If you are like me and don’t have a smart phone, iePolitics is virtually impossible to access from a cheap mobile phone. I finally found a plugin that seems to have fixed that problem. Let me know what you think. If the feedback is positive, I will add it to all the other sites.
I had a bit of an odd occurence yesterday. On Wednesday I went to the library to get some work done on the blogs and websites and, lo and behold, all of my blogs and websites had been completely blocked on library computers.
I called GoDaddy, which verified that everything was okay and checked all of my sites from two different servers to be sure. I called several friends who check from Blackberrys, iPhones, and regular PCs. Everything was fine. I refreshed numerous times on the library computer and then several hours later switched to a different computer. I still kept getting messages that my sites could not be accessed on library computers.
I think I have finally caught up with items others have sent me to post. If you sent me something and it did not show up, please send again.
Local bloggers are always welcome to send me something to cross-post if it relates to what we do here at iePolitics. I only ask it not be something of very short-term interest as it sometimes takes me a few days to get things posted.
Redevelopment Agency, Born 1945-Expired 02/01/2012
The Public is invited to view the casket of the Redevelopment Agency, RDA, displayed in repose at various rotundas of local Cities and Towns throughout California. Having lived a long and illustrious life since 1945 the RDA has been unplugged from life support and will return dust to dust and ashes to ashes on February 1st.
The expired RDA is leaving behind a long list of co-dependents and co-defendants of connected builders and Eminent Domain attorneys that had been the beneficiaries of loose RDA purse strings in the past. It is expected future projects will continue to thrive the old fashion way…..if the development deal pencils out on its own accord, it will move forward.
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Someone sent me this and I thought it was worth sharing.
This video is taken from a British series where a guy called Gareth Malone takes a group of people and turns them into a choir. This time he’s taken a group of military wives whose husbands are all away in Afghanistan and turned them into a choir. Gareth looks about 16 years old but is actually in his mid-30s and a Choir master for the London Symphony Orchestra, among other things. They wrote a song based on excerpts from letters written by the couples while apart and this is the beautiful result!
San Bernardino Co. Code Enforcement, the Sheriff’s Dept. nor Supervisor Neil Derry will do anything about this, as the dirt bike family has ‘connections.’
This one doesn’t have to do with me. They want $48,000 for a California Public Records Act request: SJS 2nd Response Ltr to N Myerchin re PRA dated 12-18-11
Here is the link: Kephart If someone has a link to the actual article, please send it to me and I will post it. Thanks.
Governor Jerry Brown
(Palm Springs) – Updated 1/27/12 – A Palm Springs attorney, Marla Tauscher, initiated a petition drive to urge Governor Jerry Brown to reconsider his proposal to gut some of the Hayden Act’s most important provisions. The Hayden Act is California’s landmark animal shelter reform legislation. It was signed by then-Governor Pete Wilson in 1998 and became effective in 1999. In recent years certain mandates have been suspended due to the economy and now Brown proposes to repeal those sections.
Tauscher, whose areas of practice include animal law, created the petition through Change.org. She hopes that she can collect at least 10,000 signatures. She is well on her way. In a little more than the week the petition has been available on line, 5300 animal lovers have signed it.
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Devore Shelter - The Shelter of Death
Editor’s Note: This comment was written on the old blog today and I knew almost no one would see it. I thought it was important enough to turn into a story on this blog.
Animal control here does NOT care about animals. For 3 years I’ve dealt with a mentally ill person who purports to be a BREEDER/RESCUE/KENNEL, (puppy miller supplementing her state disability and whatever else she gets while making money selling dogs “internationally”) depending on who’s asking. They had between 10 and 26, Gotti line/Razors edge pits, and some backyard “pedigrees” loose on about 10 acres, and they promptly began killing each other. Our illustrious “Code Enforcement” proceeded to issue them a conditional use permit for 15 dogs. Didn’t matter that nothing on the entire property was legal except the well and the power to it. It took us 3 years to finally rid these callous, cold hearted, WELL CONNECTED, animal abusers, from our valley. Since they had too many dogs and could only keep 4 per residence, Greg Beck, DHS, and in charge of the animal programs, came up with the brilliant idea to “GET THEM IN COMPLIANCE”, he allowed them to put 4 dogs at one vacant home on one side of me and 4 dogs in another vacant home, on the other side of me, not counting the numerous dogs inside the house they were using for a kennel while holding over on the landlord. They kept staying, while the dogs ripped the home to shreds, because animal control said they could and they had no where else to put them.