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Thursday, 15 August 2013
Telcos forced to detail real cost of making calls, sending a text or surfing the net when abroad .. (audio)
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Tuesday, 30 July 2013
AG Calls San Diego County Clerk’s Gay Marriage Petition Improper
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California Attorney General Kamala Harris says the elected clerk of San Diego County is improperly using the state’s legal system to try to prevent same-sex couples from getting married.
Harris argued in court papers filed Monday that county clerk Ernest Dronenburg Jr. picked the wrong venue when he asked the California Supreme Court to declare that gay marriages remain illegal in all but two of the state’s 58 counties.
She says the state court does not have authority to limit a federal trial judge’s order declaring California’s voter-approved ban on same-sex marriages to be unconstitutional and prohibiting its enforcement.
The U.S. Supreme Court let that order stand last month, clearing the way for gay marriages to resume.
Harris says Dronenburg is trying only “to create legal uncertainty where none actually exists.”
Dronenburg’s lawyers have until Aug. 9 to respond.
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Court Rejects San Diego County Clerk’s Bid To Stop Gay Marriages
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Carson Mayor Calls On City Council To Declare Condition Of Local Emergency Over Polluted Soil
CARSON (CBSLA.com) — Members of the Carson City Council were expected to hold a special meeting Monday night after the city’s mayor urged lawmakers to declare a condition of local emergency over polluted soil in one local neighborhood.
In March 2011, the state Regional Water Quality Control Board ordered Shell Oil Company to “assess, monitor, and cleanup and abate total petroleum hydrocarbons and other contaminants of concern” in the soil and groundwater in the Carousel community.
Located at the former Kast Property Tank Farm, the tract of homes was built on top of land that Shell had previously owned and used to store barrels of oil, according to city officials.
In the early 1960s, the tanks were drained and abandoned and the property sold to a developer. According to city officials, the area was supposed to be cleaned by Shell Oil before the 278 homes were built.
The report (PDF) found higher-than-normal levels of benzyne, arsenic, lead, and other chemicals in over 200 soil samples of the property.
Residents like Cathy Post who live in the Carousel community north of Lomita Boulevard between Avalon Boulevard and Main Street have reported adverse health affects from living near the site.
“Within two years of living here, I was hit with flesh-eating disease and I remember thinking, ‘What the hell happened to me?’” Post said. “I almost died from it twice.”
The mayor said Shell promised to address the situation four years ago but has done nothing to date.
“They told me, ‘Mayor Dear, we’re going to the right thing’,” he said. “Now we want you, Shell, to live up to that. Do the right thing.”
Mayor Jim Dear is asking the city council to declare a condition of local emergency for the area, which he said will force Shell to the bargaining table.
“Purchase all the homes in the track, purchase the land from the city,” said Mayor Dear. “Clean it properly.”
Erin Brockovich, the long-time crusader against pollution in California, is among those lending support to the cause.
“This is a problem that is plaguing us across the country,” said Brockovich.
Meantime, residents of the Carousel say they are stuck living in the community.
“We can’t leave,” said one resident. “We can’t buy, we can’t sell.”
The soil findings were previously blamed as a major factor in derailing plans for a possible NFL stadium in the northwest corner of Carson.
Shell said the company would wait for the council’s decision.
Sunday, 28 July 2013
Sen. Dianne Feinstein Calls For Bob Filner’s Resignation
(credit: PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP/Getty Images)
SAN DIEGO (AP) — California Sen. Dianne Feinstein is the latest Democrat to call for the resignation of San Diego Mayor Bob Filner over allegations of sexual harassment.
Feinstein said on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday that the embattled mayor is unable to “provide the kind of leadership that San Diegans want.”
Filner’s announcement Friday that he will undergo two weeks of full-time therapy defies leaders of his own party who are demanding he step down.
Seven women identified themselves as targets of Filner’s unwanted advances that include touching.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz, chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, urged him to quit and called his alleged behavior “reprehensible.”
The San Diego County Democratic Party Central Committee voted 34-6 to ask Filner to resign.
The 70-year-old Filner has acknowledged disrespecting and sometimes intimidating women.
(© Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)
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