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Extra Extra: One Million Trees? Not So Fast.
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- Los Angeles is cleaning up after a wet weekend that drenched the southland and knocked out power to thousands.
- Want asthma? LAUSD is building seven new schools near freeways, despite scientific studies saying such construction could damage the children's lungs.
- Huell Howser is here. That's amazing!
- The city's neighborhood councils could be in for some major changes. Maybe now, you'll actually understand what they are.
- A Los Angeles man suspected of shooting his pregnant girlfriend in front of her two children surrenderedto police today.
- Stemming from an Aug. 6 accident in which she hit a car and walked away, Britney Spears has been charged misdemeanor counts of hit-and-run and driving without a valid license. She could get time.
- Continuing his green (and blue) push, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger addressed a United Nations summit on climate change.
- The chairman of the Cal State Long Beach journalism department on Friday was ousted after criticizing an idea broached by a college dean to eliminate print editions of the campus newspaper. He may have also been a poor leader.
- Foothill Cities Blog is sick and tired of "un-sweet" and "un-new" development in the area. In an attempt to highlight new projects that will be a boon for the area, readers can nominate their pick for the "sweetest new development".
- The Mayor's girlfriend is going back to work. Will she be covering the action at City Hall where the action is hot and the affairs are steamy? Nope.
- And how is the Mayor's One Million Tree initiative going? Eh, not so well.
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