philanthropist Eli Broad was named a life trustee of the Museum of Contemporary Art, officials announced Tuesday. The move by the MOCA MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art MOCA Multimedia over Coax MoCA Museum of Chinese in the Americas MOCA Minnesota Ovarian Cancer Alliance MOCA Montezuma Castle National Monument (US National Park Service) board honors Broad for his contributions to the success and growth of the Los Angeles museum. - City News Service Needle exchange program needle exchange program Syringe exchange program Public health Any program intended to slow the spread of AIDS among IV drug users, in which a governmental or charitable agency exchanges sterile needles for dirty, potentially HIV-contaminated needles used by IVDAs backed The Los Angeles City Council  The Los Angeles City Council is the governing body of the City of Los Angeles, California, United States. went on record Tuesday in support of a
state clean needle exchange program.
Councilman Greig Smith was the sole dissenter as the council backed a state measure that that would continue the clean needle and syringe exchange program syringe exchange program Needle exchange program, see there that has been in effect for more than a decade. ``I am concerned that a program like this encourages crime and a drug lifestyle,'' Smith said. City officials said the program was started to reduce the incidence of AIDS and other diseases among drug addicts. - Daily News City's fire merger plan is scrubbed SANTA PAULA - The city has jettisoned plans to merge its fire department with Ventura County's and instead will pin funding hopes on a utility-tax initiative to go before Santa Paula voters in November. - Daily News |
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