Love, Death, Poverty, and Beauty: Urban Trees II
Due to unpopular demand, the following is offered as an extension of the first installment of "Love, Death, Poverty, and Beauty: Urban Trees" http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/earth-fire-and-water/2013/jan/30/love-death-poverty-and-beauty-urban-trees/?c=138460 Palm "trees" can be a preferable alternative to many other true trees for planting along streets, …
wage labotomy
this story has ended. I got a job. The gang won't make it to Mary and her gang in time to catch Bigfoot and get the secret serum, which was song lyrics. The band won't play the first last song …
Baja & Border News Translations: Miracle baby to be named next week; Los Cabos to host Iron Man event; 600 whale calves born in Baja California Sud
Miracle baby to be named next week (Penisular Digital, 2/9/13) San José de el Cabo, BC Sur - Jorge Aaron Montano Dominguez, Counsel for the Defense of Minors and the Family System Municipal DIF Los Cabos, announced that next week …
Baja & Border News Translations: 40,000 join Popular Insurance in BC; 3,000 girls at risk for Human Papillomavirus; 2,000 notified they are living in danger zone; Colonists complain about heavy truck traffic
40,000 join Popular Insurance in BC (El Sol de Tijuana, 2/8/13) Tijuana, BC - A total of 40,298 people joined or reafiliated with Seguro Popular in January of this year in Baja California, said Mirna Rincon Vargas, Director General of …
Baja & Border News Translations: Theft of cables generates millions in losses; Tijuana Fire Department offers Open Water Lifeguard Certification; Children who ran-away are located; Second "Gasolinazo" of 2013 will come Saturday
Theft of cables generates millions in losses (EL UNIVERSAL, 2/8/13) ECATEPEC –The theft of cables generates millions in losses to the Metropolitan Municipalities Industry, said Francisco Sánchez Escobar, Regional Coordinator of the Industrial Union of the State of Mexico (Unidem). …
Baja & Border News Translations: LGBT demand more respect; Cable thief dies by electrocution; 2013 National Olympiad “Yo soy Baja”
LGBT demand more respect (EL VIGIA, 2/8/13 by Benjamin Pacheco) Ensenada, BC - Representatives of the LGBT community in Ensenada sought an apology from a regional newspaper for publishing a carton that alluding to an Alliance between the National Action …
Power the Paradigm San Diegans!
Sending one email to both the CPUC & CEC and Gov. Brown is a way for San Diegans to halt the negative impacts of three more dirty-gas fired (fossil fuel) power plants in our county. Details further below. A Feb …
Baja & Border News Translations: Tijuana Auditorium Languishes; No detainees in Acapulco-Spanish rape case; Efforts made to formalize workers; 46,000 children will go to Museo El Trompo for free
Tijuana Auditorium Languishes (Uniradio Informa, 2/7/13 by Carlos Linaldi) TIJUANA, BC – Now languishing, the Tijuana Municipal Auditorium’s original gym area is dismantled due to leaks that have raged, the floor sank in several sections, cracks threaten walls and floors, …
thoughts on mental illness and corporate control
I Just thought id drop a line expressing my current feelings about big time control from coporations and how they limit the lively hood of the mently ill population. To disturbed scizoprenic bipolar or even just plain crazy! These are …
Baja & Border News Translations: BC State debt doubles in 5 years; Broken dreams of Salvadorans deported from U.S.; Range of alternative medical options offered
BC State debt doubles in 5 years (El Sol de Tijuana, 2/6/13 by Adam Mondragon) Tijuana, BC - Baja California’s public debt has doubled during the current administration of Governor Jose Guadalupe Osuna Millan, going from 6.4 billion pesos ($507 …
Where's that Hoo coming from?
Weekend Snow Alert!!
Rosarito Blues: Cantamar
[Translated by Fulano from an Op-Ed piece in Rosarito en la Noticia.com] by Gerardo Díaz Valles On the "San Lunes¹" long weekend for the Mexican Constitution Day celebration, three of our expensive congressional deputies: Nancy Sánchez, Rossana Soto and Laurencio …
Baja & Border News Translations: Program to improve BC image strengthened; Remittances being sent from United States are growing; Cancer is an undesirable and feared condition
Program to improve BC image strengthened (La Voz de la Frontera, 2/3/13 by Alejandro Domínguez) Mexicali, BC - Members of the Image Committee of Baja California agreed to strengthen actions aimed at improving the image and perception of the Organization, …
Doing Time in the Tank
"Cover!," the guard yelled. Everyone fell to the ground and covered their heads. I thought it was some kind of drill and started to do the same but the probation officer who issued the command touched my arm and said," …
Baja & Border News Translations: Women more likely to suffer from Alzheimer's; Vitamin thief caught; Infant dies in fire
Women more likely to suffer from Alzheimer's (El Mexicano, 2/4/13 by Hilario Ochoa Movis) TIJUANA, BC - Persons who are older than 70 have a 15% chance of developing dementia disease and the possibility increases to 50% at age 80 …
Baja & Border News Translations: Use of Condoms Recommended; Reforms Needed to Protect Women; A Violent January
Use of Condoms Recommended (Tijuana Press, 2/1/13) Tijuana, BC - In order to prevent the spread of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI), the Chief of Epidemiology of the Tijuana General Hospital, Dr. Samuel Navarro Alvarez, urges the use condoms during each …
Baja & Border News Translations: 3 Arrested for Providing Alcohol to Minor; Confidence in Municipal Police Increases; Alleged Rapist Captured
3 Arrested for Providing Alcohol to Minor (La Cronica, 2/4/13 by Gina Rodríguez) SAN LUIS RÍO COLORADO, Sonora - Two men and a woman were arrested for the corruption of a minor after providing alcohol to a girl less than …
A Fairy Tale for the Fortunate
Once upon a time in The Land of Pink-tiled Roofs, the landed gentry of the Village- by-the-Seawall were unhappy. The carriage lanes running through their village had become cluttered with oversized Leisure Wagons. They were often left standing overnight, taking …
American citizen kidnapped in Rosarito escapes by jumping from car
[While the following story was widely reported in many Baja California news sources, so far, after six days, no American periodical has reported this story.] Five men participated in the kidnapping of an American citizen and a Mexican citizen in …