| No more weekends off: P’s & C’s reporting
The great L.A. Times scribe Jim Murray once said, "Spring is the time of year when the ground thaws, trees bud, the income tax falls due — and everybody wins the pennant." And so it is that your correspondent, memorably dubbed as the faux "crusading everyman" by one of our angrier blog participants, has already done his taxes, an annual end-of-January ritual before heading to spring training and being immersed in a six-week world where normal life is put on hold and baseball takes precedence over all else. We'll be headed down Wednesday, a day before pitchers and catchers are officially required to report. Need some time to stock the fridge of the rental house and get a lay of the land in our new neighborhood, plus stop by the ballpark at Dark Star to see how many eager Braves arrived early.
Legal hurdles high for voter petitions Critics say initiatives being ...
And she wanted to block petition circulators from promising one thing when the real purpose of their petitions is something far different. "I don't dislike the petition process," said Gansert, now the Assembly minority leader, last week. "But let's be clear what a petition is all about. Don't say they are going to do one thing when what they do is something else." But since her bill became law, three petitions to increase the gaming tax rate have been tossed out by judges after the Nevada Resort Association complained they violated the single-subject rule. Two others to limit property taxes were jettisoned by sponsor Sharron Angle before scheduled court dates because of AFL-CIO objections to their summaries. Only two petitions, one to legalize marijuana and another to restrict government's use of eminent domain proceedings to acquire land, have qualified for placement on election ballots since Gansert's bill became law in 2005.
Zuda Comics takes comic books online and invites reader
Read. Vote. Create. That's the Zeitgeist of Zuda Comics, a new online DC Comics site that's putting adventurous comic creators on the same page - or, rather, screen - with comic readers interested in expanding their horizons beyond familiar superhero fare. Make that well beyond. Each month zudacomics.com invites those who may be weary of caped crusaders and wall crawlers to check out a genre-defying mix of 10 fresh comic stories by up-and-coming creators. Non registered users can read the comics. Registered users can vote for their favorite comics and add comments, sometimes creating dialogues between fans and creators. Each monthly winner receives a contract from Zuda to continue producing exclusive installments on the site for up to a year.
Clinton needs big win to cut into Obama's delegate lead
As much as Hillary Clinton wants to win Ohio on Tuesday, a two-percentage point win won't do her much good in the delegate count. Under the complex mathematical formula the Ohio Democratic Party will use Tuesday to divvy up the 141 delegates at stake in Tuesday's Ohio primary, a candidate has to win big -- really big -- to win the lion's share of the delegates. .
Video Furnace Adds Techex to European Distributor Network
LIBERTYVILLE, Ill. --(Business Wire)-- Video Furnace (www.videofurnace.com), a leading provider of enterprise-class IP video solutions, today signed an agreement with Techex (www.techex.co.uk), Europe's largest distributor of video transmission technology, to resell Video Furnace System 4 throughout Europe, effectively increasing market coverage by at least 33 percent.
.
Cox set to rejoin Braves
KISSIMMEE, Fla. - The Braves had to get through their first full-squad workout without an inspirational speech from Bobby Cox. The manager missed Wednesday's workout while attending the funeral of his mother-in-law back in Georgia. He's expected to rejoin the team today, firing up his players a day later than normal. "I kind of missed his opening day speech," third baseman Chipper Jones said. "He kind of gets us all jacked up with his optimism for the upcoming season. We missed that ... but we'll just have to wait one day to get it." Bench coach Chino Cadahia ran the team in place of Cox, but he didn't try to fill the manager's shoes - especially the speaking part. He just went over the schedule for the day before everyone hit the field. "It wasn't much of a speech," Jones quipped.
The Surrender Lobby's Tet Offensive
General David Petraeus, letter to the troops December 28, 2007. It has been a bad year for al-Qaeda in Iraq, and the Jihadis' allies in America are feeling their pain. Speaking to The Politico January 17, John Isaacs, executive director of the misnamed Council for a Livable World, explained: "last year was not productive. Our expectations were dashed." The year 2007 began promisingly for the Democrats, who had taken control of the House and Senate after faking out voters with a squad of seemingly pro-military candidates. The "new" Democrats immediately showed their true colors, installing Rep. Nancy Pelosi, a pro-surrender member of the socialist "Progressive Caucus," as Speaker of the House. By May, Rep. Jim McGovern, D-MA, was pledging, "Those of us who oppose this war will be back again and again and again and again until this war has ended." But it didn't work out that way.
|
