CM PRESS # 397

COUNCIL SAYS GARCIA RECYCLING MUST VAMOOSE FROM W. 19th STREET
Link to Daily Pilot story

Is this a sign that the Council is getting serious about fixing W. 19th Street and the rest of the Westside?
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BRAZIL CONSIDERING CHANGING ITS CONSTITUTION TO INCLUDE THE INALIENABLE RIGHT TO THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS

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WASTE IS A PROFITABLE THING TO MIND
Link to State Controller's Office report on the Costa Mesa Sanitary District

Folks, this is one of the special districts that the CM PRESS believes should be taken over by the Costa Mesa City Council. The other one is the Mesa Consolidated Water District.

What you have here is a bloated bureaucracy--a mini-government--that doesn't actually pick up any of our trash, but which just gives out contracts to private companies to pick up our trash.

This function could be handled by a clerk  in City Hall, and she or he would still have time to do other jobs.
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CLASHES BREAK OUT BETWEEN MUBARAK SUPPORTERS AND OPPONENTS
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More than likely the Mubarak supporters are government employees or those who are somehow on Mubarak's payroll.  This looks like a desperate attempt by Mubarak to hold on to power.

There's a gamble here.

If Mubarak can destroy the momentum of his opponents with these counter demonstrators and with his promise to leave power in September anyway, then he can bide his time until September and then say he's changed his mind and continue in power.

But, if his counter demonstrators are too brutal and/or if the opposition sees through this gambit and gets really angry, Mubarak risks ending up hanging from a light pole.
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