Heat and other signs of August
Belo Blog includes a severe heat warning here. Temperatures reached 108 in Riverside yesterday and that combined with high humidity caused by seasonal monsoon conditions have created potentially dangerous conditions especially for the elderly and those working outdoors.
Temperatures are expected to stay above the century mark until after Labor Day, with a chance for thunderstorms coming into the region after the holiday. This weather has created a high demand for electricity statewide which led to a stage 1 alert to conserve use of it during peak hours.
Also on the Press Enterprise blog, Mayor Ron Loveridge sent a message of support for Riverside's sister city in India, which is Hyderabad, located in the state of Andhra Pradesh. This city was struck by terrorist bombs which killed 43 people and injured over 100.
(excerpt)
"The attacks by terrorists can never be justified and deserve the condemnation of all," Loveridge wrote in the letter to Chief Minister Y.S. Rajashekara Reddy. "No message can bring solace to those who lost their loved ones or were injured in the attack, but our thoughts are with them, and with all of you, in this dark hour."
Riverside has six sister cities and is part of the oldest ongoing sister relationship in history, which is its relationship with Sendai, Japan.
As noted in the prior posting, the DHL freight planes spent most of the early morning hours taking off from March Air Force Reserve Base at 15 minute intervals, according to people who live south of Central in Riverside. If those noisy planes are truly MD-11 and MD-12 aircraft as has been claimed, then DHL needs to send those planes back for a refund.
People living as far off the alleged flight path as the Arlington Green Belt area and the Eastside could also hear the planes at around 3 am every 15 minutes.
Here's some contact information for those on the March Joint Powers Authority from its Web site which is here if you feel like contacting them about the latest flight path used by DHL.
March Joint Powers Authority
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 7480, Moreno Valley, California 92552, USA
Delivery Address: 3430 Bundy Avenue, Suite 107, Bldg #3408 Riverside, CA, 92518, USA
Phone: (951) 656-7000
Fax: (951) 653-5558
Email: Invest@MarchJPA.com
The members of the March Joint Powers Commission are here. There is contact information available to reach them at their appropriate city or county government Web sites. If they get enough complaints, perhaps they will move the flightpath again and this time, pull the next proposed path out of a hat.
You've got to love election years. SmartPark is finally being renovated, less than three months before November's election. Not quite down to the wire, but Ward One candidate, Mike Gardner is correct when he said that the problems should have been addressed and solutions implemented when the program was first introduced months ago.
Councilman Dom Betro, Gardner's opponent, launched a series of changes to "unshackle" downtown parking as he called it. It sounds similar to what's been done with the original vote to introduce a multi tier of electricity rate increases last year, which was to toss it out during the current election cycle only this case changes are to be implemented that should have been evaluated before it was implemented full-time. The city council finally got the message that small business owners and their customers have been telling them for months. Perhaps the changes in the parking program will allow the businesses downtown to be unshackled.
What a difference several months makes on the issue of parking downtown.
The heads of the Greater Chamber of Commerce support metered parking, but many of the small business owners located downtown have appeared at city council meetings and other forums, saying that their sales earnings took a beating after the program was implemented. One more sign of the disconnect that is a result of the marriage between the chamber and City Hall even in situations where small business owners feel disenfranchised due to decisions made by elected officials.
Salvador Santana, publisher of The Truth collected hundreds of signatures from these business owners who were protesting against SmartPark. He took the petitions to city council several times but the city council still insisted it was right about SmartPark and all the people complaining about it downtown were party poopers and evil city employees taking advantage of all the free parking, which of course they did because their employers did not provide adequate parking facilities for them.
Those attending the afternoon session of the latest city council meeting related how the cart which holds The Truth, which is published by Santana was moved to the street by a security guard at City Hall and then later searched by Officer Putman, who was assigned to provide security at City Hall during the meeting. Putman allegedly said he was looking for a bomb while conducting the search. It's not clear at this point why Santana was singled out for this treatment given that the police officers assigned to City Hall do not routinely search people who come to city council meetings.
When it comes to getting what you think the city needs, push for what you want while you still can. There is still about 35 or so shopping days before the election polls open on the first Tuesday in November, all sales are final. This leaves plenty of opportunity to push for more changes from those on the dais who are up this year. And after the elections are decided this year, there are the mayor elections next year, the county supervisor races and then the year after that, more city council races!
Coming up in a future posting will be the tri-year election schedule so shoppers, meaning city residents can know which elected officials will be more responsive to promoting changes to dysfunctional programs and projects and implementing previously ignored programs and projects in any given year during this cycle. If you want a special project introduced, a new policy created or an old council vote reversed, you will be able to check the handy list to check when will be the best dates within the next three years to try and do so.
While the sudden rash of good well, generosity and reversal of fortunes shown by the city's elected officials is well, heart warming, you'd still better strike while the iron is hot.
Politicians up for election in the tri-year election cycle include the following.
2007:
Dom Betro
Art Gage
Steve Adams
2008:
Frank Schiavone
Ron Loveridge, perhaps.
Ed Adkison, anything is possible.
Betro, Gage are still fighting to win their seats back so their mayoral ambitions and their expected clash for the highest paid elected position on the dais may be revisited down the road.
2009:
Andrew Melendrez will probably run for a second term.
Schiavone, most likely if the county gig doesn't work out.
Nancy Hart may or may not run again.
Here's a suggestion though. When city residents including ward constituents have concerns about issues, including new projects, proposed changes to old places or the introduction of loud aircraft in their neighborhood's air space, the best thing to do is to listen to them. Take notes, talk with them and work on a solution, instead of spending months telling people who are concerned that they are being over dramatic, overstating the problem, being divisive or are gadflies. Do these things in other years besides those where elections take place.
Either that or treat every year like an election year.
Will Riverside County Superior Court Judge Robert Spitzer be removed from the bench? The Commission on Judicial Conduct's officer has recommended this action but the final decision still lies ahead, according to the Press Enterprise.
A Los Angeles Times article states that it is official. Riverside County Sheriff Bob Doyle is going to Sacramento to work with the State Parole Board. Who is set to replace him remains to be seen. Voting is by fax, just kidding.
A toxic plume of perchlorate is heading towards Rialto, according to this article in the Press Enterprise.
Here's a message from Save-Riverside which reported that its MySpace site had been hacked into and deleted and there have been other attempts to hack into that organization's sites. Apparently someone or some people didn't like what was on the sites and didn't want other people to access those sites so they could make up their minds what to think about what they were reading.
Temperatures are expected to stay above the century mark until after Labor Day, with a chance for thunderstorms coming into the region after the holiday. This weather has created a high demand for electricity statewide which led to a stage 1 alert to conserve use of it during peak hours.
Also on the Press Enterprise blog, Mayor Ron Loveridge sent a message of support for Riverside's sister city in India, which is Hyderabad, located in the state of Andhra Pradesh. This city was struck by terrorist bombs which killed 43 people and injured over 100.
(excerpt)
"The attacks by terrorists can never be justified and deserve the condemnation of all," Loveridge wrote in the letter to Chief Minister Y.S. Rajashekara Reddy. "No message can bring solace to those who lost their loved ones or were injured in the attack, but our thoughts are with them, and with all of you, in this dark hour."
Riverside has six sister cities and is part of the oldest ongoing sister relationship in history, which is its relationship with Sendai, Japan.
As noted in the prior posting, the DHL freight planes spent most of the early morning hours taking off from March Air Force Reserve Base at 15 minute intervals, according to people who live south of Central in Riverside. If those noisy planes are truly MD-11 and MD-12 aircraft as has been claimed, then DHL needs to send those planes back for a refund.
People living as far off the alleged flight path as the Arlington Green Belt area and the Eastside could also hear the planes at around 3 am every 15 minutes.
Here's some contact information for those on the March Joint Powers Authority from its Web site which is here if you feel like contacting them about the latest flight path used by DHL.
March Joint Powers Authority
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 7480, Moreno Valley, California 92552, USA
Delivery Address: 3430 Bundy Avenue, Suite 107, Bldg #3408 Riverside, CA, 92518, USA
Phone: (951) 656-7000
Fax: (951) 653-5558
Email: Invest@MarchJPA.com
The members of the March Joint Powers Commission are here. There is contact information available to reach them at their appropriate city or county government Web sites. If they get enough complaints, perhaps they will move the flightpath again and this time, pull the next proposed path out of a hat.
You've got to love election years. SmartPark is finally being renovated, less than three months before November's election. Not quite down to the wire, but Ward One candidate, Mike Gardner is correct when he said that the problems should have been addressed and solutions implemented when the program was first introduced months ago.
Councilman Dom Betro, Gardner's opponent, launched a series of changes to "unshackle" downtown parking as he called it. It sounds similar to what's been done with the original vote to introduce a multi tier of electricity rate increases last year, which was to toss it out during the current election cycle only this case changes are to be implemented that should have been evaluated before it was implemented full-time. The city council finally got the message that small business owners and their customers have been telling them for months. Perhaps the changes in the parking program will allow the businesses downtown to be unshackled.
What a difference several months makes on the issue of parking downtown.
The heads of the Greater Chamber of Commerce support metered parking, but many of the small business owners located downtown have appeared at city council meetings and other forums, saying that their sales earnings took a beating after the program was implemented. One more sign of the disconnect that is a result of the marriage between the chamber and City Hall even in situations where small business owners feel disenfranchised due to decisions made by elected officials.
Salvador Santana, publisher of The Truth collected hundreds of signatures from these business owners who were protesting against SmartPark. He took the petitions to city council several times but the city council still insisted it was right about SmartPark and all the people complaining about it downtown were party poopers and evil city employees taking advantage of all the free parking, which of course they did because their employers did not provide adequate parking facilities for them.
Those attending the afternoon session of the latest city council meeting related how the cart which holds The Truth, which is published by Santana was moved to the street by a security guard at City Hall and then later searched by Officer Putman, who was assigned to provide security at City Hall during the meeting. Putman allegedly said he was looking for a bomb while conducting the search. It's not clear at this point why Santana was singled out for this treatment given that the police officers assigned to City Hall do not routinely search people who come to city council meetings.
When it comes to getting what you think the city needs, push for what you want while you still can. There is still about 35 or so shopping days before the election polls open on the first Tuesday in November, all sales are final. This leaves plenty of opportunity to push for more changes from those on the dais who are up this year. And after the elections are decided this year, there are the mayor elections next year, the county supervisor races and then the year after that, more city council races!
Coming up in a future posting will be the tri-year election schedule so shoppers, meaning city residents can know which elected officials will be more responsive to promoting changes to dysfunctional programs and projects and implementing previously ignored programs and projects in any given year during this cycle. If you want a special project introduced, a new policy created or an old council vote reversed, you will be able to check the handy list to check when will be the best dates within the next three years to try and do so.
While the sudden rash of good well, generosity and reversal of fortunes shown by the city's elected officials is well, heart warming, you'd still better strike while the iron is hot.
Politicians up for election in the tri-year election cycle include the following.
2007:
Dom Betro
Art Gage
Steve Adams
2008:
Frank Schiavone
Ron Loveridge, perhaps.
Ed Adkison, anything is possible.
Betro, Gage are still fighting to win their seats back so their mayoral ambitions and their expected clash for the highest paid elected position on the dais may be revisited down the road.
2009:
Andrew Melendrez will probably run for a second term.
Schiavone, most likely if the county gig doesn't work out.
Nancy Hart may or may not run again.
Here's a suggestion though. When city residents including ward constituents have concerns about issues, including new projects, proposed changes to old places or the introduction of loud aircraft in their neighborhood's air space, the best thing to do is to listen to them. Take notes, talk with them and work on a solution, instead of spending months telling people who are concerned that they are being over dramatic, overstating the problem, being divisive or are gadflies. Do these things in other years besides those where elections take place.
Either that or treat every year like an election year.
Will Riverside County Superior Court Judge Robert Spitzer be removed from the bench? The Commission on Judicial Conduct's officer has recommended this action but the final decision still lies ahead, according to the Press Enterprise.
A Los Angeles Times article states that it is official. Riverside County Sheriff Bob Doyle is going to Sacramento to work with the State Parole Board. Who is set to replace him remains to be seen. Voting is by fax, just kidding.
A toxic plume of perchlorate is heading towards Rialto, according to this article in the Press Enterprise.
Here's a message from Save-Riverside which reported that its MySpace site had been hacked into and deleted and there have been other attempts to hack into that organization's sites. Apparently someone or some people didn't like what was on the sites and didn't want other people to access those sites so they could make up their minds what to think about what they were reading.
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