PUBLIC FORUM WRONG PRIORITIES.Re ``Parents: Expel students in gangs'' (Sept. 12): Superintendent Roy Romer Roy R. Romer (born October 31, 1928 in Garden City, Kansas, United States) was the 39th governor of Colorado and served as the superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District from 2001 to 2006. doesn't want to give up on the gang members attending our children's schools. Shouldn't the onus for a better future be in the hands of the gang members themselves and their parents? Romer
A Romer or Roamer is a simple device for accurately plotting a grid reference on a map. is willing to risk the lives of innocent students in order to help students with gang ties who obviously don't care
"Don't Care" is a 1994 (see 1994 in music) single by American death metal band Obituary. about their own paths. Three kids who did nothing wrong were shot. Their lives will never be the same. Romer, those gangsters can make the choice to change their ``paths,'' but the lives of those students they shot are changed forever, and those kids had no choice. Please get your priorities straight. - Michele Gardiner Winnetka Cleaning the river Your Sept. 8 editorial ``Pollution payout'' begs the question: Why should rubbish even be in the Los Angeles River The Los Angeles River is an intermittent river flowing through Los Angeles County, California, from Canoga Park in the west end of the San Fernando Valley, 51 miles (82 km) southeast to its mouth in Long Beach. ? It seems to me that the answer lies at everyone's fingertips "Fingertips" is a 1963 number-one hit single recorded live by "Little" Stevie Wonder for Motown's Tamla label. Wonder's first hit single, "Fingertips" was the first live, non-studio recording to reach number-one on the Billboard Pop Singles chart in the United States. . Rather than throw it out on public highways and byways, why not dispose of it properly? If each person would live up to his or her civic duty, the $30 million from who knows where wouldn't need to be spent. For those of you who, like me, are sick and tired of seeing our lands littered with junk, then I suggest picking up litter as we go about our daily lives. It's contagious, and those who haven't got the message might see this and stop their scarring of the lands and the oceans. - James Weirick Professor James Weirick is an Australian academic who is currently serving as Director of the Master of Urban Design program at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Glendale Different tune now Re ``Dump delay (Editorial, Sept. 14): It's hard to think of a more glaring example of what the Daily News calls government backwardness than the political history surrounding Sunshine Canyon Landfill. What the City Council rushed through in 1999 is now seen as wrong-headed and could have been avoided if the intelligent, common-sense arguments of the Granada Hills residents had been heeded. But here we go again. The same residents came together this year to oppose the Hillcrest School expansion on traffic-congested Rinaldi Street. The Planning Commission Noun 1. planning commission - a commission delegated to propose plans for future activities and developments commission, committee - a special group delegated to consider some matter; "a committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours" - Milton Berle wisely turned it down. Now Councilman Greig Smith Greig Smith is a Los Angeles City Councilman, representing the 12th District, which includes Granada Hills, Northridge and other parts of the Western San Fernando Valley. Smith is also a reserve officer for the Los Angeles Police Department. , despite having promised otherwise as a candidate, is challenging the Planning Commission's decision and helping the school appeal. - Joan H. Leonard Sherman Oaks Hard act to follow No matter what you say, you gotta love that big guy named Arnold. He's the self-proclaimed child for immigrants, those with rags-to-riches dreams and those who want to marry up to a higher economic-social status. And then there's the fact that he speaks in sound bites and stays away from situations in which he may have to think on his feet. He looks good, smiles on cue, shakes hands well and takes direction without a fuss. What a gem of a politician - all buff and no stuff. But Arnold doesn't care. He's auditioning for the greatest role of his life, governor of California The Governor of California is the highest executive authority in the state government, whose responsibilities include making yearly "State of the State" addresses to the California State Legislature, submitting the budget, and ensuring that state laws are enforced. . - Diana Beard-Williams Palmdale Arnold's definition In his self-definition of his conservatism, didn't Arnold Schwarzenegger Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (German pronunciation (IPA): [ˈaɐ̯nɔlt ˈaloɪ̯s ˈʃvaɐ̯ʦənˌʔɛɡɐ] say that he was a conservative because he didn't believe in governmental deficit spending Deficit spending When government spending overwhelms government revenue resulting in government borrowing. deficit spending Expenditures that are in excess of revenues during a given period of time. ? How does he define his fellow Republican George Bush? - Barbara Adams This article is about the British Egyptologist. For the American juror, see Trekkie#Trekkie controversy. Barbara Georgina Adams (February 19 1945 – June 26 2002) was a British Egyptologist. Reseda Says who? The editorial ``Licensing error'' (Sept. 10) states that most Californians ``see the value in granting illegal (aliens) verifiable documentation, thus helping to move many of the state's 'invisible' residents into the mainstream of society.'' Please, show the actual poll that indicates this. Since this is clearly just a guess on your part, let me also offer a guess - that most Californians want to regain control of their schools, hospitals, roads and cities, which means deporting illegal immigrants and controlling the border, not moving millions of felons into the mainstream where they can continue to destroy our way of life. - Judith Brandt 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. Dean's appeal Joan Ryan's column on Gov. Howard B. Dean's meet-ups goes to the heart of his campaign's success (Their Opinions, Sept. 12). More than 100,000 volunteers have created an unprecedented local and national community. For all of Karl Rove's brave talk about welcoming a Dean nomination, the Republicans should be shaking in their boots. Can you imagine anyone crossing the street to go to a Bush meet-up? We'll never know, because the present administration is utterly tone-deaf to the needs and desires of the average citizen. Disaffected Republicans and new voters will propel Gov. Dean into the White House and the history books. - Ed Young Granada Hills Mission accomplished How successful have we been in Iraq? Let's see Let's See was a Canadian television series broadcast on CBC Television between September 6, 1952 to July 4, 1953. The segment, which had a running time of 15 minutes, was a puppet show with a character named Uncle Chichimus (voice of John Conway), which presented each . The electric and water utilities are collapsing, unemployment is rampant, the economy is in horrible shape, and the Iraqis live in constant fear of terrorist attacks. If our goal was to make Iraq more like the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , then mission accomplished. Way to go George W. - Rev. Dana L. Grooms Chatsworth Funding Iraq War Iraq War: see under Persian Gulf Wars. Iraq War or Second Persian Gulf War Brief conflict in 2003 between Iraq and a combined force of troops largely from the U.S. and Great Britain; and a subsequent U.S. When Rumsfeld heard that the administration's top economic adviser, Lawrence Lindsey, said the Iraq war would cost Americans $100 billion to $200 billion, Rumsfeld said publicly, ``Baloney!'' The actual total now appears to be $164 billion - $77 billion already approved and $87 billion more requested. I am a Republican and believed the war was in the best interest of the United States, but there is no way that we should write a check for that amount without a source of revenue to fund it. We should expect to be repaid, over time, with a share of Iraq oil sales revenues. So in the interim, there should be a 1 percent to 2 percent surcharge on income taxes, both corporate and individual, here in the United States, earmarked to retire the war debt. - Michael N. Cohen cohen or kohen (Hebrew: “priest”) Jewish priest descended from Zadok (a descendant of Aaron), priest at the First Temple of Jerusalem. The biblical priesthood was hereditary and male. Reseda Senseless lawsuits Your editorial ``Legal excesses'' (Sept. 14) was right on the money. Are the judges just addle-brained, or are they indeed helping the lawyers earn more money by not recognizing a frivolous lawsuit? If the defendants in this case should have recognized the possibility of a terrorist attack, why didn't the judge and the lawyers? They are supposed to be learned men, although they evidently do not possess any common sense. Is it any wonder that lawyers are held in such a low esteem? - Robert Lauer West Hills Union members pay Re the last paragraph of ``Broken promise'' (Editorial, Sept. 12): ``And one way or the other, the unions need to share some of the taxpayers' burden.'' Whom do you think the unions are made up of? They're made up of taxpayers. So we, as state employees in unions, do share the burden. We share it twice, as state employees and as taxpayers. As for doing ``about 5 percent less work,'' I can't tell you how many times I have done work from home because there isn't enough time to get it done during the day, and we definitely don't get paid overtime. - Bill Martin Chatsworth Just good men Re ``An epitaph epitaph, strictly, an inscription on a tomb; by extension, a statement, usually in verse, commemorating the dead. The earliest such inscriptions are those found on Egyptian sarcophagi. for a truly good man'' (Their Opinions, Sept. 10): Richard Cohen Several people are named Richard Cohen:
They are not saints, but ordinary people living up to standards of goodness - a goodness that strengthens family, business, community and government. They are honorable and just and can be trusted with the issues of the day. They are role models for those we choose to put into positions of trust - not ``great'' men, but ``good'' men. - Kathy Schofield West Hills Fit for governor Gov. Gray Davis is too thin. Cruz Bustamante is too thick. Arnold Schwarzenegger is just right. - Barbara Noonan Sylmar |
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