PUBLIC FORUM.Wrong villain Re ``LAUSD's runaway benefits price tag'' (Feb. 17): As an LAUSD LAUSD Los Angeles Unified School District (Los Angeles, CA) retiree during whose career the price of a box of Wheat Thins Wheat Thins are a popular baked snack cracker found in North America and distributed by Nabisco, a subsidiary of Kraft Foods Global Inc.. The product's slogan 'Great Taste...Big Crunch' was developed by Brian Eaton. has more than tripled and whose pension (paid for by herself) barely enables her to make rent and car insurance, I believe I deserve my health benefits (an HMO HMO health maintenance organization. HMO n. A corporation that is financed by insurance premiums and has member physicians and professional staff who provide curative and preventive medicine within certain financial, ), for they barely make up for the pathetic salary I earned. I resent a major newspaper headlining a story that claims that our benefits are taking funds away from today's classrooms. The mayor and City Council have asked for an audit of the school district, which is absolutely necessary in order to uncover the waste of funds spent on inflated salaries and also benefits of LAUSD employees outside the classroom, from the superintendent to the assistant-to-the-assistant-``specialist'' and the ridiculous ``community outreachers.'' - Mary Preston Valley Village Kicking someone Although I am no big fan of Dick Cheney, the level of enmity being spewed by the media and many Americans borders on repulsive. Dick Cheney accidentally shot a friend, and has shown remorse and genuine concern for the well-being of his friend. Yet he's being denigrated because of his failure to immediately inform the press. Talk about kicking someone while they're down. It was an accident, for goodness' sake. Where is the sympathy we would have for any other fellow human being? - Sam Chaidez Mission Hills Foxes in the henhouse Yes, let's sell the operation of our ports to our Arab ``friends.'' Great idea. Then, why don't we get the foxes to guard all the henhouses and the wolves to guard the sheep. I'd suggest letting the inmates run the asylum, but it seems that has already happened. President Bush is working really hard to protect us from terrorists and just as soon as the cows get out of the barn, he's gonna lock the door. You're doin' a heck of a job, Bushie A Bushie, or less commonly, Bushite or Bushy, is an American political supporter of George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush, or even Jeb Bush. The term is used by both supporters and opponents, and has a particular meaning within the Republican Party in that the party is ! - Eddie Johnson Panorama City Now, who is the prez? Has Dick Cheney taken over the presidency? Cheney says he is allowed to declassify de·clas·si·fy tr.v. de·clas·si·fied, de·clas·si·fy·ing, de·clas·si·fies To remove official security classification from (a document). de·clas secret information. Per Article I in the U.S. Constitution, the vice president has only one job and that is to preside over the Senate. However, according to Section 3 of the 25th Amendment, the president can transmit to the president pro tempore president pro tem·po·re n. pl. presidents pro tempore The senator who presides over the U.S. Senate in the absence of the Vice President. of the Senate and the Speaker of the House that he is no longer able to carry on the powers and duties of his office and until he transmits to them a written declaration to the contrary, such powers and duties shall be discharged to the vice president. I think that, perhaps, George W. Bush did just that and forgot to tell the rest of us about it. - Jean Strauber Encino Olympic wood chopping Since ice dancing in the Winter Olympics and synchronized swimming in the Summer Olympics are considered sports, why don't they have ballroom dancing and roller-skate dancing in the Olympics? What about ballet? It's popular the world over and certainly requires a lot more athletic ability and talent than curling. Horse racing should also be included. And while they are at it, they should not forget stock car racing
Stock car racing is a form of automobile racing found mainly in the United States and Great Britain held largely on oval rings of between approximately a quarter-mile and 2. , motorcycle racing, mountain climbing, bowling, wood chopping, log rolling A legislative practice of embracing in one bill several distinct matters, none of which, perhaps, could singly obtain the assent of the legislature, and then procuring its passage by a combination of the minorities in favor of each of the measures into a majority that will adopt them , demolition derby, lap dancing and nude mud wrestling. - Jerry Marple West Hills Prime examples Perhaps our refusal to join the city neighborhood councils is a reason Councilman Greg Smith denies our existence. When the city system was being created we were listed as a prime example of how councils should operate. We have met monthly since 1989 and are one of the oldest community councils in 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. . We led the fight to obtain federal funds Federal Funds Funds deposited to regional Federal Reserve Banks by commercial banks, including funds in excess of reserve requirements. Notes: These non-interest bearing deposits are lent out at the Fed funds rate to other banks unable to meet overnight reserve for the ghost towns and spearheaded the request for the early city attorney's FALCON program, and later the CIT n. 1. A citizen; an inhabitant of a city; a pert townsman; - used contemptuously. Which past endurance sting the tender cit. - Emerson. and CLEAR programs. Gang violence and street drug sales have diminished considerably, permitting investment in the area witnessed by the new Primestor development at Nordhoff Street and Sepulveda Boulevard. We are not Mayberry, but concerned citizens who can and do make a difference. - Tony Swan - President of the North Hills Community Council North Hills |
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