Air Quality Advisory 8-4-08

 

For Immediate Release:                                                       

August 4, 2008

 

AIR QUALITY ADVISORY:

 Air quality is unhealthy for sensitive individuals in West and East San Fernando Valley, West and East San Gabriel Valley, Pomona/Walnut Valley, Santa Clarita Valley, and the San Gabriel Mountains.

 

LOS ANGELES – According to the South Coast Air Quality Management District, today’s air quality is unhealthy for sensitive individuals in the following areas: West and East San Fernando Valley, West and East San Gabriel Valley, Pomona/Walnut Valley, Santa Clarita Valley, and the San Gabriel Mountains.

 

Los Angeles County Health Officer and Public Health Director, Jonathan E. Fielding, MD, MPH, advises people living or working in these areas with heart disease, asthma or other respiratory disease to minimize outdoor activities. Schools or summer camps that are in session today that have children with sensitive conditions, including heart disease, asthma, other chronic respiratory diseases, should not participate in PE or outdoor physical activity and should stay indoors as much as possible.

 

The Department of Public Health is committed to protecting and improving the health of the nearly 10 million residents of Los Angeles County. Through a variety of programs, community partnerships and services, Public Health oversees environmental health, disease control, and community and family health. Public Health comprises more than 4,000 employees and an annual budget exceeding $750 million. To learn more about Public Health and the work we do, please visit http://www.publichealth.lacounty.gov.

 

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Open Thread for Monday: #8 Liberal Blog in California Posted: 04 Aug 2008 10:14 AM CDT It had to happen sometime. Mayor Sam is now a liberal blog. Tell that to the folks who think we're a "right ractist blog." (Maybe this now qualifies us for government funding.) California's Most Influential Political blogs Liberal Influence Measures the impact that left-leaning blogs have on the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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Walter Moore and the Electoral Math of City Council Victories Posted: 03 Aug 2008 03:46 PM CDT Ron Kaye video of Walter Moore speaking at the SLAP! Meeting in Glassell Park on Saturday.  If the citizens of LA are determined enough to make a change in our government and elect someone other than Ed Reyes, Richard Alarcón, Jan Perry, Bill Rosendahl, Eric Garcetti, or Janice Hahn to the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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Video of My Talk at Ron Kaye's Town Hall Meeting

Video of My Talk at Ron Kaye's Town Hall Meeting By Walter Moore, Candidate for Mayor of Los Angeles, WalterMooreForMayor.com Hey, if you've got seven minutes and 44 seconds, have I got a video for you: Town Hall Video.

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Why You Should Run For L.A.'s City Council -- And How You Can Win

Why You Should Run For L.A.'s City Council -- And How You Can Win By Walter Moore, Candidate for Mayor of Los Angeles, WalterMooreForMayor.com August 2, 2008 You say you want a revolution? Me, too. That's why I'm running for Mayor of L.A. I could do a lot of good for our city as its Mayor. But I could do even more if seven of you reading this newsletter get elected to the odd-numbered City Council District seats that are up for grabs in the March 9, 2009 election -- the same election as the Mayor's race. Running for City Council may seem like a daunting task to you. But look at the numbers before you throw in the towel. I think you'll be shocked by how few votes you would need to unseat the people who, along with Villaraigosa, are ruining our city. If the same number of voters show up next time as showed up last time, here is how few votes you would need to defeat the incumbents in the odd-numbered districts without a runoff: District 1: Reyes - 7,136 District 3: Zine - 16,738 District 5: Weiss - 19,827 (he's running for City Attorney, by the way, so you don't even have to run against him) District 7: Alarcon - 4,771 District 9: Perry - 7,385 District 11: Rosendahl - 20,481 District 13: Garcetti - 7,350 (he ran unopposed) Did you realize how few votes it takes to become one of the 16 people running America's second-largest city? Surprising, isn't it? I mean, the City has four million inhabitants -- many of them here legally -- and an annual budget of $7 billion, and the "President" of the City Council could have been someone else with just 7,350 votes. What does it mean? It means the thing that is killing our city -- voter apathy -- is the same thing that can save it. We don't have to convince millions of people to vote. We need only get the same 239,513 people who voted "no" on Prop S to show up on March 3, 2009. So how about it? How about YOU becoming one of the "Magnificent Seven" who, along with me as Mayor, will turn this city around? What's the worst that could happen? We could lose. But even if we lose, we'll know we did everything we could to save America's second-biggest city. And if you don't run, well, just remember: "For all the sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: 'It might have been.'"

Patt Morrison Mon, 8/4

PATT MORRISON SCHEDULE

Monday, August 4, 2008

1-3 p.m.

 

 

1:00 – 2:00

OPEN

 

 

 

[NPR NEWS]

 

 

2:00 – 2:30

The Long, Strange, Tragic Anthrax Investigation

In the days after September 11, 2001, the anthrax-stuffed envelopes turning up at Senator’s offices and media outlets felt like the second wave of a massive terrorist attack.  The public hysteria over mysterious white powder eventually died down and the investigation into who was responsible for killing five people with military-grade anthrax seemed to go nowhere for seven years.  One government scientist was accused and eventually exonerated while another scientist at the Fort Detrick biodefense lab fell under suspicion.  That researcher, Bruce Ivins, committed suicide this week right as a murder indictment was about to be handed down.  We’ll retrace the steps of one of the most frightening and convoluted terrorist events in American history, and ask whether we’ve learned anything to protect ourselves from the next biological attack.

 

Guests:

Norman Covert, retired director of public affairs at Fort Detrick in Maryland

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• Covert retired in 1999, but served on the Animal Care & Use Committee with Dr. Bruce Ivins until 2004.  He worked professionally with Dr. Ivins for 14 years and knew him pretty well.

 

 

Col. Randy Larsen, director of the Institute for Homeland Security and the national security advisor to the Center for Biosecurity at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

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• Larsen was one of the first witnesses to testify before the 9-11 Commission and since 9/11 has served as an expert witness to various Senate and House committees on homeland security, terrorism and bio-terrorism affairs.
• Larsen designed and led the “Dark Winter” bioterrorism simulation war game in 2001, and has since assisted defense officials in various follow up simulations.
• Of his many books, his latest is “OUR OWN WORST ENEMY:  Asking the Right Questions about Security to Protect You, Your Family & America” that focused on the threat of a chemical or biological attack against the U.S.

 

 

 

 

2:30 – 3:00

Flirting with Disaster

Chernobyl, Katrina, Challenger, Columbia and Enron....were these catastrophes unavoidable? In "Flirting With Disaster," author Marc Gerstein looks at the series of preventable mistakes that created these tragedies.  He explains how intelligent, high-powered people--scientists, doctors, engineers, politicians--get it so wrong when it comes to reading the warnings signs and preventing disasters.  Patt sits down with the author and finds out why accidents are so rarely accidental--and what steps can be taken to prevent them from happening at all.

 

Guests:

Marc Gerstein (steen), author of Flirting with Disaster

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"Town Hall" Meeting Saturday at 2:00 p.m.

"Town Hall" Meeting Saturday at 2:00 p.m. By Walter Moore, Candidate for Mayor of Los Angeles, WalterMooreForMayor.com August 1, 2008 Hey, if you don't have plans for tomorrow afternoon, Ron Kaye, former editor of the Daily News, is holding a "Town Hall" meeting starting at 2:00 p.m. at the Glassell Park Community/Senior Center, 3750 N. Verdugo Road, in Glassell Park. Pitchforks and torches are optional, but I think they'd lend a nice touch to the ambience. I'll be there, and I'll bring bumper stickers and Jamiel's Law petitions. And contribution forms -- I almost forgot contribution forms! A word of caution about finding the place: Ron says "the Gassell Park Community/Senior center is located in back of a Public Storage facility at Glassell Park, 3750 N. Verdugo Road, just off the Glendale (2) Freeway." I hope to see you there.