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Los Angeles Metblogs @
Tuesday 9 February 2010 at 12:02 pm
It’s not easy to live in LA. You’ve got to have a certain toughness. Especially if you are struggling to make ends meet… and who isn’t these days?
Certainly our fair city is having a hard time. And it seems that one of the answers the people who run this place have is raising the fine ...
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Minneapolis Metblogs @
Tuesday 9 February 2010 at 11:53 am
Depending on who you ask Minnesota either has a drinking and driving problem or the laws have gotten too strict. I’ve heard numbers cited that 1 in 8 Minnesotans (524,000 drivers) have a DWI and there are about 20,000 new first time offenders every year.
Wow.
Recently Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s has been proposing a series ...
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Minneapolis Metblogs @
Friday 5 February 2010 at 12:54 pm
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There’s been plenty of talk in Minnesota this week. Most of it about bacon and eggs, some of it about beer, and occasionally someone has brought up the topic of the weather. Typically, we kill that person with kindness while secretly thinking thoughts of the Caribbean. Since it’s Superbowl ...
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Karachi Metblogs @
Thursday 4 February 2010 at 2:21 am
I have a FIFTY-FIFTY collection and at times i watch it and wonder if our issues have changed during 25 years. Not a single issue highlighted then saw a day of solution as we entered 2010. Even more added to bucket. Our leadership has failed miserably in every domain. They are not only incapable of ...
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Minneapolis Metblogs @
Monday 1 February 2010 at 11:32 am
Salon reports about Minnesota’s Governor Tim Pawlenty’s budget plan and it is not very kind. Nope, not kind at all.
a balanced budget proposal from Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty, a potential GOP presidential candidate in 2012. Pawlenty says the debate over the deficit “is no longer between competing political philosophies — it is a matter of ...
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Minneapolis Metblogs @
Monday 1 February 2010 at 11:32 am
Salon reports about Minnesota’s Governor Tim Pawlenty’s budget plan and it is not very kind. Nope, not kind at all.
a balanced budget proposal from Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty, a potential GOP presidential candidate in 2012. Pawlenty says the debate over the deficit “is no longer between competing political philosophies — it is a matter of ...
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Austin Metblogs @
Sunday 31 January 2010 at 11:18 pm
Saturday saw the streets blocked, not by parking for Polvos, or South Congress, but for the Austin Home tour. Ok, that wasn’t A change; but it at least it was at least different from the normal clogged streets, if you live in close proximity.
Change is in the air though. Turns out that iconic Bouldin Creek ...
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Austin Metblogs @
Sunday 31 January 2010 at 8:34 am
Farewell to the Cactus Cafe, scene of countless wonderful musical experience for countless Austinites, whether affiliated officially with the campus or not. Farewell to Union Informal Classes, where people from every part of our community could be introduced to or continue learning about subjects that they might not otherwise encounter, meeting their neighbors and paying ...
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Karachi Metblogs @
Sunday 31 January 2010 at 1:20 am
This time i am writing about a more important issue , one that is very disturbing. Disturbing because it is exposing us as a callous society only busy in their material objectives, unable to think as a group. But my point is not society, mine is even more a serious one. Our media which doesnt ...
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Minneapolis Metblogs @
Saturday 30 January 2010 at 12:37 pm
Dr. King reminded us during the Vietnam War buildup: “A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.” Spiritual and psychic death is what we encountered in our tour of the DC jails. We continue to sow death and reap ...
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Minneapolis Metblogs @
Saturday 30 January 2010 at 12:37 pm
Dr. King reminded us during the Vietnam War buildup: “A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.” Spiritual and psychic death is what we encountered in our tour of the DC jails. We continue to sow death and reap ...
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Minneapolis Metblogs @
Wednesday 27 January 2010 at 1:44 pm
Kare 11 reports
Saint Paul, MN – Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher has created a network of wireless remote control surveillance cameras, the first of it’s kind in the nation. And the public will eventually have opportunities to monitor the new electronic snooping devices.
“We’re creating a system that allows the average citizen to be our ...
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Los Angeles Metblogs @
Tuesday 26 January 2010 at 6:33 pm
If you take a look at the “Press Releases” section of the Los Angeles City Council’s website, there seems to be something funny going on regarding the listed dates of the Council’s press releases. Some of the dates, as late as 12/2/10, have not yet occurred. If you click on the press releases in question, ...
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Los Angeles Metblogs @
Tuesday 26 January 2010 at 2:30 pm
It’s not often I get to feel glad that I’m not a (reported) billionaire, but I’m glad I am not 49-year-old private equity investor and newly fledged Deputy Mayor Austin Beutner.
Beutner was last week appointed the mayor’s new deputy and chief executive for economic and business policy. The media title is “Job Czar.” He will ...
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Los Angeles Metblogs @
Friday 22 January 2010 at 1:51 pm
Okay. I am humbled and I am in awe. I recently wrote about getting an unjustified parking ticket in Hollywood. It was the second time this year I got one in which I had paid for an hour returned to find a ticket, with 20 minutes still in the meter. At $50 a pop, I ...
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Los Angeles Metblogs @
Wednesday 20 January 2010 at 4:30 pm
Hey Angelenos, you think this rain sucks? Just wait until General Zod unleashes his justly wrath upon those who fail to worship his Zodliness!
How best to pledge your allegiance, you ask?
First, forget all about the son of Jor-El! “Superman,” as you call him, wasn’t there to stop Prop 8, he didn’t do a damn ...
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Los Angeles Metblogs @
Monday 18 January 2010 at 1:00 am
So, are you mystified about the state of same-sex marriage in California? At first glance it looks easy. On one side, you’ve got your proponents of same-sex marriage: Advocacy groups like the ACLU; big corporations like Google; and Americans everywhere who think that other people’s romantic lives are none of their business. And on the ...
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Atlanta Metblogs @
Friday 15 January 2010 at 7:22 am
onger waits during non-peak times on trains. service modifications to bus routes. whole bus routes cancelled. for me that is the legacy of the 2009 georgia legislative session.
failing to secure an alternate funding measure to ensure marta’s operations glenn richardson and jerry keen let the legislature leave town with a ...
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Minneapolis Metblogs @
Thursday 14 January 2010 at 12:12 pm
Minnesota has ran out of money. I guess there’s no big suprise there as many states have ran out of money due to increased spending and lower amounts taken in by taxes due to the recession. (both sales taxes and payroll taxes are down)
The Strib reports State may force schools to lend it $1B
In a ...
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Atlanta Metblogs @
Thursday 14 January 2010 at 10:30 am
atlanta has a new mayor. and he is apparently getting down to work.
and it’s sad to say that i actually don’t know much about him or local, atlanta politics – the personalities involved, the issues – i really don’t know much about any of it. i learned enough during the recent ...
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Los Angeles Metblogs @
Wednesday 13 January 2010 at 11:00 am
If there’s any film that deserves to be screened in 3D IMAX, it’s The Young Victoria, a beautiful drama by director Jean-Marc Vallée that showcases the even more beautiful Emily Blunt, star of My Summer of Love, The Devil Wears Prada and Sunshine Cleaning.
But since it’s not possible to see Ms. Blunt gloriously projected ...
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Los Angeles Metblogs @
Tuesday 12 January 2010 at 11:35 am
Yes, the City Council is STILL (I won’t say “hashing out”) working on the Medical Marijuana ordinance, and there’s an important vote tomorrow.
If you care about making a good law that supports the good dispensaries and gets rid of the creepy drug fronts, how about checking out the sample letter you can send, and the ...
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Los Angeles Metblogs @
Saturday 9 January 2010 at 11:21 am
Yet another example of (borrowing from the estimable Mr Jalopy) Going Out Of Business In LA: The Santa Monica Food Truck Debacle of 2010.
It was only a matter of time before someone came up with the idea of “hosting” a few of the popular gourmet food trucks (PLEASE don’t call them Roach ...
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Minneapolis Metblogs @
Friday 8 January 2010 at 3:11 pm
Ever have one of those weeks… you know, one of those weeks.
This week was one of those weeks for me. My family remains haunted by a plague of a sinus cold , I found out I was most likely investigated by the FBI due to some indescretions by our renters involving the alleged stealing ...
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Karachi Metblogs @
Friday 8 January 2010 at 12:33 am
Karachi is once again in headlines for targeted killings and like always we have difficulty in finding the “namaloom afraad” behind. The media which is mainly Karachi based is completely silent on this (for known reasons) and is limited to informing only about deaths. Daily Ummat known for its investigative journalism has posted this story ...
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