PUBLIC FORUM JUST THE FACTS.Re ``Toilet to tap'' (Nov. 17): We taxpayers have anted up tens of millions of dollars to build the Hyperion Plant for the express purpose of recycling recycling, the process of recovering and reusing waste products—from household use, manufacturing, agriculture, and business—and thereby reducing their burden on the environment. our water. For what? To pour it on the ground? The article offers absolutely no scientific analysis of the recycled water. I couldn't care less about what Gerald Silver or Charles Brink have to say. I want to know what a qualified unbiased analysis of the recycled water is compared with the current water supply and conventional purity standards. Then I can form an educated opinion. If the recycled water doesn't meet the intended standards, then someone has to held accountable. By the way, every drop of water in the world is toilet-to-tap if you think about it. - Scott Wilkerson La Tuna Canyon The highest bidder HIGHEST BIDDER, contracts. He who, at an auction, offers the greatest price for the property sold. 2. The highest bidder is entitled to have the article sold at his bid, provided there has been no unfairness on his part. Hey, check the numbers. Gray Davis spends $68 million on his campaign for governor. Gray Davis wins by 312,068 votes with 2,582,897 votes cast in his favor. That means he spent $26.32 per vote. Do we need political reform? Yes - or we'll all continue to be prostitutes going to the highest bidder. Now just days after the election we find out that the state budget, which Davis downplayed until after the election, shows we're up to our butts in debt - for billions for the next six years, at least. But he never really admitted this. A question to you who voted for Gray Davis: Just how bad does it have to get before you start thinking about your future? - Walter Esser Van Nuys Like they said As a Democrat, I'm enjoying all the whining and bellyaching coming from the right as regards to the re-election of Gray Davis as our governor. I can only say what was said to us Democrats when George W. Bush was sworn in as our president: ``Get over it.'' - Tarleton X. Garton Lancaster It's regrettable In the Nov. 15 Your Opinion, Arnie Moore asked us to ``move on ... (without the whining).'' With all due respect, if all of L.A. were like Sherman Oaks, I'd be happy to. Unfortunately, it's not. I voted for secession because of the positive impact it would have in areas like the Northeast Valley and South Central L.A. Sherman Oaks has a visible police presence, good streets, and the power to bring benefits in. Other areas are not so fortunate. It's regrettable the mayor was able to deceive TO DECEIVE. To induce another either by words or actions, to take that for true which is not so. Wolff, Inst. Nat. Sec. 356. people into believing the 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. would do anything for these communities. - Dianna Witucki Reseda What we need With City Council elections coming upon us, it's time It's Time was a successful political campaign run by the Australian Labor Party (ALP) under Gough Whitlam at the 1972 election in Australia. Campaigning on the perceived need for change after 23 years of conservative (Liberal Party of Australia) government, Labor put forward a to be sure the council members are not again just giving us lip service lip service n. Verbal expression of agreement or allegiance, unsupported by real conviction or action; hypocritical respect: . If the council persons were doing their job and addressing the issues of their constituents in the first place, secession would not have been an issue. District 12 garnered the highest percentage of disgruntled dis·grun·tle tr.v. dis·grun·tled, dis·grun·tling, dis·grun·tles To make discontented. [dis- + gruntle, to grumble (from Middle English gruntelen; see voters. Hal Bernson Hal Bernson served as Los Angeles City Councilman for the 12th district. He was chair of the Transportation Committee. Prior to being on the City Council, he served in the Navy. Preceded by Robert M. is term-limited out and we all have a rare golden opportunity to get new blood into the office. Don't let the opportunity pass. No more double-talking, back-scratching, eye-winking career city politicians who just need a job, any city job. We need an independent, smart, knowledgeable, hard-working, longtime long·time adj. Having existed or persisted for a long time: a longtime friend; a longtime resident of Detroit. longtime Adjective community activist to stand up for us. We need Walter Prince. - J. Ming Granada Hills Tokofsky's independence Recent articles about LAUSD LAUSD Los Angeles Unified School District (Los Angeles, CA) board member David Tokofsky's fiery independence is no surprise. David was David Was (born David Weiss, 26 October 1952, Detroit) is, with his stage-brother Don Was, the founder of the influential 1980s pop group, Was (Not Was). Reviewed by The New York Times the only one who responded to my letter to improve the LAUSD's 403b tax-deferred voluntary retirement benefit plan. This benefit is about as glamorous as a dress on a pig; the other school board members, administrators and the collective bargaining collective bargaining, in labor relations, procedure whereby an employer or employers agree to discuss the conditions of work by bargaining with representatives of the employees, usually a labor union. units chronically ignore this potential incentive. But Tokofsky immediately understood that 403b is a benefit that could be used to help solve the LAUSD's persistent recruitment problem at no cost to taxpayers or the district. How dare this man wants to do the right thing for the hard-working employees of the LAUSD. No wonder the powers that be want to get rid of him. - Stephen A. Schullo 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. Leaving LAUSD My children attended a California public school today. They were able to go to the bathroom whenever they needed to, they could get a drink of water whenever they were thirsty thirst·y adj. thirst·i·er, thirst·i·est 1. Desiring to drink. 2. Arid; parched: thirsty fields. 3. Craving something: thirsty for news. , and they could do those things without fear of teacher retaliation RETALIATION. The act by which a nation or individual treats another in the same manner that the latter has treated them. For example, if a nation should lay a very heavy tariff on American goods, the United States would be justified in return in laying heavy duties on the manufactures and , bullies lurking See lurk. (messaging, jargon) lurking - The activity of one of the "silent majority" in a electronic forum such as Usenet; posting occasionally or not at all but reading the group's postings regularly. about to bother them, or being transferred to a different class. They were able to sit at their desks and do their work in a quiet and supportive atmosphere. They were able to play outside in safety and to enjoy being children. Class size? Two students to one teacher. Where is this school? It is in our own home. Parents, just say ``no'' to the Los Angeles Unified School District The Los Angeles Unified School District (the "LAUSD") is the largest (in terms of number of students) public school system in California and the second-largest in the United States. Only the New York City Department of Education has a larger student population. . We enrolled in a California Charter School years ago and have never even looked back. - Vicki Van Camp Sylmar Parents' role Re ``Teachers faced with society's problems in class'' (Opinion, Nov. 19): Children start learning at home first. Parents are responsible to educate them to have respect for others, proper behavior at home and in public, accepting discipline when warranted, etc. Teachers are not baby sitters. They are there to educate children to attain success at school. They are trained to give their students the education needed to advance to higher levels of understanding, knowledge and performance. The LAUSD has a tremendous role in this. As schools are built to accommodate our ever-increasing student population, they must take steps to hire only the best trained educators, pay them a respectable salary and give them a proper place to do their job. - Nelson Leverage Northridge Freeway traffic solution I read that the Metropolitan Transit Authority has ``solutions'' to improve traffic along the freeways. Now I am really worried. I am sure that 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. mental midgets have not even once considered the logical one. Thanks to Jerry Brown's darling Adrianna Gianturco who had the ``brilliant'' idea of forcing diamond lanes onto our citizens and thus losing additional lanes and clogging up our freeways even more, we are stuck with traffic flow that is nothing short of a disaster. I am positive it has never occurred to the MTA that the logical solution would be to give those very much needed additional lanes back to the drivers. But no - that solution is much too obvious. - Graydon Wayne Canyon Country No plot The Valley and the entire L.A. County has been short-changed by the feds year after year, but I am tired of Valley residents complaining about the Red Line subway. The MTA specifically routed the third and fourth segments north to serve the Valley. However, after these segments created cost overruns Noun 1. cost overrun - excess of cost over budget; "the cost overrun necessitated an additional allocation of funds in the budget" cost - the total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor , people of L.A. County (including the Valley) voted down subway construction before the Red Line could be extended west to Warner Center. The MTA did not plot against the Valley while building the subway. The original idea was to connect the Valley with the rest of Los Angeles. - Martin Culjat Los Angeles They served Re ``Inappropriate Behavior'' (Your Opinion, Nov. 14): That ``beyond-draft-age crowd wearing vets hats'' being given tribute by President George Bush, that you criticize, are composed of the proud Americans who served and are serving our country in the armed forces in times of war and peace. President John Kennedy said, ``Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.'' What have you ever done for your country, other than criticize? - Louis Thompson Woodland Hills |
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