Just a quick note - We just had a 5.8 here in Los Angeles. It was quite a ride…
I was sitting at my desk in my 2nd floor apartment when it hit. I usually feel large trucks when they come by, but the minute it jolted I knew it wasn’t a truck. It’s been so [...]
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Filed under: California, Earthquakes, In The News, Los Angeles, Pamela Leavey, SoCal
For longer than it seems possible, California been fighting wildfires far before the fire season was supposed to start. From the Santa Barbara/Goleta area of Southern California to the Northern vast areas, every wildfire firefighter from many states is on the line from many states working their hearts out trying to save family homes. [...]
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Filed under: California, Conservation, Election '08, Environment, In The News, Los Angeles, MSNBC, SoCal, Stuart O'Neill, Weather
Today WaPo reports that Senator John McCain unveiled two components of his energy plan yesterday in Santa Barbara, California.
“[...] , McCain (R-Ariz.) vowed to “put the purchasing power of the United States government on the side of green technology” by buying fuel-efficient vehicles for its civilian fleet of cars and trucks and by retrofitting federal [...]
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Filed under: Autos, Barack Obama '08, Big Oil, Economy, Election '08, Environment, Gas Prices, George W. Bush, Global Warming, In The News, John McCain '08, Political News, Presidential Election, Science, SoCal, Stuart O'Neill, WaPo
Unfortunately, we are seeing many people of retirement age wind up in strictly limited living circumstances. While active and socially involved, they live, in any cases, with limitations that can be difficult. Today MSN online offers a simple solution to the person with $12,000 retirement income or less. The article over simplfies a difficult [...]
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Filed under: Civil Rights, Congress, Democratic Daily, Economic News, Election '08, Elizabeth Edwards, Equal Rights, House of Reps, In The News, Senate, SoCal, Stuart O'Neill
The national average gas price for a gallon of “regular unleaded rose 1.7 cents to $4.005, according the daily measure on the AAA’s Web site.
That surpassed the previous record of $3.989 set Thursday.
The milestone was expected after a surge in crude oil prices added more than $16 to a barrel of oil over the last [...]
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Filed under: Big Oil, California, Consumers, Economic News, Economy, Gas Prices, In The News, Los Angeles, Pamela Leavey, SoCal
There’s been a huge fire raging on the Universal Studios set here in Los Angeles since early this morning. My apartment is about a mile north of the studio and the smell of the smoke is horrible because of the burning plastic:
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The fire has “destroyed a set from “Back to the Future,” the [...]
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Filed under: Arts & Entertainment, California, Entertainment News, In The News, Los Angeles, Movies, Pamela Leavey, SoCal
I was going to add this to my Sunday Late Night post below, but I think it deserves a post of it’s own. As I noted in the post below it was hot, hot, hot in SoCal this weekend, but the heat was really turned up in the desert when Prince took the stage at [...]
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Filed under: Arts & Entertainment, Entertainment News, In The News, Music, Pamela Leavey, SoCal
