EDITORIAL : BUCK-PASSING MUST STOP.IT was encouraging to hear federal officials, including Vice President Al Gore Noun 1. Al Gore - Vice President of the United States under Bill Clinton (born in 1948) Albert Gore Jr., Gore and California Sen. Barbara Boxer Barbara Levy Boxer (born November 11, 1940) is an American politician and the current junior U.S. Senator from the State of California. A member of the Democratic Party, Boxer was first elected to the U.S. , promise to slash red tape holding up the removal of vegetation clogging vital flood control channels. Weather forecasters have served notice that winter storms might be more intense than usual due to warm-water El Nino conditions offshore. The assurances made in Santa Monica Santa Monica (săn`tə mŏn`ĭkə), city (1990 pop. 86,905), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1886. Tourism and retailing are important, and the city has motion-picture, biotechnology, and software industries. at a gathering Tuesday of nearly 1,000 local officials, businesspeople and representatives of disaster-relief agencies from throughout the West also were a classic example of the benefits of open government. Federal officials were clearly embarrassed by disclosures that remedial work has been stalled by the Army Corps of Engineers' cumbersome permitting process. But as often is the case in this overly bureaucratic age, the blame for the delays in the Santa Clarita Valley The Santa Clarita Valley is the valley of the Santa Clara River in Southern California. It stretches through Los Angeles County and Ventura County. Its main population center is the city of Santa Clarita. The valley was part of the 48,612-acre (19,672. and elsewhere doesn't rest entirely with the Corps of Engineers. As the Daily News reported Oct. 7, local public works public works pl.n. Construction projects, such as highways or dams, financed by public funds and constructed by a government for the benefit or use of the general public. Noun 1. agencies also needed approvals from the state Department of Fish and Game, regional water quality boards and two other federal agencies. In some instances, work was stalled for as long as two years. This kind of foot-dragging is intolerable. High-velocity runoff from Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, mountains can cause enormous damage, washing away homes and roads as well as the vegetation that some regulators seem determined to protect at any cost. What's needed are some common-sense policies that will allow public agencies to maintain, in a timely way, the design capacity of dedicated flood control facilities. Responsible officials need to pull out all the stops in an effort to resolve these permit hangups administratively. If that's not enough, Congress and the state Legislature A state legislature may refer to a legislative branch or body of a political subdivision in a federal system. The following legislatures exist in the following political subdivisions: We hope the rains this winter fall gently. But if they don't and damage results from the failure of bureaucrats or politicians to allow emergency work to be done, those officials must be exposed and held accountable. |
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