PUBLIC FORUM WE PAY ANYWAY.Re ``Secession backer, critic debate issue'' (July 31): Larry Levine has the audacity to state that the ``residents of the new Valley city will have to pay $1.3 billion over the next 20 years and receive no services in return.'' Uh, Earth to Larry: We are already paying $127 million a year for services we don't receive. If we stay part of the Valley for the next 20 years, we'll pay at least $2.54 billion for services that we don't receive. The truth is that the new Valley city will save $1.24 billion in tax revenue that can spent here in our community. - Mark Steele Porter Ranch What arrogance So Richard Katz and company compare themselves with our country's Founding Fathers? What arrogance. This movement reminds me, as a descendant of African slaves, not so much of the American Revolution American Revolution, 1775–83, struggle by which the Thirteen Colonies on the Atlantic seaboard of North America won independence from Great Britain and became the United States. It is also called the American War of Independence. as of the American South's attempt to secede from the United States of America UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. The name of this country. The United States, now thirty-one in number, are Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, . That secession would harm the interests of the East Valley's non-Anglo and nonwhite non·white n. A person who is not white. non  white adj. majority is suggested by the fact that both the
Mexican- American Legal Defense and Educational Fund and the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), organization composed mainly of American blacks, but with many white members, whose goal is the end of racial discrimination and segregation. oppose it. But
secession also endangers fixed-income seniors, renters and struggling
working-poor families. That is why the cautious, responsible League of
Women Voters League of Women Voters, voluntary public service organization of U.S. citizens. Organized in 1920 in Chicago as an outgrowth of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, it had as its original nucleus the leaders of the latter organization. opposes secession and why we should vote it down.
- Myrna Hill Sylmar Pay taxes and vote With lies, innuendos and just plain influence-peddling, the Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times Morning daily newspaper. Established in 1881, it was purchased and incorporated in 1884 by Harrison Gray Otis (1837–1917) under The Times-Mirror Co. (the hyphen was later dropped from the name). , the downtown developers, Mayor James Hahn For the Iowa politician, see . James Kenneth "Jim" Hahn (born July 3, 1950) is an American politician from the Democratic Party. He was the Deputy City Attorney (1975-1979), City Controller (1981-1985), City Attorney (1985-2001) and Mayor of Los Angeles, California and various celebrities are hoping to hoodwink hood·wink tr.v. hood·winked, hood·wink·ing, hood·winks 1. To take in by deceptive means; deceive. See Synonyms at deceive. 2. Archaic To blindfold. 3. Obsolete To conceal. the public into believing that they know better than we do what is in our best interests. Not just 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. but Hollywood and the rest of Los Angeles as well. Are we just know-nothings because we pay our taxes and vote? Are we going to listen to the con? Well, folks, it is your vote. It is three months until election. Why the big putsch to get you to think their way? They are in danger of losing. - Theodora Howell West Hills Can't believe a word Councilman Alex Padilla says that if we are a separate city our taxes will go up. Baloney. After a couple of years, our taxes will either go down or our services will go way up - or both. Padilla is like all the other politicians. We can't believe a word that comes out of City Hall if we are to have a separate and fair city. - Dan J. Schlick North Hills Alimony alimony, in law, allowance for support that an individual pays to his or her former spouse, usually as part of a divorce settlement. It is based on the common law right of a wife to be supported by her husband, but in the United States, the Supreme Court in 1979 or blessing The paper reads ``$127 million a year adjusted for inflation for the next 20 years, decreasing at 5 percent a year, comes to $1.3 billion.'' It sounds costly, but compare it with the other choice: We can pay $127 million year for the next 20 years ($2.5 billion, not adjusted for inflation) and remain the battered spouse. - Don Segien Canoga Park Know how to wage war So President George W. Bush says the Israeli attack that killed the Hamas leader ``was a deliberate attack on the site, knowing that innocents would be lost.'' And are the Palestinian terrorists who blow themselves up while taking innocents with them really concerned about what others think? In fact their main objective is to take these innocents with them to their deaths. And the more the better. In the eyes of some, the Israelis might not be politically correct politically correct Politically sensitive adjective Referring to language reflecting awareness and sensitivity to another person's physical, mental, cultural, or other disadvantages or deviations from a norm; a person is not mentally retarded, but , but they know how to fight a war - unlike our president, who seems to have been taught well by his father to worry what others think before you worry about the safety of your own people. If the Israelis don't take out Hamas, who will? - Bill Rosenblum Sherman Oaks Crossing the line How in good conscience can the United States condemn Israel's attack on the Hamas leader as heavy-handed and ``crossing the red line?'' It's preposterous to denounce Israel's defensive acts while remaining silent about the Palestinian homicide bombers' actions. Do they not cross the ``red line''? The world denounces Israel's actions in a residential neighborhood, but is silent to the homicide bombers' taking of innocent lives in residential neighborhoods. Why the double standard? Is anti-Semitism becoming such an accepted idea in our world today? Throughout Europe it is. Now in the United States, too? - Jeff Rubin Calabasas Freedom fighters The Israelis are the real terrorists because they are the people who put terror in the eyes of the Palestinians. All the Palestinians are doing are defending themselves from terror, so in other words Adv. 1. in other words - otherwise stated; "in other words, we are broke" put differently the Palestinians are freedom fighters. - Shakib Mohammad Nassiri Tarzana Another fine mess Re ``Words get pet lovers' hackles hackles the hairs over the neck and back that are elevated by arrector pili muscles in response to fright or anger. A mechanism to threaten opponents, perhaps by appearing larger. up,'' July 24: As if our city officials do not waste enough time, effort and money on other nonsense, they are now debating whether or not to replace the term ``pet owners'' with ``pet guardians.'' Let's end the debate here and now. As much as I love my two dogs - both rescued from shelters, I might add - they are my property. I own them. I bought and paid for them with my own money. I license them as I would one of my vehicles. I store them at my home. When they are not functioning, I have them repaired by the veterinarian veterinarian /vet·er·i·nar·i·an/ (vet?er-i-nar´e-an) a person trained and authorized to practice veterinary medicine and surgery; a doctor of veterinary medicine. vet·er·i·nar·i·an n. . I can give them away, sell them or have them euthanized at my will. This is yet another moronic mo·ron n. 1. A stupid person; a dolt. 2. Psychology A person of mild mental retardation having a mental age of from 7 to 12 years and generally having communication and social skills enabling some degree of academic or attempt to place animals on the same level of importance as human beings. - Steve McCombs Chatsworth Bad idea Re Stephen Fischer's ``Desert route'' (Public Forum, July 21): Fischer proposes the transportation of nuclear waste be routed through the desert, Antelope Valley, Barstow and Baker, ``where hardly anyone lives.'' As a resident of Antelope Valley, I take exception to that statement. There are more than a quarter of a million people living in the Antelope Valley. It outrages me to read that, once again, people from ``down below,'' who are already sending their trash up here, would make such a suggestion. Keep your trash, your nuclear waste and your suggestions down there. - Robert West Palmdale Protecting our forests While forest fires are destroying the beauty of Sequoia National Forest Sequoia National Forest is located in the southern Sierra Nevada mountains of California. The national forest is named for the majestic Giant Sequoia trees which populate 38 groves within the boundaries of the forest; the Giant Sequoia National Monument is also located within the , we should become aware of broader threats to our national forests. More than half of these forests have already been developed to the point where they no longer qualify as wilderness. Only 18 percent of our national forests are protected from development. So while our firefighters protect the sequoias from burning down, we should be protecting them on another front. In January 2001, with tremendous public support, the Forest Service finalized a plan to protect our remaining forests. Since then, the Bush administration has paved the way for the Forest Service to undermine this plan, explicitly removing protections for the magnificent Tongass National Forest At 17 million acres (69,000 km²), the Tongass National Forest (IPA: /ˈtɑŋgəs/) in southeastern Alaska is the largest national forest in the United States. and 11 other forests. - Sarah Hill Los Angeles |
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