PUBLIC FORUM : SMOKING INSPECTORS.The city has funded two inspectors at a cost of $250,000 to enforce the law against smoking in bars and restaurants. If they work together eight hours a day, five days a week, and spend 10 minutes per establishment, they will cover 240 sites a week. At that rate, it will take approximately 2-1/2 years to cover each of the 3,000 facilities in 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. . I would like someone at City Hall to explain why the inspectors cannot work independently to provide somewhat greater coverage. Also, I am curious about any special training required for this position. Does the $125,000 per inspector include medical and pension benefits as well as a car? Where can someone go to apply for the position?? - Bruce Feitelberg Tarzana Losing choice How have we become complacent enough over the years to allow big government to control our lives? Being a native here of 61 years, I have watched our state dwindle dwin·dle v. dwin·dled, dwin·dling, dwin·dles v.intr. To become gradually less until little remains. v.tr. To cause to dwindle. See Synonyms at decrease. from free choice to no choice in a very short time. We seem to have imported a large contingent of Puritans and liberals to oversee our little lives. The ordinance requiring nonsmoking non·smok·ing adj. 1. Not engaging in the smoking of tobacco: nonsmoking passengers. 2. Designated or reserved for nonsmokers: the nonsmoking section of a restaurant. sections in bars and restaurants worked famously. For the most part, these same establishments divided sections for smokers and nonsmokers and, in many cases, increased their air-flow capacity. Employees could choose their respective section. Now that we seem to have the puritanical and liberal faction of government in control, we are losing what these factions despise the most: choice and free enterprise. I hope that each smoker or establishment operator fined for breaching the smoking ban pulls together, unites and opts for the minimal jail time so as to flood our courts with this ridiculous, futile law. - Louis Thompson Woodland Hills Take the smoke outside Regarding what we hope will be enforcement of the righteous ban on smoking in bars: It is good to hear that the very righteous law, prohibiting smoking in bars, is finally being enforced, although enforcement is still underfunded un·der·fund tr.v. un·der·fund·ed, un·der·fund·ing, un·der·funds To provide insufficient funding for. underfunded adj → infradotado (económicamente) and the health department would be a more logical choice than the Los Angeles Fire Department The Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD), also known as the Los Angeles City Fire Department to distinguish it from the Los Angeles County Fire Department. It is the agency that provides fire protection and emergency medical services for the city of Los Angeles. to enforce the ban. If accurate surveys were to be taken, most Californians are nonsmokers; therefore, it will eventually help the bar business, just as it did the restaurant industry, to respect the air that others must breathe and to take the smoke outside. - Howard Raymond Hollywood No adjective conservative A compassionate, conservative Bush sounds a lot like a kinder, gentler Bush; doesn't it? Conservatism does not need any adjectives. It is not only kinder and gentler, but also more compassionate, than the liberalism that has continuously marched us in a direction of more and more subjugation Subjugation Cushan-rishathaim Aram king to whom God sold Israelites. [O.T.: Judges 3:8] Gibeonites consigned to servitude in retribution for trickery. [O.T.: Joshua 9:22–27] Ham Noah curses him and progeny to servitude. [O. . A conservative who needs adjectives does not understand the brutality of the liberal doctrine. That conservative is nothing short of another liberal in disguise. A few of our richer minority citizens have indeed become richer through liberalism, leaving the bulk of their fellows in a status quo [Latin, The existing state of things at any given date.] Status quo ante bellum means the state of things before the war. The status quo to be preserved by a preliminary injunction is the last actual, peaceable, uncontested status which preceded the pending controversy. at a time of financial growth unseen in history. A few women espousing liberal ideas have improved their situation at a great cost to the mass of women, mothers and girls. Middle-class families are being torn apart by the increasing need for both parents to work. For a family earning $35,000 a year, our deceptive tax structure - including federal income taxes, state income taxes, sales taxes and other taxes - requires the equivalent of a full salary of one spouse. - E.R. DuCharme Chatsworth New gun in town Regarding ``Firearms can be used for good as well as evil'' (Personal Perspective, July 25): Yahoo, pardners There's a new sheriff in town, and he harkens to the name of Si Frumkin, chairman of the 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, Council for Soviet Jews. Rootin' tootin' Si admitted to the world that he blasted his trusty shootin' iron into the air to break up confrontations. I have a few questions. Since Frumkin admitted that he carried the firearm with him, does he have a carry permit? Did he hit anything? Unless Newton's law Noun 1. Newton's law - one of three basic laws of classical mechanics law of motion, Newton's law of motion law of nature, law - a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature; "the laws of thermodynamics" of physics has changed since I went to school, I do believe that what goes up must come down. Those bullets he blasted into the air landed somewhere. Where, oh where, did they land? Is Frumkin aware that firing a weapon into the air in Los Angeles city limits is a crime? (Remember July Fourth and New Year's Eve?) Does Frumkin really believe, as he stated, that reporting these incidents to the local police is pointless? - Michael Manning Van Nuys Huge step backward Regarding ``Women's health Women's Health Definition Women's health is the effect of gender on disease and health that encompasses a broad range of biological and psychosocial issues. too often viewed only in reproductive terms'' (Viewpoint, July 25): I fear that having a so-called women's specialty would be a huge step backward - to a general practitioner general practitioner n. Abbr. GP A physician whose practice consists of providing ongoing care covering a variety of medical problems in patients of all ages, often including referral to appropriate specialists. for women with the abilities to do lots of things, none of them expertly. Train the internists and their multiple subspecialists, as well as other medical doctors, to take care of women properly in their fields of expertise. And, yes, they can do Pap smears, pelvic exams and breast checks, just as any competent nurse-practitioner can. But who would you seek out to care for you when you were pregnant, or who would you consult with a gynecologic gynecologic /gy·ne·co·log·ic/ (gi?ne-) (jin?e-kah-loj´ik) pertaining to the female reproductive tract or to gynecology. problem, either medical or surgical? Would you prefer a jack-of-all-trades and master of none or an obstetrician-gynecologist? And, yes, we need more time per visit, regardless of the designation. Although I am an obstetrician-gynecologist, this is not an expression of self-interest, since I am at retirement age and the changes, if they occur, will come after I am finished practicing. I'd still want my wife and/or daughters to see an obstetrician-gynecologist for ob-gyn problems. - Arthur A. Fleisher II, M.D. Northridge Disciplining children Re ``Damned if you do'' (Public Forum, July 26): The writer says that, as he understands the law, parents have no right to discipline their children. He then laments that if only spanking spanking Pediatrics Corporal punishment, usually of children, in which the buttocks, are pummeled, swatted, or otherwise struck. See Corporal punishment Sexology Slapping, usually of the buttocks as a part of sexuoerotic activity. Cf Sadomasochism. were not illegal, things would go back to the way they used to be when spanking was successful. When exactly were those times - the radical '60s, the drug-filled '70s, the selfish '80s, etc.? I don't believe that spanking your child is illegal, although it certainly should be. But the worst thing in his letter is the suggestion that any person who is against hitting children is also against disciplining children. Discipline has nothing whatsoever to do with hitting or punishing. Disciplining means teaching - modeling the behavior that you would like to see your child exhibit as your disciple. That to me is discipline. You know that old spare-the-rod saying? I think it actually means the rod of discipline, and you use the end to hook your child back in when the child goes astray a·stray adv. 1. Away from the correct path or direction. See Synonyms at amiss. 2. Away from the right or good, as in thought or behavior; straying to or into wrong or evil ways. . I know you're not supposed to hit a child with it. Sadly enough, though, if you do, it probably wouldn't be against the law. - Kim VanKirk Granada Hills License puppies at birth Re $100 license fee for unmutilated dogs: Years ago, some smart person decided it would be a good idea to license dogs. The thinking was that, if a dog is caught by the dog catcher, the owner could be identified and the dog returned, instead of being put to sleep. The license fee, like all license fees, was to cover the cost of the program and only the cost of the program. Now big nanny wants to control behavior through the implementation of penalty fees. This is unconscionable Unusually harsh and shocking to the conscience; that which is so grossly unfair that a court will proscribe it. When a court uses the word unconscionable to describe conduct, it means that the conduct does not conform to the dictates of conscience. . What if every sport utility vehicle driver had to pay more for a driver's license Noun 1. driver's license - a license authorizing the bearer to drive a motor vehicle driver's licence, driving licence, driving license license, permit, licence - a legal document giving official permission to do something ? The simple solution is to make people who let their dogs have puppies license them all upon birth. That way, everybody pays the same for a license, but the people who are actually responsible for the problem pay more. The majority of dog owners who have intact animals do not let them breed. - Scott Jones Scott Jones may refer to:
North Hollywood Dog still missing Thank you for the printing the plea by Charles Johnson Charles Johnson may refer to:
Certainly there are many cruel people in this world who do horrible things to animals; however, in this case there is a good reason to believe Jeanie may have jumped up on the latched, but unlocked, gate in Johnson's back yard and opened it herself. She is a very friendly dog and may be with some well-meaning person who is reluctant to take an older overweight German shepherd-mix to the shelter. Jeanie was lost on July 7 near Vanowen Street and Lindley Avenue. She loves children and was possibly seen at Bertrand Street School later that day. At that time, she was wearing a red nylon mesh collar with a Los Angeles city license and a 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 tag. The tag had the wrong phone number on it. Jeanie is spayed spay tr.v. spayed, spay·ing, spays To remove surgically the ovaries of (an animal). [Middle English spaien, from Anglo-Norman espeier, to cut with a sword . She is black with tan markings and a white chest. Johnson is 84 years old. He is visiting the West Valley and East Valley shelters almost daily. If any think they have seen Jeanie, please call (213) 413-SPAY anytime. - Phyllis M. Daugherty Los Angeles CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Fire inspector Brian Jones For other persons named Brian Jones, see Brian Jones (disambiguation). Lewis Brian Hopkin Jones (28 February 1942 – 3 July 1969) was a founding member, guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, and backing singer in the English rock group The Rolling Stones. , working on the anti-smoking detail ordered by the Los Angeles City Council  The Los Angeles City Council is the governing body of the City of Los Angeles, California, United States. , talks with a bartender at Residuals in Van Nuys. David R. Crane/Staff Photographer |
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