Pray
What to do when you run into a mountain lion. (h/t Bethania Palma) Or you can do this. We'll have a story on the La Verne lion in tomorrow's paper.
What to do when you run into a mountain lion. (h/t Bethania Palma) Or you can do this. We'll have a story on the La Verne lion in tomorrow's paper.
There is a new reality series, called "The Paper," on at 10:30 p.m. on Mondays. But they apparently don't have workers "making out in Jacuzzis... slamming shots in some raucous club...prancing about in skimpy bikinis on spring break."
-Not a very realistic newsroom then or a realistic chance of catching on either.
The site is useful for legitimate purposes as well as not so legitimate. We'll have a story on one possible scam in Wednesday's paper.
"Swift boating"? Dirty tricks by outsiders? Ugh.
Reading up on Industry, with dreams of the NFL floating through my head, I came across a Wall Street Journal article from June 9, 1960 about small communities, especially dairy farmers, who were incorporating to protect themselves.
"...And two years ago, when a group wanting to carve a factory community out of the county had trouble getting the necessary 500 signatures, they visited the local mental institution, got enough inmates to sign their petitions and thus formed the City of Industry. A new law now requires such petitions be signed by qualified voters."
* UPDATE:Frank Girardot found another article on this, on the city's own Web site, albeit a Tribune story: " "Industry's" Incorporation came after a Superior Court decision denied a protest supported by residents in neighboring cities that 173 mental patients in a private santarium shouldn't be counted as inhabitants, giving proponents the nneccessary 500 population needed to incorporate."
I don't think so.
"A state commission on Tuesday asked its staff for a written legal opinion on whether it had the authority to cut the salaries of the governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, legislators and other state elected officials."
Former SGVN political editor and Pasadena Star News reporter Gary Scott has long derided newspapers' online strategy, saying if they only care about hits they should just post porn. But what if they just called it art? (h/t LAO)
Members of an Internet forum helped recover a stolen car.
Longtime investigative reporter Bob Greene, who started the IRE, died. This snippet is a sign of a truly gifted reporter.
"Along the way, Greene made deep impressions on people he covered and helped send to prison. The newspaper's stories on former Suffolk County Republican Chairman Edwin "Buzz" Schwenk helped send him to jail in 1981 for financial irregularities. But in the end the two men were friends and fishing partners, all the more so because Greene wrote a letter to the sentencing judge asking for leniency.
"At no time was Bob dishonest with me; he was upfront, and he turned out to be a real friend," Schwenk said.
Longtime investigative reporter Bob Greene, who started the IRE, died. This snippet is a sign of a truly gifted reporter.
"Along the way, Greene made deep impressions on people he covered and helped send to prison. The newspaper's stories on former Suffolk County Republican Chairman Edwin "Buzz" Schwenk helped send him to jail in 1981 for financial irregularities. But in the end the two men were friends and fishing partners, all the more so because Greene wrote a letter to the sentencing judge asking for leniency.
"At no time was Bob dishonest with me; he was upfront, and he turned out to be a real friend," Schwenk said.
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