It is becoming difficult to write the perfect stories for my blog and iepolitics.com. Just like the songwriter who is looking for the greatest hit, I would like to write the words as they flow like water.
On the subject of saving money you do not need expensive cleaning solutions for your LCD monitors and televisions. All you need is distilled water and some microfiber cleaning cloths.
When you pay good money for your monitor you want to make sure dirt never gets caked in your investment.
I just received a notice that the city is going to restrict yard sales. Four weekends per year is sort of inflexible when you have people moving or having estate sales. With the economy still not as exceptional, people are still foreclosing from their homes.
I know the city wants to make sure people are not regularly doing garage sales day in and day out or regularly featuring new merchandise or items acquired for the purchase of resale. However there should be a procedure for emergency permits for garage sales for like $30.00. If you are moving to a new residence or you have a family member died where you need to do an estate sale it is not going to offer flexibility with the new policies. I think 1 emergency permit should be allowed per year to prevent the flexibility from being exploited.
The current schedule for yard sale weekends are the following:
August 6,7,8 2010
November 5,6,7 2010
February 4, 5,6 2011
May 6,7,8 2011
Robert wrote a diary on the site he is a regular diarist for at the Calitics blog reflecting about California’s unemployment rate. Here is my response to his diary.
I do not see anything about a vision for helping to create private sector jobs as well. I know firing public sector employees would cause more economic instability, but we need to learn how to create a business climate that would make private sector businesses want to take root in California or expand their existing businesses so we could get tax revenue to help keep those public sector employees employed.
It would be a great day for our state if we read in the news about 84 companies who moved to our state for business or expanded their operations here instead of the reverse.
There can be things we can do to help the economic recovery that does not require messing with overtime or lunch/break or worker protection regulations. Which is one thing I strongly disagree with Senator Dutton.
I do not expect us to spend the money we do not have. I do not want us to become Illinois. Maybe Proposition 1A would of been a good idea, protect our public services, and save money for the next rainy day. I thought we are not allowed to keep budget deficits compared to the federal government.
The cavalier attitudes of the Republican nominees in California and Nevada telling the unemployed let them eat cake is very counter productive. I have more respect for Reid than Sharon Angle even though both parties could of have nominated different people. We need to stand united where the public sector and the private sector should work together in building a stronger economy for our state. It will take shared sacrifice where both sides will have to lose something for the stability of our state.
Another Election Day today and I am starting a tradition of eating at the local restaurant near my home, The Iron Skillet.
Only thing I have done was if people ran unopposed I just simply did not vote for them.
One thing I am hoping for is for Supervisor Ovitt to be forced into a runoff election in November.
Some of my votes changed from my post of recommendations where I chose Abel Maldonado because I recognized we needed someone who can be elected in California’s political climate.
For San Bernardino County judicial office number 11, I went to Lemkau even though he made some mistakes in a very unfortunate tragedy due to his verdict in a child custody case.
I hope for the best today for November.
NEWS FROM BARBARA BOXER, UNITED STATES SENATOR FROM CALIFORNIA
March 05, 2010
Dear Friend:
I am pleased and proud to let you know that I am co-sponsoring new legislation to repeal the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy.
The Military Readiness Enhancement Act of 2010 (S.3065) would repeal the discriminatory “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy and prohibit discrimination of service members on the basis of sexual orientation.
I strongly believe in equal rights for all Americans, including the right to serve in the armed forces. To date, thousands of gay men and women have served in the United States military. Their service should be honored, welcomed, and respected.
I look forward to ending this hurtful policy as soon as possible. We cannot afford to lose the service of dedicated and honorable military personnel, which is happening right now.
Please know that I will continue my efforts to achieve full equality for all Americans both in military and civilian life.
Sincerely,
Barbara Boxer
United States Senator
Note: At least this is one issue I can proudly agree with Senator Boxer.
Assembly member Norma J. Torres
Seeks Nominations for
Women of Achievement
Please nominate a deserving woman!
To celebrate Women’s History Month in March, Assembly member Norma J. Torres is seeking community input for nominations for outstanding women to be recognized as Women of Achievement of the 61st Assembly District.
Nominees must live, volunteer or work in the 61st Assembly District, and not be a public elected official.
Assembly member Torres is also seeking nominations for outstanding female students to be honored as Emerging Young Women Leaders of the 61st Assembly District.
Nominees must live in the 61st Assembly District and be K-12 students, 18 years of age or younger.
If you would like to nominate a woman or female student who is making a difference in our community, please share their story and submit a nomination form.
INFORMATION DETAILS:
The women who are selected will receive special recognition in the district. One woman will receive the title of "Woman of the Year" and be invited to a recognition event to be held at the State Capitol in March.
Click here for a nomination form.
Assemblymember Norma J. Torres
Attn: 2010 Women’s Awards
822 North Euclid, Suite A Ontario, CA 91762
Telephone (909) 984-7741\Fax (909) 984-6695
The 61st Assembly District includes the cities of
Chino, Montclair, Ontario and Pomona.
We are coming through another budget crisis all over again in California and we need to come up with ways to save our state so we do not have to worry about this for awhile.
Ideas big and small let us post them so we can share them to our state legislators so we can make our state work.
1. State Senators should share district offices with state assembly members whenever possible to save taxpayers money. If they are both from the same political party and want to pool their resources we can benefit from expanded staffs working together for the people of their districts. We could save a half million dollars to a million dollars a year.
This thread will be ongoing.
H1N1 and the regular flu are a big concern these days, and with a struggling economy people are coming to work instead of staying home risking the possibility of infecting co-workers, customers and or visitors. We should make public health policies that are fair and reasonable for both the employee and the employer.
For those who are part time and do not get benefits, the employer should cut checks for those who get a flu vaccine up to the fair reasonable retail price at a pharmacy that is local to the business office of the employee. If the employee takes the vaccine and if the chance they get infected with the flu they would need to go to the doctor to get a note and they would have up to 1 week with no penalty non-paid time off.
Democratic Party legislators want to provide paid time off, but that is tough for businesses these days, but at least offering reimbursement for flu vaccines would be the next best option.
This would be a fair and reasonable compromise. Workers would not infect other workers and decrease loss of productivity.
Residents of Ontario are going to get tired of seeing hundred dollar water and trash service bills pretty soon, and we should do our best to alleviate the problem. How about reducing the lawns that lurk in our city. Offer incentives for people to use a non grass based landscaping solution.
I know people do not want to see brown lawns, but in today’s economy and ecology who can afford the water these days.Maybe we can offer incentives to builders who build water friendly buildings both residential and commercial. We can provide free market friendly environmentalism.
Also since Ontario and Chino is having new sections for housing developments, utilize a grey water system so we can use recycled water if developers do insist on having landscaping on their housing. Since we are building new infrastructure we can make a difference for new population residing in our area.
Water is becoming a scarce commodity like oil and we have to conserve our precious resource as best as we can. We can not rely on just water from the north, we have to do our best in maximizing in what we have. If we want to preserve our standard of living we have to manage our resources so we have enough water for generations.
Disney should relent to the hard workers who make their park and their hotels successful. Disney constantly raises their ticket prices and parking rates year after year, but they say they cannot afford to pay for the health care for their workers by shifting the costs and dumping part timers off the health plan. If people knew that their employees were getting quality health care for their high ticket prices that go up ten percent a year maybe they would not feel burned as much. My father and sister bought yearly passes and they rose up $35 dollars per person, Disneyland is becoming unaffordable and Disney just wants to milk the money without thinking of the economic impact of their decisions.
