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• Commented on Do Red Light Cameras Make Intersections More Dangerous?
  "...crashes caused by people stopping earlier than expected to avoid running a red light"? Wouldn't that be "crashes caused by tailgaters who can't stop in time when the car ahead of them makes a legal stop at a traffic signal"?...
• Commented on Extra, Extra
  So water mains are bursting left and right around the city causing damage and distress but the DWP is expected to get pay raises within the next few years? How does THAT work? What, you think an aging water-supply infrastructure...
• Commented on Julian Casablancas Moves to Silver Lake
  How nice to see a New Yorker come to LA and really get LA, instead of just whining about how it's not New York. Welcome to LA, Mr. Casablancas. Good to have you here....
• Commented on City Councilman is Violating the Water Conservation Law on Purpose
  "Low Desert"? Sorry, no. That's even more wrong. I grew up in Phoenix, surrounded by the Sonoran Desert. That's Low Desert. That would be Zone 13 in your Sunset Western Garden Book, for those who don't speak Köppen. Phoenix. Yuma....
• Commented on City Councilman is Violating the Water Conservation Law on Purpose
  Well, sorry, but they're wrong. The LA Times repeats this factoid all the time. They're wrong, too. Like I said: it's a frequently repeated myth. But it's still a myth. In the waning years of the 19th Century, the entire...