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TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 2012 Volume 11 Issue 140
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A LOOK INSIDE Daniel Archuleta [email protected] work crew was exposing the structure of the 'Chain Reaction' sculpture on Monday. City officials contend that the Paul Conrad-designedsculpture is in need of repair and have ordered a closer examination to determine to what extent it has aged since being placed in the CivicCenter in the early 1990s. There is a public movement afoot to raise money for the repairs.
BY ASHLEY ARCHIBALDDaily Press Staff Writer
Editor’s note: This story is part of an ongoing seriesthat tracks the city’s expenditures appearing onupcoming City Council consent agendas. Consentagenda items are routinely passed by the council withlittle or no discussion from elected officials or thepublic. However, many of the items have been part ofpublic discussion in the past.
CITY HALL The City Council will be asked tomake good on its end of a regional waterquality effort at its meeting Tuesday night,the cost of which has doubled in the last fiveyears.
City Hall will contribute $4 million to payfor runoff management projects and strate-gies to help protect the Santa Monica Bayfrom bacteria that flows into the water afterevery rain.
The Santa Monica Bay Beaches WetWeather Bacterial Total Maximum DailyLoad, established by the Regional WaterQuality Control Board, constitutes an $86million investment on the part of SantaMonica, the city of Los Angeles and otheragencies.
That’s up from the $30 million estimatedat the beginning of the process, and SantaMonica’s share of the cost has doubled from$2 million to $4 million since the cost wasre-evaluated in 2007. An analysis of the proj-ect found that a larger drainage area wasneeded to comply with regional water quali-ty standards.
City Hall has $1 million on hand to con-tribute to the project. The remaining $3 mil-lion will be borrowed from the WastewaterFund at 4 percent interest over the next 20years, according to a city staff report.
The payment constitutes the bulk of the$6,921,653 requested on the consent agenda.
PRICE OF GASThe City Council is expected to sign off
on a five-year contract to pay for gasoline forbuses, emergency vehicles and other staff-related vehicles on Tuesday night.
The contract with IPC, Inc. covers fiveyears and two months for a total cost of$4,320,334, just over $1 million of which is
BY ASHLEY ARCHIBALDDaily Press Staff Writer
CITY HALL Members of the Unite Here!Local 11 union have filed a petition for areferendum to block the construction of anew hotel on Wilshire Boulevard after theCity Council voted to allow it to move for-ward if the developer paid employees a so-called “living wage.”
The union representing hotel workersbelieves the council did not go for enoughwhen it set the wage, arguing that it shouldhave been higher.
The referendum process allows an indi-vidual or group to send a legislative deci-sion of a local governing body back to itsconstituents for a direct up-down vote.
In this case, the target is a developmentagreement for a 285-room hotel slated for710 Wilshire Blvd.
The project is both beloved by membersof the preservation community for thepromised $11 million rehab of the land-marked Santa Monica ProfessionalBuilding and disliked by unions and localbusiness people for a controversial livingwage provision that the business communi-ty felt went too far and labor advocatesdecried for not going far enough.
“I think for us, we see the 710 Wilshireproject as the first of many new develop-ments in the city of Santa Monica that set anegative precedent in which future devel-opment could follow,” said Rachel Torres, aresearch analyst with Unite Here!.
Development agreements, a process thatallows developers to exceed zoning restric-tions in return for pre-negotiated commu-nity benefits, are both contracts and laws,and as such are subject to referendum.
Unite Here! has used referendums inother cities, but not Santa Monica, Torressaid.
The proponents now have until May 20to gather signatures from 10 percent ofSanta Monica’s registered voters or approx-imately 5,820 people.
If they succeed, the City Council willhave to decide as early as July whether ornot to repeal their decision to allow thehotel or put the matter to the people on the
Water qualitygets top billing
SEE HOTEL PAGE 10 SEE CONSENT PAGE 12
Union seeks to stop hotel over living wage
SHOULD PARENTS DECIDE ON VACCINES?SEE PAGE 8
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Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Green jobsMain Library
601 Santa Monica Blvd., 6 p.m.Van Jones, author of “Rebuild the
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the lives of middle class Americansand the planet. Jones calls this new
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In the newsSanta Monica College, Theatre Arts
Studio Stage1900 Pico Blvd., 8 p.m.
“The Front Page,” a classic hitBroadway comedy, will continueuntil April 28. The play follows acocky newspaper reporter who
hides an escaped death row inmateto ensure an exclusive interview.
Written by Ben Hecht and CharlesMacArthur, the original productionopened in 1928 on Broadway and
has been performed throughout thecountry and even adapted into sev-eral films. Tickets are $10 each. For
more information, call (310) 434-4319.
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Talking toxinsMain Library
601 Santa Monica Blvd., 7 p.m. —9 p.m.
How are toxins in the environmentimpacting your health? This will bethe topic of Dr. David Allen’s freepresentation in the library’s MLK
Auditorium. You’ll be surprised whatyou learn about the air we breatheand the water we drink. For moreinformation, call (310) 445-6600.
Beer and dinnerWest 4th & Jane
1432A Fourth St., 7 p.m.West 4th & Jane is teaming withNew York brewery Ommegang to
present a night of unique beer pair-ings with modern-American cuisinefrom Chef Ryan Turner. Cost: $65.
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There’s no cover charge, but reser-vations are recommended. For more
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Thursday, April 26, 2012
Carlin reduxSanta Monica Playhouse1211 Fourth St., 8 p.m.
Kelly Carlin, only child of iconoclas-tic comedian George Carlin, chroni-cles over 40 years of her life withher famous father, through story-telling, classic video footage, andfamily memorabilia in “A Carlin
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LOS ANGELES Los Angeles County trans-portation officials have been ordered toreview transit service cuts and changes dat-ing back three years to see if they were unfairto riders.
The Federal Transit Administration madethe demand Monday in a stern letter thatrefers to the “disturbing findings” of a civilrights investigation into policies and prac-
tices at the Los Angeles CountyMetropolitan Transportation Authority.
The letter cites a failure by Metro to con-duct proper analysis of new changes in serv-ice that would ensure that they were imple-mented in a fair and nondiscriminatory way.
Metro replied in a statement that the FTAorder makes no new findings, does not doc-ument any civil rights violations andacknowledges that the agency has solvedsome of its previously cited problems.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. California prison offi-cials released a wide-ranging reorganizationplan Monday that calls for halting a $4 bil-lion prison-construction program andbringing back all inmates held out of state.
The master plan outlines the depart-ment’s recommendations for ending years offederal court oversight, overcrowding, poorinmate medical and mental health treat-ment, and soaring budgets.
It came at a time when the nation’s largeststate prison system is being transformed byongoing state budget deficits, federal courtorders and a realignment ordered by thegovernor that shifts its focus to the most vio-lent and dangerous offenders.
The changes are possible because of astate law that took effect Oct. 1 that shiftslower-level offenders from state prisons tocounty jails. That shift is the main conse-quence of a federal court order requiring thestate to reduce its prison population as a wayto improve inmate medical care.
“It’s a massive change to our system,”Corrections Secretary Matthew Cate said ata Capitol news conference.
Lowering the inmate population elimi-nates the need for $4.1 billion in construc-tion projects and will let the stateDepartment of Corrections andRehabilitation reduce its annual budget by$1.5 billion, officials said.
The plan calls for returning to state pris-ons by 2016 about 9,500 inmates who arecurrently housed in private prisons in otherstates. That alone would save the state $318
million a year.But prison officials also acknowledged for
the first time that they will not meet a June2013 deadline ordered by federal judges forreducing the state’s prison population to endpoor medical and mental health care.
The corrections department said it willask federal judges to allow the state to keepan additional 6,000 inmates behind bars,exceeding the limit set by a special panel.The court’s order was upheld last year by the
BY DANIEL ARCHULETAManaging Editor
DOWNTOWN New Roads baseball has earnedthe unique distinction of being the soleSanta Monica-based team in the latest CIF-Southern Section rankings, it was releasedon Monday.
Ranked No. 7 in the Division 7 poll, NewRoads took on Buckley on the road onMonday, but results were not available atpresstime.
New Roads is currently second in leagueat 3-1 and 8-4 overall. The Jaguars faceWildwood today at Clover Park. The leaguegame is scheduled for 3:30 p.m.
SAMOHI TRIES TO STAY UNBEATEN IN LEAGUESamohi softball hosts rival Culver City
today as the Vikings try to remain undefeat-ed in Ocean League play.
The game begins at 3:15 p.m. atMemorial Park, Santa Monica High School’shome field.
Samohi (4-0) has not lost a league gamein recent memory, with the streak spanningat least nine seasons, according to schoolofficials. The Vikings’ dominance in leaguehas given them 10 consecutive titles, withnine coming under Head Coach DebbieSkaggs.
Outside of league, Samohi has struggled abit this season with a 7-11 overall record.But, the Vikings traditionally take on a diffi-cult non-league schedule to prepare for theirnow annual drive for a league pennant.
HAVE GLOVE, WILL TRAVEL Morgan Genser [email protected]'s Nobu Suzuki prepares to field a ground ball against Torrance on Monday at home.Samohi would lose, 1-0, in the fourth place game of the Babe Herman Tournament.
SEE PRISON PAGE 11
County ordered to reviewtransit service changes
HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS ROUNDUP
New Roads lone baseballteam on CIF-SS’ latest poll
State prison overhaul would save $1.5B a year 3TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 2012
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Save the Senior Center Editor:
Dear Mayor Bloom and City Council members,This letter is in opposition to closing the Senior
Recreation Center at 1450 Ocean Ave. in PalisadesPark (‘Seniors may lose ocean view,” April 20).
I was appalled to hear that you are considering clos-ing the center. What is happening to our “once upon atime” beautiful and accommodating city?
I have always been impressed with the city’s con-cern for our children and seniors — our most vulnerablecitizens. How can you even consider doing this? Howcan you?
Your plan “sounds nice” but it is confining, not invit-ing, and not conducive to mobility as is the center.There the seniors move from one thing to another veryeasily: movies, music, exercise, dance, singing, conver-sation, fellowship with food and drink, or a quietmoment looking at the ocean as the waves softly kissthe shore, or sometimes throw a tantrum like a 2-yearold.
The rooms flow into each other and there is no dis-traction as the seniors move from one room to anoth-er. None of this will happen at the Ken Edwards Centerdue to the way the building is constructed.
My husband and I have spent many happy and ener-gizing times at the center at a dance class. Fifty-sixyears ago, I moved to Santa Monica next door toCharlotte Schwartz. She was an inspiration to me! Shespent a lot of time at the beach and loved the ocean. Asa widow, Charlotte continued going to the SeniorRecreation Center. She rode the Big Blue Bus and wasenrolled in many of the programs. She was active rightup to the end. She was 94 when she died, after only sixmonths of illness. Charlotte had no immediate family.The Senior Recreation Center was her lifeline.
The Ken Edwards Center will be like a visit to a con-valescent home or a hospice — waiting for theinevitable, reminding them of their limitations. Whywould you do this? Why? Seniors need this place. It istheir place! It is their only hope to live victoriously.
Think about it.Emmalie Hodgin
Santa Monica
Part of history Editor:
A BAR WORTH KEEPINGOur town is unique, as everyone knows.The Promenade and mall are where all L.A. goesTo shop near the beach and stroll on our pier,But if everything’s shiny and new, I fear,We will lose what’s left of our storied past,So one classic place that, for sure, should lastIs where classified papers, they say, were passedThat helped end a war that had people aghast.A peanut from there made its way into space,And Frank had his drinks at a booth in this place.The portholes, the clam, the weathered wheelAdd oceanfront kitsch and beach town appeal.Folks from all walks of life go there from afarAnd are welcomed into this timeless bar.So the city should honor this treasure, I say,And grant a long lease to historic Chez Jay.
G.E. MatthewsSanta Monica
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LONG BEFORE I WAS A DIVORCE LAWYER,I was in the food and beverage business. Myfirst legal job was at a Jack in the Box, whichI realize barely qualifies as food, but hey, Iwas 16. As a senior in high school I was acater waiter for a network of little old ladiesin my home town. In college I worked in anupscale French restaurant in Annapolis, Ma.It was a tiny 10 table place with an alcoholicchef and was run by his wife/girlfriend. I wasnever sure what they were, but it was a rockyrelationship to be sure. The food was won-derful and I learned a great deal about foodpreparation and the service industry.
In law school I upgraded to working for aconsulting company that was hired by trou-bled restaurants to come in and fix them. Iloved that job because I was allowed to be asecret shopper and try menu items and cri-tique service, and then go fix the problems Isaw. I’ve triaged the full range of restaurants;from taquerias in East Los Angeles, to fineCalifornia fusion dining in Orange County,and an old school steakhouse in Pasadena.
This background in food and service hasmade me a picky customer when it comes torestaurants and waiters. I know what I likeand I know what it takes to put out a goodproduct. Which is why I’m very excited to beattending “Live From Loews: CaliforniaClassics” this coming Friday night.
After a hard week of fighting for childcustody for the fathers who hire me, I usual-ly want a relaxing Friday night of dinnerwith friends, but this Friday I’ll be at theLoews hotel on Ocean Avenue enjoying thelive music by the John Brown Band. Namedone of the “Best Bands in the South Bay,”John Brown specializes in classic rockfavorites and California dreamin’ surf tunes.
The announcement says that ExecutiveChef Keith Roberts will showcase the best ofhis contemporary California coastal cuisine,including brick oven flatbreads, inventivesushi rolls, gourmet sliders, grilled fish tacosand pier-inspired desserts. On the menu ishors d’oeuvres of mini lobster pop-tarts,which I can’t wait to try. The walnut shrimpand duck taquitos are also going to be heav-ily scrutinized by me.
As a foodie, I abhor poor quality food,and one of my favorite foods that is easilyscrewed up is pizza, so I’m going to be espe-cially attentive to the brick oven pizza corner.I love ribs, and Chef Roberts is putting shortribs on pizza and I may just be in heaven.
The event is a monthly concert series thatfeatures locally-crafted beer and fine wine
for those who imbibe. Personally, I’m savingmy calories for the dessert bar with a freshbaked cinnamon bun sundae with home-made caramel sauce and S’more ice cream.
I’m hopeful that this event is going to bea winner, as I spend a lot of time at theLoews and this will just give me one morereason to hang out overlooking the sunset,the pier and the ocean. Rest assured that ifthere is something that is not up to snuff, thegeneral manager is going to be hearingabout it from me next Tuesday morningwhen I see him in the locker room.
General admission is $45 in advance or$55 at the door, plus service charge, andincludes beer, wine, chef tastings and com-plimentary valet parking. To purchase tick-ets, visit Ticketfly.com.
This is just one more of the amazingevents that we have in Santa Monica and I’mlucky to be able to take advantage of so manyof them. As summer comes rolling in, we’vegot a wide selection of fantastic things to doin this town, and we should jump on asmany of them as we can.
I’ve come a long way from the grease pitof that first job, and I’m very grateful for theopportunities to experience so many of theworld’s foods without leaving the comfortsof our little burg. I hope to see you there onFriday, and if you come join us, please sayhello.
DDAAVVIIDD PPIISSAARRRRAA is a family law attorney focus-ing on father’s rights and men’s Issues in theSanta Monica firm of Pisarra & Grist. He can bereached at [email protected] or (310) 664-9969.
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CERTAINLY ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANTparts of investing is the method of selectinga company to invest in. And this is also oneof the most controversial areas in the worldof investments.
First should come the criteria. By that Imean what it is that you are looking for. Fora young person earning extra money, the cri-teria might be something that is a bit specu-lative, but has the potential to make a reallybig hit.
In today’s world that might be 3D print-ing. There are those that think that 3D print-ing is going to take over big parts of theworld. You could print your own auto parts,clothing, and kitchen utensils right at home.That will be even easier than buying fromAmazon.com!
A savvy investor I know recently suggest-ed four potential 3D companies for invest-ment. Here is what he wrote to me:
“I have an interest in the 3D printingcompanies (SSYS and DDD). I have been inthem for awhile; long term they are excep-tional. SSYS is the better company. Xerox(XRX) is very cheap here. HarmanInternational (HAR) is poised for rapidlyexpanding earnings growth. Deluxe (DLX)has a good dividend and a very low multiple.This is just a partial list.”
So I looked at the statistics on those 5companies. One of them stood out from therest, DLX. Here are the statistics from YahooFinance that I looked at:
• 52WK RANGE: 17.50 - 28.22• VOLUME: 443,241• AVG VOL (3M): 416,875• MARKET CAP: 1.15B• P/E (TTM): 8.03• EPS (TTM): 2.80• DIV & YIELD: 1.00 (4.40 PERCENT)
The numbers that made this look good tome were, first of all, the great dividend.Secondly, the low price to earnings ratio, andthird, the relatively low price.
So we bought a few hundred shares at$22.40. I did not write calls against them yet,but if the stock doesn’t move up in a monthor two I will begin to do that, about 10 per-cent above the market price, even if thereisn’t much premium.
Right after I bought the stock, of course,SSYS announced that it had purchased one
of its competitors, an Israeli company with alot of hi-tech people on board. So SSYS stockjumped up. And DDD stock moved up nice-ly. But DLX stayed about the same.
But I’m not complaining: I like that 4.4percent dividend.
On another stock, a friend recommendedGreen Mountain Coffee (GMCR).
His point of view is that first, the stockhas come down on rumors from about $92to $45, so there’s a lot of upside, and second,coffee is a commodity that will never go outof style. But, he warned, there are some neg-atives including some governmental issueswith their accounting practices.
The stock certainly has taken a ride, so Ilooked at an article he recommended aboutthis company. It pointed out the risks, whichin addition to rumors of accounting errorsincluded, above all, competition.
The interesting point here, for me, is justhow much information one can learn fromthe Internet in today’s world. Just from look-ing at primary sources I would never haveconsidered all the risks pointed out in thisarticle. After reading it, in spite of the temp-tation to buy, I’ve passed. But I’m going tofollow the stock, and if the accounting prob-lems disappear and the price is still in the $45range, I might start to buy a small position.
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In these tough economic times many people arefinding themselves out of work, sometimes for
the first time in their lives. More than three mil-lion Americans are fired each year. After the initialshock of being fired has worn off, the practicali-ties of having to navigate the unemploymentinsurance system come into sharp focus.
Generally, you are entitled to unemploymentbenefits if you are unemployed through no fault ofyour own, for example, if you were laid off, firedfor a reason other than misconduct, or quit yourjob for good reason. Once the EmploymentDevelopment Department (EDD) has receivedyour application for benefits, it usually conducts atelephone interview with you, and also with youremployer, to find out why you were fired.
Unfortunately, some unscrupulous employerschallenge their former employee’s application forbenefits even when that employee was firedthrough no fault of his or her own. In this case,the employer usually claims that the employeewas fired for misconduct.
If your application for benefits is denied, youhave 20 days to file an appeal. If you believe thatyour benefits were unfairly denied, it is veryimportant that you file a timely appeal. You willreceive a hearing date about 4-6 weeks later.Sometimes, the employer does not even bother toshow up to the appeal hearing; they were count-ing on the fact that you wouldn’t fight the denialof your benefits.
The hearing is your chance to explain yourside of the story to an Administrative Law Judge.It is natural to feel nervous before the hearing, butyou will feel better if you are properly prepared topresent your case. You should ask to review theEDD’s file on your case, which will include theinterview notes with your employer. This meansyou will get a chance to see what your employ-er said about why you were fired. You canalso send a written request to youremployer asking to inspect your per-sonnel file pursuant to Labor CodeSection 1198.5. You can ask witness-es who can corroborate your ver-sion of events to come with you tothe hearing. If they can’t come, youcan ask them to give you a writtenstatement to take along with you. You
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LOS ANGELESOutlook cloudy for DWP solar power program
A Los Angeles program to boost solar power use has a cloudy outlook.The pilot program approved by the City Council two weeks ago allows owners of ware-
houses and apartment buildings that have solar panels to sell some extra electricity tothe Department of Water and Power.
Supporters say it will help the utility reduce reliance on coal-fired plants.However, some business owners say they’re wary because a previous DWP solar pro-
gram had long delays for project approvals and frustratingly complex bills.San Fernando Valley businessman Jack Engel tells the Los Angeles Times that his
experience was so bad he won’t take part in the new “feed-in-tariff” program.However, DWP General Manager Ron Nichols says those problems are past and the
utility is committed to turning things around.ASSOCIATED PRESS
LOS ANGELESAustralian woman charged with bribery
An Australian woman suspected of prostitution is facing federal bribery charges inLos Angeles, where authorities allege she tried to pay off a pair of U.S. Customs andBorder Protection agents if she wasn’t deported.
Leyna Le has been charged with one count of bribery and could face up to 15 years inprison if convicted. She is expected to make a court appearance Monday.
An affidavit says the 41-year-old woman was stopped Friday at Los AngelesInternational Airport by customs agents after they learned she had previously beenarrested for investigation of prostitution.
The affidavit alleges Le was in the U.S. to visit a few boyfriends and she promised twoagents $2,000 each if they would help her remain.
It wasn’t immediately known if Le had retained an attorney.AP
LOS ANGELESAmerican flight from Hawaii reports engine trouble
An American Airlines flight from Hawaii has landed safely on one engine atLos Angeles International Airport after the pilot reported engine trouble.
Airline spokesman Matt Miller in Dallas says instruments on Flight 246 showed trou-ble with the left engine about an hour before its scheduled arrival and the engine wasshut down.
He says the aircraft is designed to fly safely on one engine.The Boeing 757 jetliner landed at 5:19 a.m. from Kona and passengers got off at the ter-
minal gate. The 147 people on board, including the seven crewmembers, were not injured.Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor says FAA inspectors will work
with the airline to determine the cause of the problem and ensure it is fixed before theplane is returned to service.
APLOS ANGELESSalvadorans want community corridor designation
Boosted by dedication of an intersection to a martyred bishop, the Salvadoran com-munity in Los Angeles is pushing for a community corridor designation like theKoreatown, Chinatown and Little Tokyo neighborhoods.
“We’re trying to put a tiny flag saying ‘We’re here,’” said Wilson Salguero, owner of aVermont Avenue restaurant.
A bustling Salvadoran population lives south of downtown near the intersection ofPico Boulevard and Vermont Avenue, where the square was dedicated Saturday to aCatholic archbishop killed in 1980 during El Salvador’s civil war.
Designation of the intersection as Oscar Romero Square also gives Salvadorans aplace in the city.
“Most ethnic groups have their representations — Chinatown, Little Armenia, LittleTokyo. We don’t,” truck driver Raul Contreras told the Los Angeles Times.
Romero Square should hasten the city’s recognition of a Salvadoran corridor, whichhas been in the works since 2010, community leaders said. The corridor would be next tothe Koreatown neighborhood.
Community leaders earlier succeeded in naming an elementary school for JoseCastellanos, a Salvadoran colonel who saved thousands of Jews from Nazi persecutionby providing them with false Salvadoran citizenship papers.
Salvadoran community leaders hope a community corridor will awaken Salvadorans tothe need for more civic engagement.
APSAN MATEOUnion stickers keep AT&T workers off job
AT&T customers in some parts of Northern California and Nevada may be waiting a bitlonger than usual for service calls after a few dozen technicians were not allowed toreport to work because managers feared the union stickers they were wearing mightoffend some people.
The San Mateo County Times reports that phone company workers throughoutCalifornia were wearing pink stickers with the initials “WTF” and the words “Where’s TheFairness?” printed on them.
The decals refer to a labor dispute between AT&T and the technicians, who have beenworking without a contract since last week. But the initials also are shorthand for a com-monly used slang phrase that includes an expletive.
Communications Workers of American spokeswoman Libby Sayre says employeesboasting the badges were turned away from offices in San Mateo, San Jose, Sacramentoand Reno.
AT&T spokesman John Britton said the company is committed to bargaining in goodfaith with the union.
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MONTPELIER, Vt. For Jennifer Stella, it’s aquestion of informed consent. Her son had aseizure after getting childhood vaccinationsand her daughter suffered a “head-to-toe”eczema outbreak; she says parents shouldresearch the risks and benefits of immuniza-tions and decide which ones are appropriate.
For Jill Olson, a mother of two, it’s a mat-ter of trusting the experts. “There’s not real-ly any way that as an individual I can domore scientific study and research than theAmerican Academy of Pediatrics or theCenters for Disease Control.”
For Vermont House Speaker Shap Smith,the state motto sums it up: “freedom andunity” — individual choice versus the publichealth benefit of having a high percentage ofkids vaccinated.
“It’s a balance between individual rightsand our obligations to each other in society,”the Democratic speaker said.
For much of the legislative session,Vermont has been embroiled in a debateover whether to end the “philosophicalexemption” — essentially a right of refusalfor parents who want to enroll their childrenin school or child care without immuniza-tions. The list of shots called for by the stateHealth Department and the CDC is roughly20 by the time a child enters kindergarten.
The CDC and state health officials sayVermont is among the states with the high-est exemption rates for childhood vaccina-tions. Some say it’s no coincidence thatVermont recently has seen an outbreak ofone of the diseases the vaccines target: per-
tussis, or whooping cough.In 2010-11, the latest school year for
which data is available, an Associated Pressanalysis of state health department datashowed Alaska with nearly 9 percent ofkindergarten children exempted. Colorado’srate was 7 percent and Vermont andWashington state each had 6 percent.
As the 2012 legislative session windsdown, lawmakers are at loggerheads: TheSenate voted 26-4 in early March to elimi-nate the philosophical exemption; the Housevoted 93-36 earlier this month to keep it.
If no agreement is reached, the legislationwill die and Vermont will remain among the20 states that allow some form of philosoph-ical exemption from required childhoodimmunizations. All but a handful of statesoffer religious exemptions, and all allowmedical exemptions for kids.
Many of Vermont’s more vocal vaccineskeptics are active in alternative health andnatural food movements and are critical ofwhat they see as a profit-driven pharmaceu-tical industry. Stella, a homeopathic healthpractitioner, works at a clinic that also offersmassage and herbal medicine.
Critics of the philosophical exemptionsay Vermont’s immunization rates have beendropping, a slide that must be halted to pre-serve what public health officials call “herdimmunity.” That’s when most of the popula-tion is immunized against a specific diseaseto keep outbreaks from occurring.
Christine Finley, immunization programmanager at the state Health Department,said the percentage of Vermont kinder-garteners with all their required immuniza-tions dropped from 93 percent in 2005 to 83
percent in 2010.Aside from pertussis, Finley said,
Vermont has not seen big increases in othervaccine-preventable diseases, but she arguedprevention is necessary. “Do you want towait until you’ve got a measles outbreak?”she asked.
Stella’s group, the Vermont Coalition forVaccine Choice, says the rate of vaccinationdecline is exaggerated, since kids are count-ed as unvaccinated if they miss just one ofthe required shots.
Finley said Vermont and other states withhigh exemption rates have seen recent out-breaks of pertussis, or whooping cough, asometimes fatal bacterial infection of theupper respiratory tract. Pertussis vaccine ispart of the required childhood immunizationschedule. And because the immunity wearsoff over time, the CDC advises everyone 11and older to get a booster shot, Finley said.
Vermont saw 102 pertussis cases betweenJanuary and the first week of April, Finleysaid, more than were reported in the state alllast year. Washington state had 640 cases ofpertussis from January through March, upfrom 94 for the same period last year.
One of the most vocal Vermont lawmak-ers pushing to end the philosophical exemp-tion has been Rep. George Till, D-Jericho, anobstetrician-gynecologist. He has com-plained bitterly of parents failing to get theirchildren immunized and putting other chil-dren at risk.
“The question is whether they have theright to endanger other children in theschool setting,” he said during a recentHouse debate on ending the philosophicalexemption.
Stella dismissed that criticism, saying vac-cines aren’t always effective in all childrenand that some who have received shots are assusceptible to disease as those who have not.
One hot spot for the immunizationdebate in Vermont has been Middlesex, justoutside the capital of Montpelier, where 41of 157 elementary children at RumneyMemorial School come from families fillingout a state form and exempting them fromvaccines.
Rumney school nurse Martha Israel —who was quick to say she was speaking onlyfor herself and not for the school — said shedoes not want to see kids kicked out ofschool because their parents won’t havethem vaccinated.
“I don’t think we deny our children inVermont a public school education becausewe don’t agree with the medical choices theirparents make, when we’re not in a publichealth crisis,” said Israel, a school nurse since1989.
Gov. Peter Shumlin has sided with theHouse’s push for more education on immu-nizations over the Senate’s push to removethe philosophical exemption — a 180-degree turn from the position his healthcommissioner, Dr. Harry Chen, pushed forearlier in this year’s legislative session.
“I do not believe that in the end the gov-ernment should dictate to parents whatinoculations their kids have to get in order toget a public education in Vermont,” the gov-ernor said. He said he wants Vermont to“start with more education, to separate themyths that you read about on the Internetwith the facts that health care providers willgive you on this.”
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NEW YORK A generation of shelteredAmerican children grew up in the shadow ofanxiety that fell over this country one day in1979, when a little boy with a charming grinvanished from a Manhattan street corner.
They never knew his name or saw thatangelic-looking face. But their parentswould never forget it.
For some, their caution was simply aresult of what they read in news reports.Others, including Jim Stratton, had animmediate and very personal reason to beafraid.
“It sent a chill through everybody,” saidStratton, 73, whose son was in the sameneighborhood play group as Etan Patz, the6-year-old who never boarded his school buson May 25, 1979. “You could not leave yourchild for a minute. Anywhere. It was like adark cloud had come over the neighbor-hood.”
Before Etan disappeared, the notion thata child could be abducted right off the street,in broad daylight, was not familiar. Childrenroamed their hometowns freely, unencum-bered by fear. They could walk to school andthe bus stop and just about anywhere theypleased all by themselves. That all changedafter Etan set off for school in his favoritepilot’s cap and corduroy jacket and did notreturn.
A new age of paranoia had grabbed holdof the national psyche. And so many yearslater, that paralyzing sense of fear has yet tofully release its grip.
“In many ways, it was the end of an era ofinnocence,” said Ernie Allen, president of theNational Center for Exploited and MissingChildren. “And parents suddenly becamemuch more protective and much more hov-ering over their children.”
Etan was one of the first missing childrenwhose face would appear on a milk carton.In the coming years more faces would fol-low, mutely appealing for help from a publicthat began, for the first time, to mobilize ona grand scale in its efforts to find them. Evennow, after more than 30 years, we stillhaven’t given up hope for a resolution, foranswers to every parent’s worst nightmare.
Last week, authorities began ripping upan old basement near Etan’s SoHo loft withthe aim of finding his remains, spurred onby a cadaver-sniffing dog that picked up ascent there.
“He was here the whole time for all of us,”said Cass Collins, Stratton’s wife, who hasbeen haunted by the boy’s disappearanceever since. “He was always in our thoughts.”
The ones who never made it home arepainfully seared in the nation’s collectivememory. There was 6-year-old Adam Walsh,kidnapped and killed in 1981 when he wan-dered away from his mother at a departmentstore in Hollywood, Fla.
There was 12-year-old paperboy JohnnyGosch, never again seen after vanishing onhis newspaper route in 1982 in West DesMoines, Iowa.
There was Jacob Wetterling, abducted bya masked gunman in 1989 while riding hisbicycle home from a convenience store in St.Joseph, Minn.
“There were some kids who biked aroundwith a switchblade in their basket after ithappened,” said Alison Feigh, 34, who grewup with Wetterling and sat next to him insixth-grade math class. “There was a changeof our innocence at that time. In sixth grade,I didn’t even have the word abduction —
that wasn’t even part of my vocabulary.”Now a program coordinator for the Jacob
Wetterling Resource Center, which teachesparents and children how to build safercommunities, Feigh is fighting for a world inwhich children can explore beyond the edgeof their driveways in this era of helicopterparenting.
“We want kids to walk around smart andnot scared,” she said.
But how to shake the fear? Collins, awriter, has two grown sons, one of whomwas a rather anxious kid, often fretting aboutventuring off on his own, she said. Lastweek, when she read about the renewedsearch for Etan and felt that old familiar gutpunch to her stomach, Collins decided toapologize to her son.
“I said to him, ‘If you got a sense from usthat the world is a scary place, it came fromEtan Patz,’” she said, her voice choked withtears. “That’s where it came from. And I’msorry if we did do that. Because it’s not agood thing to imbue in a child.”
Yukie Ohta, now 43, was 10 years oldwhen Etan disappeared from SoHo, whereshe grew up. They used to play in the samebasement that is now being torn up by inves-tigators. She remembers making necklacesout of dry macaroni down there. And shevividly recalls the search for her playmatethat went on for weeks.
The posters, the neighborhood meetings,the milk cartons. The police officers knock-ing on her door.
“I would never let my child take the busalone at age 8 or 10, but we all did when wewere kids,” Ohta said. “I think it was just adifferent time and place.”
Ohta’s mother brought her up with therose-colored idea that Etan was still outthere somewhere, alive. She has clung to thisstory, all the while knowing it was probablynot true.
“That idea sort of has been shattered,” shesaid last week after the latest search for hisremains began. “And it’s a little hard to take.You try to cope with something the best youcan. And if you don’t know, you can make upstories.”
With each lost child came improvementsin the way law enforcement agencies handlereports of missing children. In 1982,Congress passed the Missing Children Act,which established a toll-free missing chil-dren’s hotline. Two years later, the NationalCenter for Exploited and Missing Childrencame into existence.
After 9-year-old Amber Hagerman wasabducted and murdered in Arlington, Texas,in 1996, the Amber Alert was created tobroadcast news of a missing child throughradio and television stations and on bill-boards.
These are just a few of the many protec-tions enacted throughout the years. As aresult, experts say, it’s never been safer to bea child growing up in America.
Try telling that to parents like JodiHalkin, of Palm Beach, Fla., who grew uparound the corner from Adam Walsh. Themall where he was abducted stood across thestreet from her father’s office. Halkin won’teven write her children’s names on their T-shirts or backpacks out of fear that astranger might be able to call one of them byname.
“Though I realize that the likelihood ofany one of my own three children beingabducted is likely less than them beingstruck by lightning,” she wrote in an e-mail,“that doesn’t mean that it’s not a real, albeitslightly irrational, fear.”
After NYC boy vanished,era of anxiety was born
November ballot.The petitioners began gathering signa-
tures over the weekend, according to the CityClerk’s Office.
The team behind the hotel, led by localproperty owner Alexander Gorby, was “puz-zled” to hear about the referendum, said KenKutcher, a land-use attorney shepherdingthe project through the approval process.
“The project is not controversial,”Kutcher said. “It’s a good project, it willbring tax revenue and employment oppor-tunities. It’s the first project of its kind tohave a living wage requirement.”
The living wage requirement was one ofthe only portions of the development agree-ment that drew fire at City Council hearingson March 20 and 27. Members of the busi-ness community and Unite Here! filled theCouncil Chambers for the first reading ofthe law that would signal the council’sacceptance of the terms of the developmentagreement for the hotel.
Council members wrangled over the liv-ing wage, going through several motionsbefore arriving at a wage rate betweenGorby’s original proposal and that advocat-ed by the unions.
The final vote — which promised a wage ofeither $11.29 or $12.54 per hour depending onwhether workers received benefits — fell farshort of the $15 per hour union representa-tives were hoping for and looked like an over-step to members of the business community.
The union decided that more dramaticaction had to be taken after the ordinancepassed on its second reading on March 27,Torres said.
“We knew that the vote on the second
reading required immediate response,”Torres said. “There was no time to delay andcontemplate how things are going to go.”
If the development agreement is discard-ed by the council in July or goes to the ballotbox in November, it will not guarantee theunion a higher living wage at the hotel, but itwill have farther-reaching implications.
The development agreement for 710Wilshire Blvd. required that at least two otherfuture hotels be saddled with some kind ofliving wage provision. If they didn’t, hotelworkers at the 710 Wilshire project would nolonger be promised the higher wage rates.
Those agreements will be coming beforeofficials in coming months. If the 710Wilshire development agreement does notsurvive, the other hotels could have a livingwage provision that their competitor doesnot have.
If it does not fail but the other hotelsnegotiate without a living wage provision,the question with 710 Wilshire’s living wageis moot.
Furthermore, City Hall could lose thechance at an $11 million restoration of thelandmarked Santa Monica ProfessionalBuilding.
That kind of opportunity doesn’t comealong every day, said Carol Lemlein of the SantaMonica Conservancy, which has come out insupport of the project at recent meetings.
“Over time, it was growing rather shabby,”Lemlein said. “One has to be worried aboutthese buildings if they’re not put into anactive use. They can be up for demolition.”
Although the process is complicated,landmarked buildings can be demolished.To date, at least four landmarked buildingshave been demolished or substantiallydemolished in Santa Monica.
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U.S. Supreme Court, but the high court alsogave the state leeway to negotiate the finalinmate count.
The state will have difficulty demonstrat-ing why the judicial panel and the nation’shigh court were wrong in setting a lowerpopulation cap, said Rebekah Evenson, anattorney with the Berkeley-based nonprofitPrison Law Office that plans to oppose themove.
Prison officials likely would have to con-tinue housing inmates in private prisons outof state if the court rejects the state’s highergoal for its inmate population and orders itto meet next year’s deadline.
The federal courts had ordered the state toreduce its inmate population by 40,000 fromthe record high of 173,479 in 2006, rulingthat jamming inmates into triple bunks, dayrooms, gyms and other areas was preventingthe rapid and efficient delivery of medicalcare. The corrections department has shed alittle more than 20,000 prisoners so far.
While it argues against building new pris-ons, the corrections department is goingwith a separate plan to build medical andmental health facilities to accommodate themandates of a federal receivership that hasbeen in place since 2006. That includes anew prison hospital in Stockton to treatinmates requiring long-term medical careand intensive mental health treatment.
The state and attorneys representing
inmates have a deadline next week to recom-mend to a federal judge how and when toend the receivership.
“It’s our goal to get out of all of ourhealth care-related court oversight by theend of 2013,” Cate said.
Complying with the court oversight ofinmate medical and mental health treatmentis just one of the challenges facing the stateprison system. Equally problematic isCalifornia’s ongoing budget crisis.
The Legislature has cut tens of billions ofdollars from higher education, health care,social services, state parks and other corefunctions during the recession, a time whenstate prison costs have soared.
California’s prison costs rose from 3 per-cent of general fund spending in 1980 to 11percent in 2009. If the master plan releasedMonday is implemented, that would fall to7.5 percent.
County officials have expressed concernover the realignment plan because the statehas not guaranteed them the money to payfor it. Gov. Jerry Brown wants to place thatguarantee in the state Constitution as part ofa tax-hike initiative he is proposing for theNovember ballot.
The master plan released Monday alsocalls for closing the California RehabilitationCenter, a 3,900-inmate medium securityprison in the Riverside County communityof Norco, a building that opened in 1928 asa luxury hotel and served as a Naval hospitalbefore the state took it over.
Closing the prison would save about $160million a year in operating costs.
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available in the current fiscal year.Staff selected IPC, Inc. out of a pool of
five bidders. The company offered the lowestcost and came with positive feedback,according to a staff report.
The purchase constitutes a change in pastpolicy because emergency response vehicleshave used premium gasoline in the past. Thenew contract with IPC, Inc. only covers reg-ular gasoline.
BBB SERVICESCity officials are asking the council to
sign off on three contracts totaling$1,036,921 covering detailing services andreplacement parts for city buses and extrasecurity for the Big Blue Bus campus.
The first is a three-year contract withUniserve Facilities Service, Inc., a California-based company, for cleaning services for theBig Blue Bus system.
City Hall has $292,000 set aside for thefirst two years of the contract. The remain-ing money will have to be approved at afuture date.
The second is a $300,000 contract forreplacement parts for the diesel transitbuses.
Staff selected Ironman Inc., a California-based company, to provide “particulatetraps” for the buses. The componentsremove soot and other materials fromengine exhaust.
The total contract is for $450,000, butonly $300,000 is requested for approval onTuesday night.
The last matter is a $126,500 addition toa security contract with ABM Security Inc.to pay for extra security needed at a fuel sta-tion near the Fifth Street exit off Interstate10.
SCRUB A DUBCouncil is likely to approve a $480,000
contract to purchase eco-friendly cleaningchemicals from California-based Hillyard,Inc.
Hillyard, Inc.’s products were recom-mended by in-house and contract custodialstaff because they performed better than theproducts of two other competitors for thecontract.
Hillyard’s products have been approvedby the Office of Sustainability and theEnvironment for use throughout the city.
The contract would run through June 30,2016.
INSPECTION SERVICESCity Hall is looking to contract with
Willdan Geotechnical for inspection andtesting services on the rebuilt ParkingStructure 6.
The company beat out four other firmsbecause of its experience, references andcompetitive prices, according to a staffreport.
The $285,500 contract will pay for mate-rial testing and inspection to ensure that theconcrete, masonry, steel, welding work andbolts that go into the newly-constructedparking structure meet City Hall’s require-
ments.The parking structure is currently being
demolished. The new building is expected tobe finished in late 2013.
BROADCAST SERVICESBecause no one wants to be deprived of
their bi-weekly Tuesday night entertain-ment, City Hall is renewing a contract withthe Santa Monica Community CollegeDistrict to broadcast City Council meetingsover its radiowaves.
The $152,520 contract pays for anotheryear of live radio broadcasts of the councilmeetings from 8 p.m. to midnight on publicradio station 89.9 FM KCRW.
City Hall plans to renegotiate the con-tract for the 2014 fiscal year.
The broadcasts cover a 150-mile radiusthroughout Southern California and KCRWclaims a weekly listenership of 550,000.
City Hall and the district have contractedto broadcast the meetings for over 20 years.
BIKE FUNDSSometimes you have to spend money to
make money.City officials want $120,000 to compete
for a $1.2 million grant from the CaliforniaDepartment of Transportation to pay fordesign and construction of a bike center on17th Street.
The money equates to a 10 percentmatching requirement for the grant, whichwould be used to build facilities to supportbicyclists who use the Exposition Light Railline at the planned 17th Street station.
The $1.08 million facility will includebike parking, lockers, showers, bike sharingand information for visitors. It’s expected toserve those Santa Monica College studentswho use the station.
MORE INSPECTIONIf approved by the council on Tuesday,
the Smith-Emery Co. will get $113,212 totest structural concrete, masonry and groutelements at two parks being built adjacent toCity Hall.
The firm beat out 20 others for the staffrecommendation to perform testing serviceson the Palisades Garden Walk and TownSquare Park, according to the report.
The firm will supply a deputy inspector,275 concrete cylinder tests and 75 masonry,mortar and grout tests.
The inspector will be on the project for140 days from April 2012 to July 2013.
MARIA, MARIA!City staff are requesting $15,000 to keep
on the retiring city clerk until a replacementcan be found.
According to a staff report, the headhunting firm Alliance Resource Consultingwill bring forward candidates in enoughtime for the City Council to select a newclerk by June or July.
Rather than allow a lapse in services,Maria Stewart, who is expected to retire inMay, will be kept on for election-related tasks.
All other clerk duties will be assigned tothe assistant city clerk during the interimperiod.
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WASHINGTON The Supreme Court will referee anothermajor clash between the Obama administration and thestates, this one over Arizona’s crackdown on illegal immi-grants. The case could add fuel to the partisan split overtough state immigration laws backed by Republicans butchallenged by the administration.
Like last month’s arguments over President BarackObama’s health care overhaul, the immigration case isexpected to be decided at the end of June.
Wednesday’s arguments will focus on whether states canadopt their own immigration measures to deal with an esti-mated 11 million illegal immigrants, or whether the federalgovernment has almost exclusive authority in the area ofimmigration.
Arizona was the first of a half-dozen states to enactlaws intended to drive illegal immigrants elsewhere, a pol-icy known as “attrition by enforcement.” Even whereblocked by courts, these laws have already had an impacton farm fields and school classrooms as fewer immigrantsshowed up.
“If the federal government had been doing and wouldcontinue to do its job in securing the border here in south-ern Arizona, this would not be an issue. Unfortunately,they failed to do that so Arizona stepped up and said, ‘Wewant to be partners. Here’s a role we think we can play,’”said Sheriff Larry Dever of Cochise County, which sharesan 83.5-mile border with Mexico in the state’s southeast-ern corner.
The administration says it has both increased borderenforcement to keep people from entering illegally in thefirst place and picked up the pace of deportations. In its firsttwo years, the administration deported nearly 800,000 peo-ple, far higher on a yearly basis than President George W.Bush’s administration.
The Obama administration sued to block the Arizona lawsoon after its enactment two years ago. Federal courts haverefused to let four key provisions take effect: requiringpolice, while enforcing other laws, to question a person’simmigration status if officers suspect he is in the countryillegally; requiring all immigrants to obtain or carry immi-gration registration papers; making it a state criminaloffense for an illegal immigrant to seek work or hold a joband allowing police to arrest suspected illegal immigrantswithout warrants.
Five states — Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, South Carolinaand Utah — have adopted variations on Arizona’s law. Partsof those laws also are on hold pending the outcome of theSupreme Court case.
Civil rights groups that mounted legal challenges inde-pendent of the administration’s say the laws encourageracial profiling and ethnic stereotyping. “It blurs whatused to be a very bright line, that you can’t stop someoneand ask for papers based just on how they look,” saidAnthony Romero, executive director of the American CivilLiberties Union. “But the impact is on citizens as much asimmigrants. It’s a dragnet approach that sweeps up law-abiding American citizens based on the color of their skinor ethnic origins.”
And the state laws already have had a marked effect onpeople’s behavior, whether or not the laws ever went intoforce, the groups say.
In some states, crops rotted in fields for want of workersto pick them. In Alabama, where a provision requiredschools to check student’s citizenship status, more than2,000 students stayed home the first week the law was ineffect, said Karen Tumlin, managing attorney for theNational Immigration Law Center. Foreign employees,including a German Mercedes-Benz executive, have beendetained or ticketed for not carrying immigration docu-ments.
In Arizona, around the time Gov. Jan Brewer signed theimmigration law, lifelong Arizona resident Jim Shee twiceconfronted police officers who came to his car window ask-ing to see his “papers.”
Shee, 72, is of Chinese and Spanish descent. “I’m notblond-haired and blue-eyed. My grandkids aren’t blond-haired and blue-eyed. I don’t want to see this happening tothem,” Shee said.
He has joined a lawsuit filed by a coalition of civil rightsgroups. The suit is on hold until the high court renders adecision.
Shee said he carries his passport in case he gets stoppedagain.
The number of illegal immigrants in Arizona hasdeclined by about a third in recent years, from 530,000 in2007 to 360,000 in 2011, according to federal governmentestimates.
Experts have attributed the decrease to several factors,including the economic downturn, tighter border securityand state immigration laws. A 2007 Arizona law, allowed totake effect last year by the Supreme Court, prohibits employ-ers from knowingly hiring illegal immigrants.
But in Arizona and elsewhere, the appetite for newimmigration measures appears to have waned, in partbecause business leaders have objected. Arizona votersousted Republican state Sen. Russell Pearce, the architectof the 2010 law and the driving force behind otherArizona immigration laws, in a November recall elec-tion.
“There has been a great deal of buyer’s remorse in thosestates that have enacted Arizona-type legislation,” theACLU’s Romero said.
The high court decision will land in the middle of a pres-idential campaign in which Obama has been heavily court-ing Latino voters and presumptive Republican nominee MittRomney has been struggling to win Latino support after adrawn-out primary campaign in which he and the otherGOP candidates mostly embraced a hard line to avoid accu-sations that they support any kind of “amnesty” for illegalimmigrants living in the U.S.
Justice Elena Kagan sat out last year’s case and also willnot take part in the new immigration case, presumablybecause of her work in the Obama administration. Thecourt’s conservative majority held sway in last year’s 5-3decision.
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ORLANDO, Fla. George Zimmerman, whoslipped out of jail on $150,000 bail in theearly morning darkness, went back into hid-ing Monday and likely fled to another stateto avoid threats as he awaits his second-degree murder trial for the killing of TrayvonMartin.
Even though authorities can pinpoint hislocation with a GPS ankle braceletZimmerman must wear 24-7, the public maynot see him again for some time.Zimmerman has waived his appearance athis upcoming arraignment next month, sohe can stay underground if he wants.
His release from jail came less than a daybefore the city commission was to vote toapprove the permanent resignation ofSanford Police Chief Bill Lee, who wasroundly criticized for not initially chargingZimmerman in the case.
Zimmerman already has experience lay-ing low: For more than a month before hisarrest, he eluded the media and his where-abouts were not known. His attorney hassuggested he had several options for whereZimmerman can stay this time, and a judgeindicated he was willing to let Zimmermanleave the state.
Until the next time he must come beforea judge, Zimmerman will have to skip suchroutine pleasures as eating in a restaurant ortaking a long stroll outside, said Jose Baez, aformer attorney for Casey Anthony.Anthony, acquitted last summer of killingher 2-year-old daughter, went into hidingafter her release from jail.
“He may be free, but he’s not free,” Baezsaid.
First, Zimmerman must limit who knowshis whereabouts to avoid the risk someonewill give the secret away, Baez said.
“Unfortunately, the people you think youtrust, sometimes you find you just reallycan’t,” Baez said.
To throw off curious onlookers and themedia, Zimmerman could change his look.Anthony went from a long-haired brunetteto a bobbed blonde while serving a year ofprobation on an unrelated charge at anundisclosed location in Florida.
Next, Zimmerman needs to go some-place where he knows few people and theydon’t know him, said Evan Ratliff, whowrote the book (or at least the magazinearticle) on how to vanish in the 21st centu-ry. In 2009, Wired magazine challenged itsreaders to try to find Ratcliff, who deliber-ately vanished with the help of disguises,prepaid phones, fake business cards andsoftware that protected his Internet identi-ty, at least for a while. Ratliff eventually wascaught because readers were able to tracehim through the IP address of a computerhe had used.
“He needs to be where he is not aroundpeople who are known to be close to him,”Ratliff said. “Not a friend’s house. Not a rel-ative’s house.”
Zimmerman needs to refrain from mak-ing any public statements, whether via socialmedia sites like Facebook or Twitter or hisown website, www.therealgeorgezimmer-man.com, both Baez and Ratliff said.Zimmerman is using his website to helpraise money for his legal defense.
Early indications are that will be toughfor Zimmerman to resist. After a judgeagreed to release him on bond, a statementplaced on his website said, “GZ hopes to beable to update the site in the next day or two,
God willing. He sends his thanks for yourthoughts and support.”
If he just can’t resist getting messages outto his supporters, Zimmerman may be bet-ter off using Facebook and Twitter instead ofhis website because it probably has muchweaker security than the social media sites,Ratliff said. Someone could find out wherehe is by hacking his website or an emailaccount, he said.
“Anytime you are on the Internet, you arepotentially traceable,” Ratliff said. “The bestway to not be found by anyone is to not useany technology at all.”
Whatever means Zimmerman uses tohide, it could get expensive.
Zimmerman has limited resources. Hewas working at a mortgage risk managementfirm but stopped working there after theconfrontation with Martin because of thepublic attention. His wife, Shellie, is in nurs-ing school and doesn’t work.
His attorney, Mark O’Mara, did notreturn phone calls Monday but has ruled outZimmerman getting a job while he is out onbail. And O’Mara wrote in court papers thatZimmerman “has no significant financialassets or savings.”
Zimmerman at least has some experiencehiding. He went underground after the Feb.26 confrontation with Martin at theSanford, Fla., gated community of town-homes where Zimmerman lived.
Martin was unarmed and was walkingback to the home of his father’s fiancee whenthe neighborhood watch volunteer saw him,called police and began following him. Afight broke out — investigators say it isunknown who started it.
Zimmerman says Martin, who was visit-ing from Miami, attacked him. Zimmermansays he shot Martin in self-defense, citingFlorida’s “stand your ground” law, whichgives broad legal protection to anyone whosays they used deadly force because theyfeared death or great bodily harm.
Zimmerman was not charged for morethan six weeks, sparking nationwideprotests. Martin was black; Zimmerman’sfather is white and his mother is fromPeru. A special prosecutor appointed byGov. Rick Scott to investigate filed a sec-ond-degree murder charge earlier thismonth.
Martin’s parents have a “heavy heart”now that Zimmerman has been releasedfrom jail, said Benjamin Crump, an attorneyfor the 17-year-old’s parents, Tracy Martinand Sybrina Fulton.
“They hope his freedom is temporarybecause the pain he has caused this family ispermanent,” Crump said Monday.
The shooting led to the local prosecutorrecusing himself from the case, and theSanford City Commission was to voteMonday to approve police Chief Bill Lee’spermanent resignation. Lee, who had gottena vote of “no confidence” from commission-ers, stepped aside temporarily in March tolet emotions cool.
As a condition of his release, Zimmermancannot have any guns and must observe a 7p.m.-to-6 a.m. curfew. He surrendered hispassport and will have to contact his moni-tors every three days.
Given his success at eluding searchersbefore his arrest, Baez said he is confidentZimmerman will keep out of public view.
“Based on his prior actions, he seems tobe a very careful guy,” Baez said. “Based onhis prior ability to lay low, he will be fine. Heis going to do exactly what is required ofhim.”
Now out of jail, Zimmermanfades from sight while waiting
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ALAMEDA, Calif. For nearly a half-century,Al Davis ran the Oakland Raiders’ draftroom in his own unique way. He covetedspeed and size, seemingly ahead of almost allother attributes.
His picks often baffled so-called expertsand other teams, with some turning intosurprising successes and others into notableflops.
Now there’s a new man in charge inOakland. General manager Reggie McKenziebegan overhauling the organization afterbeing hired in January and now is preparingfor the team’s first draft since Davis died lastOctober. This will be the first Raiders draftthat Davis has not run since 1962.
“It’s an exciting time,” McKenzie said.“Coach Davis, this has been his deal sincethe Raiders were the Raiders. So, I am thenew guy. This is my first time drafting after alegend has been drafting for the Raiders forso long. So, it’s huge. But I am excited aboutit and I am looking forward to it. There arestill so many people in the organization, so Iget to hear everything about how he used todo it.”
McKenzie will likely have to wait a whileto make his first pick, which won’t be untilthe final selection on Day 2 with the 95thoverall pick at the end of the third round —the first of the team’s three compensatorypicks.
The Raiders traded their first-round picklast October for quarterback Carson Palmer,a second-rounder during last year’s draft forbackup running back Taiwan Jones andoffensive lineman Joe Barksdale, and spent athird-rounder to take quarterback projectTerrelle Pryor in the supplemental draft.
Oakland also dealt a fourth-rounder toWashington in 2010 for former startingquarterback Jason Campbell and a seventh-rounder last year for starting outside line-backer Aaron Curry.
That leaves McKenzie with compensatorypicks at the end of the third, fourth and fifthrounds and Oakland’s original picks in thefifth and sixth. With McKenzie unable totrade compensatory picks and unwilling to
give up future high picks, it seems unlikelythe Raiders will be able to pick before 95th.
“We need some depth to compete andhopefully win jobs,” he said. “That’s whatwe’re targeting. When we say best player,whether it’s D-line, linebacker, O-line, tightend ... it doesn’t matter. We want to get agood player. We’ve got five picks. We need tomake them all count.”
Davis’ drafting acumen helped buildchampionship teams in the 1970s and 80s.He got Super Bowl-winning quarterbackKen Stabler and Hall of Fame offensive line-man Art Shell in the second and thirdrounds in 1968; big-play receiver CliffBranch in the fourth round in 1972; Hall ofFame tight end Dave Casper in the secondround in 1974; star cornerback Lester Hayesin the fifth round in 1977 and Hall of Famedefensive end Howie Long in the secondround in 1981.
But there were more misses than hits inrecent years, contributing to a run of ninestraight seasons without a winning record orplayoff berth.
Of the 12 first-round picks since 2001,including six players in the top 10, NnamdiAsomugha is the only one to make a ProBowl. More notable were busts like quarter-back JaMarcus Russell in 2007 or takingoffensive lineman Robert Gallery over LarryFitzgerald in 2004.
There was also the constant obsessionwith speed, most notably when Davis draft-ed Darrius Heyward-Bey seventh overall in2009, ahead of far more accomplishedreceivers. Heyward-Bey had a breakthroughseason last year but still has fewer recep-tions, yards and touchdowns than the fivereceivers taken after him in the first roundthat year.
The infatuation with speed got to thepoint that as soon as a player clocked in atunder 4.4 seconds in the 40-yard dash at theNFL combine, jokes immediately startedthat the Raiders will draft him no matterwhat he’s done on the football field.
Last year’s Raiders roster featured thefastest players at the last three combines andfive other players clocked at 4.36 seconds orbetter in the 40 at the combine or their prodays.
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Be among friends tonight, SagARIES (March 21-April 19) ★★★★★ Take a serious look at your talentsand potential. Use these abilities rather thanput them on the back burner. Do not hesitate toget feedback from respected authorities; listento what is being shared. Tonight: Impulsivenesscould set in.
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■ When workers at the CarlsbergBeer plant in Vilnius, Lithuania,decided to walk out over poor payand conditions, the company wentto court to block them, and inMarch, a judge ruled for the com-pany, temporarily halting a strikeas not in the national interestbecause Carlsberg Beer is "vitallyessential," thus placing the brewin the same legal category asmedical supplies. (Said a Britishlabor union official, "This is prob-ably the most ridiculous decisionin the world.") [Daily Telegraph, 3-5-2012] ■ Recurring Theme: In March, anew peak was reached in NewYork City's ongoing search for themost preposterously underpriced(because of rent control) apart-ment in the city. The Gothamistwebsite identified a one-bedroomapartment at 5 Spring Street inManhattan's SoHo district rentingfor $55 a month even though,according to a real estate agent, itshould be drawing $2,500. Thetenant's parents moved in uponimmigrating from Italy in the1940s, and since the tenant, nowin his 70s, has a much youngerwife, the apartment could remainunder rent control for decades.(New York City rent controls wereimposed to meet an "emergency"in housing during World War II, butthe law gets routinely renewed.)
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1996– In the United States,the Antiterrorism and
Effective Death Penalty Act of1996 is introduced.
2004– The United Stateslifts economic sanc-
tions imposed on Libya 18 yearspreviously, as a reward for itscooperation in eliminatingweapons of mass destruction.
2005– Cardinal JosephRatzinger is inaugu-
rated as the 265th Pope of theRoman Catholic Church taking thename Pope Benedict XVI.
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