Friday, September 25, 2009

CM PRESS # 822

WELCOME TO COSTA MESA!
NEWPORTERS TRAVEL TO SKID ROW MESA AND DONATE $20,000 TO SOUP KITCHEN
Then go home to First World Newport Beach. LINK

Funny, the CM PRESS has never heard of any Costa Mesans traveling to Newport Beach to donate to any non-profits.

Maybe Costa Mesa should have a help a child program where the City website will feature urchins from the slums of Costa Mesa who can be helped with donations of just a few cents a day. Then, the urchins can send monthly letters to Newport Beach thanking the nice Americans.

Somehow, being in a slum city, where kind strangers from Newport Beach come to demonstrate their charity, doesn't exactly fill us with civic pride.
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TO THE NORTH AND SOUTH OF US...

NORTH--Santa Ana, aka Chocolate City--Two wounded in gang shooting. One was intended target and the other was hit by a stray bullet. LINK

SOUTH--Newport Beach, aka Vanilla city--No gang shootings again today.
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WHITE GUILT AWARENESS DAY
What, you're white and you don't feel guilty? LINK
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YET ANOTHER CRASH ON VICTORIA STREET'S DEAD MAN'S CURVE

Man crashes into light pole near location on Victoria near Canyon where three people were killed last year. LINK

This is the stretch of road that some in the city want to pave with rubberized asphalt that will allow cars to ride more smoothly and quietly (read, faster) and which the CM PRESS has repeatedly opposed.

The CM PRESS position is that the City should do everything possible to slow down traffic at this location, by whatever means necessary, not make it move faster.

So far, the City is just lucky that no pedestrians have been killed on this dangerous stretch of road where a deceptive curve may cause drivers to misjudge their speed and the centrifugal forces involved.

Drivers are losing control on the curve and are veering off toward the sidewalk, condos, and a tot lot.

One stupid idea that we heard floated is that the City should remove the light poles. The reason this is stupid, is that the light poles may be the only things keeping cars from killing people on the sidewalk, in the condos and in the tot lot. Remove them? No, add more.

In the present accident, the car damaged a gate and wall of a condo or apartment adjacent to the sidewalk and probably would have done much more damage had it not first hit a light pole.

The practical and logical answer to the problem is is to slow down traffic at that location, since the curve probably can't be straightened out.

In fact, all of Victoria west of Placentia has turned into a mini-race track. Something needs to be done there to slow down traffic.
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$ 55 MILLION FOR A TOWER AT NEWPORT HARBOR HIGH SCHOOL AND NOT A PENNY FOR AIR CONDITIONING AT COSTA MESA HIGH SCHOOL?
LINK

The CM PRESS visited Costa Mesa High School last night from 7 pm to 8:30 pm during Back to School Night.

We didn't like what we found.

We spent about ten minutes in each of 5 sweltering, un-air conditioned classrooms with a number of parents. The classrooms were so hot that we were absolutely soaked with sweat.

When we put our muscular forearm on a desk and then lifted it, a clear wet outline of sweat could be seen.

One teacher said the obvious--it was hotter during the day than in these evening hours, and he warned parents to make sure their students were dressed for the heat so they wouldn't suffer heat prostration in the classrooms.

Meanwhile, the NMUSD has spent $ 55 million big ones on restoring a bell tower and adjacent structures at Newport Harbor High School. Maybe the suits at NMUSD have bats in their belfry.
We suggest that Costa Mesa High School change its mascot from a Mustang to a Sweathog.

Then again, maybe all the NMUSD administrators sitting in the fancy and air conditioned building at Bear Street could change places with the students and teachers. Classes at Bear Street and administrators in hot classrooms at CMHS. Makes sense to us.

How long do you think those classrooms would remain un-air conditioned with the switcheroo?
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