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Mesa Musings: Junior high at Rea
In September 1956 I enrolled as a junior high student at Everett A. Rea School on Hamilton Street on Costa Mesa's West Side. Though an elementary school today, in '56 it and Horace Ensign Intermediate School in Newport Heights were the only two junior...Tags: Dance, Entertainment, Forestry and Timber, Social Sciences, Forests
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Is Ken Burns a secret propagandist for socialism?
The Big PictureI wasn't planning on DVR-ing Ken Burns' new six-part PBS series "The National Parks: America's Best Idea," which debuts Sunday night because: 1) I don't have 18 hours of room left on my TiVo; 2) judging from the title, I...... -
Mike Roselle and 'Tree Spiker'
Mike Roselle is in his element -- fighting a controversial coal industry practice called mountaintop removal mining in the town of Rock Creek, W. Va. "I had to bail some people out of jail," the 55-year-old rumbles happily by phone from the office of...Tags: Kentucky, Demonstration, Land Resources, Virginia, Mining
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Eco books for kids: Saving the planet, one book at a time
The environmental movement may not yet have changed the world, but it has certainly changed the world of children's books. Hardly a science or nature book for kids fails to sound a warning about habitats, species and resources in danger. Where 10 years...Tags: Theodore Roosevelt, Carl Hiaasen, Science and Technology, Cormac McCarthy, Everglades
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'The Big Burn' by Timothy Egan
The Big Burn
Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire
That Saved America
Timothy Egan
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: 324 pp., $27
During 18 years with the New York Times, many as the paper's Pacific Northwest correspondent, Timothy Egan wrote several nonfiction...Tags: Crimes, William Howard Taft, Society, Public Finance, Arts and Culture
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Yosemite waterfalls
OutpostsGot a thing for water flowing down giant slabs of rock? If so, get thyself ASAP to Yosemite National Park. It's water, water everywhere, and all the celebrity waterfalls are putting on the biggest show of the season: starring Bridalveil,...... -
Effort to designate Ronald Reagan Day in California get bipartisan support. What do you think?
L.A. NOWCalifornia lawmakers appear to be backing an effort to designate Ronald Reagan Day in the state. Ronald Reagan Day would be Feb. 6 -- the birthday of the former actor, California governor and U.S. president. Dedicating a special day of...... -
Picnic honors junior firefighters
Three elementary school students became unofficial members of the Glendale Fire Department at Friday's Junior Fire picnic at Verdugo Park. The Fire Department hosted its annual picnic as a celebration for Glendale Unified fifth-graders who spent the last...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Disasters and Accidents, Lifestyle and Leisure, Fires, Education
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Schwarzenegger signs Ronald Reagan Day into law
L.A. NOWWhat do Cesar Chavez, Harvey Milk and Ronald Reagan have in common? They each get a day named in their honor under California law. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed two bills Monday honoring the conservative icon, one declaring Feb. 6 as...... -
Trout plants for Southern California and Eastern Sierra during the week beginning July 19
OutpostsBarring adverse weather, water or road conditions, the following is a list of Southern California and Eastern Sierra waters, listed by county, that will be stocked with rainbow trout throughout the week of July 19 by the Department of Fish...... -
Book reviews: Going 'off the grid' — what it means and what it takes and why
It's all Thoreau's fault. In the whirring, churning American imagination, that vast and lovely virtual world — fed by books and stories — with territory one can still "light out" for, Thoreau is the guy who showed it was possible to get off...Tags: Los Angeles, Los Angeles Times, Texas, Arts and Culture, Maine
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