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Highlands’ Guy: Tailings

By Highlands Guy On May 17, 2012 · 1 Comment · In City Council, Highlands Guy's Thursday column, News you can use, Planning & Zoning, Tenet's Los Al Medical Center
(Los Alamitos, 5/17/2012) Today’s “Tailings” from our mystery Thursday Columnist includes a whole bunch of  good questions and comments with a few great ideas sprinkled in.  Plus a commendable upgrade I’d missed.  I bolded a few of the best of the best, from my perspective, at least.)  by “Highlands Guy: Just for clarification, tailings is [...]
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Troy Edgar’s at it again!

By Dave Emerson On May 17, 2012 · 3 Comments · In Decency, Troy Edgar
(Los Alamitos, 5/17/2012)  Just when I was wondering if maybe I should vote for the new kinder, gentler Troy Edgar, he sent me a mailer reminding me why I probably won’t. Same slick, full color, big, card stock, professionally prepared, distorted attack piece as our Council Majority members supporters blasted out in Los Alamitos’ last [...]
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Are Long Beach’s budget cuts hurting Los Alamitos?

By Dave Emerson On May 16, 2012 · 1 Comment · In 2012 Issues, Decency, Fire and Safety
Or, “How many Long Beach Animal Care Officers does it take to remove a dead possum?”  (5/16/2012, Los Alamitos)  The call came in at 10:42 this morning: “There’s a  big turkey on Alice Jempsa’s front lawn!” Not  knowing if I’d find Andrew Bynum, a Council Member, or something else, your intrepid blogger sprang into action. [...]
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Los Al “Picnic @ the Plaza Food Trucks through June!

By Dave Emerson On May 15, 2012 · Add Comment · In Food Trucks, Local events, News you can use
(5/15/2012, Los Alamitos) Thanks to Rancho a Go-go’s Master Chef Chris we’ve now got your Thursday night Los Alamitos Food Truck  line-ups right up to the 4th of July. And, trust me (“I’m a Realtor!”), they are outstanding line-ups, featuring ten or eleven trucks every Thursday evening! Check it out: May 17, 2012 Rancho A [...]
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Los Al considering Communications Tax Rate Reduction & Modification

By Dave Emerson On May 14, 2012 · 4 Comments · In 2012 Issues, City Budget, Commission Meetings
5/15 update:  Please note that the meeting time is set for 6:00 p.m. tonight, not 7:00 as indicated in the posted agenda.(Los Alamitos, 5/14/2012)  A comment posted over the weekend discussing each Council Members contributions to last Monday’s Council Meetings alluded to proposed changes in the City’s Utility Users Tax.  The good news (and/or the [...]
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God bless you, Mom!

By Dave Emerson On May 13, 2012 · Add Comment · In Inspiration, News you can use, Sunday Sermons, Songs & Stories
(Los Alamitos, 5/13/2012, Mothers’ Day)  If you can read this, or even  if you can’t read it, but you can hear someone else read it to you, before you thank a teacher, thank your mother! Even if she “abandoned” you at birth, she carried you around for nine long, hot months, endured months of morning [...]
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WALK? . . . WALK!

By Highlands Guy On May 10, 2012 · Add Comment · In Highlands Guy's Thursday column, News you can use, Parks and Recreation, Planning & Zoning, sports
(Los Alamitos, 5/10/2012)  Our Highlands’ Guy has done it again!  Mixed a current topic that keeps coming up in General Plan Meetings with some common sense & inspiring good advice!  Read it, comment on it, &  post it on your Facebook or e-mail it to someone you love! We hear the plea to walk from [...]
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Videos of Monday’s 2 Council Meetings (5/7/2012)

By Dave Emerson On May 10, 2012 · Add Comment · In 2012 Issues, City Budget, City Council Meetings
(Los Alamitos, posted 5/10/2012)  The Regular Council meeting starts with about 30 minutes of presentations, followed by another surprising lovefest except when Mayor Edgar voted against Vice Mayor Poe’s request (yup, you read that right!!) to serve on the ad hoc tax rebate committee.  Actually, he voted for Council Members Kusumoto and Graham-Mejia to serve [...]
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7 pm, Wednesday, second Joint Commission Meeting on General Plan

By Dave Emerson On May 8, 2012 · 4 Comments · In 2012 Issues, Commission Meetings, Planning & Zoning
(5/8/2012, Los Alamitos)  Last month’s combined Joint Commission meeting went so well all involved agreed to continue the process this Wednesday night, 5/9/2012. A month ago, after various interactions, each commission developed their own list of suggested priorities for the General Plan Revision. All three Commissions wanted some sort of walk-able, bike-able district,  and Parks and Planning both [...]
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Your reporting & comments on tonight’s 2 City Council meetings

By Dave Emerson On May 7, 2012 · 3 Comments · In City Council Meetings, Your reporting & comments
(Los Alamitos,5/7/2012)  Two Los Alamitos City Council meetings are scheduled for tonight, both should be televised on Los Al TV3.  This is the place for anyone watching in person or  on TV (live or delayed) to report what you observed & what you thought, both good and bad : At 5 p.m. the council has [...]
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Who’ll be on the tax rebate committee? Monday night Council Agendas

By Dave Emerson On May 6, 2012 · Add Comment · In 2012 Issues, City Council Meetings
(Los Alamitos, 5/6/2012) After their 5 p.m. Special Budget Meeting tomorrow our City Council reconvenes at 7 for their first Regular Meeting of May, a meeting with several interesting items on the agenda, including: 3 Presentations, including one to the High School’s National Champion Girls Cheer Team and one to Corporal Chris Anderson for  demonstrating [...]
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Our Evolving City Council?

By Highlands Guy On May 5, 2012 · Add Comment · In City Council, Highlands Guy's Thursday column, Troy Edgar
(Los Alamitos, 5/5/2012)   Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with this very interesting perspective on changes at City Hall from our Highlands Guy: Can you feel it? Our City Council is evolving. I’m not sure what’s at the end of the near-future road, but I believe there is a perceptible change in the air around City Hall. I [...]
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Is Los Alamitos falling behind?

By Dave Emerson On May 3, 2012 · 4 Comments · In 2012 Issues, Planning & Zoning
(5/3/2012, Los Alamitos) Next Wednesday all three of Los Alamitos major Commissions will have their second joint meeting to  provide input into the City’s General Plan Revision. I was quite impressed with the first such meeting, and apparently so was just about everyone in attendance.  (If you were there, your perspective in the form of [...]
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5/2/2012: Your reporting of & comments on Los Alamitos’ local media

By Dave Emerson On May 2, 2012 · 1 Comment · In News Enterprise & other local media, Your reporting & comments
(5/2/2012, Los Alamitos)  Time once again for you to tell the world what you think is important in our local meeting, along with your commentary. Anything of interest to Los Alamitos or Rossmoor readers is fair game, whether it’s in this week’s News Enterprise, Sun, Register, Press Telegram, or any online or
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Your May 2012 Los Alamitos Community Bulletin Board

By Dave Emerson On May 1, 2012 · 2 Comments · In Community Bulletin Board, Community News, Local events, Los Al calendar, Your reporting & comments
(5/1/2012, Los Alamitos)It’s back! With our March security problems well behind us, it’s time to renew some of our regular posts, like our Community Bulletin Board, where you can find out or let us know. . . . What’s going on this coming weekend?  What’s going on right now? If you’ve got events or news [...]
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