PUBLIC FORUM DWP MISMANAGEMENT.I totally support your Nov. 21 editorial regarding DWP DWP Department of Work and Pensions (UK) DWP Drinking Water Program DWP Dynamic Weapon Pricing (gamin, Counter-Strike: Source) DWP Department of Water & Power DWP Drinking Water Protection management avoidingaccountability for exorbitant spending. Kudos to Controller Laura Chickfor questioning DWP management for waste and staff salaries. Our mayor and City Council people should go to bat in support of Chick. It's really about time that DWP management clarifies respective roles and relationships in terms of value received for top-heavy salaries. It's also about time that someone in DWP management get demoted for participation in DWP deceit. It's also about time that taxpayers and voters get value receivedfrom elected officials and DWP bureaucrats. - Jerry Domine Winnetka DWP spending We agree with Councilman Greig Smith's letter to the editor (Your Opinions, Nov. 24). The DWP has been wasting millions of our money for frivolous projects, fancy dinners, unbelievable pay raises, needless out-of-town trips, fancy expense accounts, an overpaid o·ver·pay v. o·ver·paid , o·ver·pay·ing, o·ver·pays v.tr. 1. To pay (a party) too much. 2. To pay an amount in excess of (a sum due). v.intr. To pay too much. Sacramento lobbyist, Dodgers game billboards, and now - even a Rose Parade float? What for? City Controller Laura Chick found all kinds of uncalled-for spending.Why should the taxpayer put up with such lavish "expenses" and, in theend, have to pay for it all by accepting an 18 percent increasein our bills? We hope Councilman Tony Cardenas Tony Cardenas served in the California State Assembly. In the Assembly, he had the powerful position of chair of the Budget Committee. He is now a Los Angeles City Councilman, representing the 6th district, which includes parts of the San Fernando Valley. gets some good answers soon. This is simply outrageous. - Frank Neumeister Sylmar Carry that weight Thousands of poor and lower-income middle-class people voted to electArnold governor. The first thing he does is repeal the reinstatedvehicle registration fee so that some $4 billion (just this year) has tobe financed with a bond issue. So these people, either with noautomobile at all or one from the '80s or early '90s will now bepaying higher taxes over the next 20 or 30 years so that fat cats paylower ``car taxes'' on their brand new SUVs. You voted for him. Now payfor it. - Pat O'Malley Pat O'Malley may refer to:
Tujunga Tragedy and heroism Regarding your headline ``Saluting a hero'' (Nov. 22), on the funeral of Matthew Pavelka, the young Burbank police officer recently gunned down. However sad and tragic as Matthew Pavelka's death was, the word ``hero'' does not apply. Though the loss was great, the fact remains that Officer Pavelka did not die while performing any heroic act, he died because some young punk shot him in cold blood while he was performing his duty in a routine traffic stop, not in the performance of some heroic deed. The misuse of the word ``hero'' detracts from the others who were killed while in the performance of a heroic act such as putting themselves in harm's way harm's way n. A risky position; danger: a place for the children that is out of harm's way; ships that sail into harm's way. in the performance of their job above and beyond the call of duty. - Jason Miranda-Levi Northridge Where's he going? Watching the Michael Jackson Noun 1. Michael Jackson - United States singer who began singing with his four brothers and later became a highly successful star during the 1980s (born in 1958) Michael Joe Jackson, Jackson media circus media circus n → excesivo despliegue informativo media circus n (= event) → battage m médiatique (= group of journalists); cortège m , I had to grin at the $3 million bail imposed to ensure that he won't flee the trial. With every reporter in the Free World following him, backed up by more helicopters than the Air Force has, and the fact that everyone in the world knows what he looks like, where's he going to go? - Kevin Petersen Santa Ana Santa Ana, city, El Salvador Santa Ana (sän'tä ä`nä), city (1993 pop. 129,873), W El Salvador. It is the second largest city in the country and the commercial and processing center for a sugarcane, coffee, and cattle region. No thanks to the V.A. I came to visit my daughter in Moorpark. We are native Californians. I reside now in Utah. I want to thank all the firemen and volunteers for a job well done on the fires, and for caring, but no thanks to the Veterans Administration clinic in Oxnard or to the man behind the desk. I'm a Korean War Korean War, conflict between Communist and non-Communist forces in Korea from June 25, 1950, to July 27, 1953. At the end of World War II, Korea was divided at the 38th parallel into Soviet (North Korean) and U.S. (South Korean) zones of occupation. vet and I have asthma. I came here when the smoke was the worst and my lungs got tight and my chest hurt. I needed help. I needed a breathing medication treatment. I was taken to the V.A. Clinic just to be turned down. They said they did not take walk-ins. It only takes 5-10 minutes for a treatment, but instead they wanted to send me to 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. on the bus. I went home and borrowed a breathing machine. I'm fine now, but no thanks to the V.A. Can we reform the V.A. in Oxnard or the man behind the desk? - Harry Ayala Kamas, Utah Kamas is a city in Summit County, Utah, United States. The population was 1,274 at the 2000 census. The main industries are cattle ranching and tourism. The town is known to outsiders as "The Gateway to the Uintas. Market strikers Re ``R-E-S-P-E-C-T'' (Your Opinions, Nov. 21): Employees have a ``right'' to a minimum wage. I would guess that the health-care plan being offered is better than whatever, if anything, is mandated by law. Any compensation above what is legally mandated is a concession from employers in order to hire and maintain the type of work force required to meet their goals. It is an employer's right to decide what type of work force they require, and to compensate appropriately. Instead of forming mobs to intimidate customers in an attempt to extort To compel or coerce, as in a confession or information, by any means serving to overcome the other's power of resistance, thus making the confession or admission involuntary. To gain by wrongful methods; to obtain in an unlawful manner, as in to compel payments by means of threats of more compensation than their employers feel they are worth, perhaps the market strikers should exercise their right to resign and seek employment where they'll feel more fairly compensated. - Bob Lauria Thousand Oaks Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown. Bus service I suppose I should be grateful the MTA (1) (Message Transfer Agent or Mail Transfer Agent) The store and forward part of a messaging system. See messaging system. (2) See M Technology Association. 1. (messaging) MTA - Message Transfer Agent. strike is over. On the other hand, the situation on Ventura Boulevard Ventura Boulevard is one of the primary east-west thouroughfares in the San Fernando Valley; as it was originally a part of the El Camino Real (the trail between Spanish missions), Ventura Boulevard is the oldest route in the San Fernando Valley. It was also U.S. is still intolerable. A major Encino intersection is Ventura and Hayvenhurst. Two supermarkets, a huge book store, a bank, a card shop and a coffee emporium are among the enterprises these. Yet when I came out of the supermarket, which was not on strike, I waited 30 minutes for a Route 150 bus while six Route 250s came by. They only stop at Balboa and Woodley. This was at 5 p.m. Ventura Boulevard is the major street in the Valley. It is our Wilshire, yet local bus service is terrible. Same thing is true at the government center in Van Nuys, only in reverse. The Route 761 buses stop four or five blocks from the civic building, between the car dealerships. MTA assures me this will never change. - Rick Rofman Van Nuys Hey, big spender Noun 1. big spender - one who spends lavishly and ostentatiously on entertainment; "the last of the big spenders" high roller scattergood, spend-all, spendthrift, spender - someone who spends money prodigally I find it bizarre that our president would take no less than five personal chefs to Buckingham Palace Buckingham Palace (bŭk`ĭng-əm), residence of British sovereigns from 1837, in Westminster metropolitan borough, London, England, adjacent to St. James's Park. . Does George Bush know how to waste money - or what? - Billy Cruce Quartz Hill A good neighbor Re ``If you have to ask'' (Your Opinions, Nov. 7): I am not a Canadian, but I find Mike Rubell's comments about Canada rather sad. Whether or not we have saved Canada's bacon in the past, they were there saving bacon in World War I and World War II before we were. They were in Korea with Britain and Australia helping to save a little bacon too. Because they joined with France, Germany, Russia and China in not approving George Bush's efforts in Iraq, that doesn't make them bad at all. Thank you, Canada, for being prepared to help a neighbor as I'm sure we would help them if requested. - Eric Jones
Lancaster Smashing pumpkins Apparently there is an excess of pumpkins this year and they have become ``weapons of mass destruction'' of mailboxes. My curbside mailbox has been demolished three times in the past two weeks by pumpkin-throwing vandals. They come around in the middle of the night and smash pumpkins into mailboxes, demolishing them and leaving broken pumpkin pieces all over the yards and street. When you drive around the neighborhood in the morning, you see smashed pumpkin pieces where they have attacked other mailboxes. Why they vent their anger on mailboxes is a mystery to me. I now understand why so many are built into concrete block posts to protect them. - Gerald Rowe West Hills Who knew? Every once in a while a photo in the paper cries out for a new caption. One such, of Bush and Tony Blair Noun 1. Tony Blair - British statesman who became prime minister in 1997 (born in 1953) Anthony Charles Lynton Blair, Blair eyeing each other from behind their podiums, appeared on Page 11 of the Nov. 21 issue. You ought to conduct a contest for a news caption for this picture. My entry would have Tony Blair saying to his quest, ``Really? I'm not wearing pants either!'' - Michael Leviton Encino |
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