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Essentially, that's what Chameides has been doing. All of his trash - including recyclables and organic waste like food - is stacked neatly in the basement of his Los Angeles house. He uses a tin box to hold bags of waste paper, and cans of garbage to hold the rest. For organic waste, he put in a worm composter that breaks down leftover food. Beyond that, he didn't create a master plan for his year of no trash. "I didn't really think this through - which is probably for the best," says Chameides. His wife and kids are exempted from...
...address to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council last week, CIA Director Michael Hayden said that al Qaeda's obtaining a nuclear weapon is the CIA's deepest fear. While he was right in the sense that bin Laden potentially could again kill thousands of Americans, it's a worst case terrorist scenario and not the most likely one. The Marriott bombing reminded us once again that it is the common, everyday weapon we should be most afraid of. The 9/11 hijackers took over four airplanes with box cutters...
...measured by personal net earnings, New York did not even make the global top ten last year. Did Mr. Serrano mean to make a more modest U.S.-limited comparison, perhaps? A 2005 Forbes rating by the highest median household income reveals that neither New York nor Los Angeles are among the ten richest cities, even in the United States...
Larry Gross, executive director of the Los Angeles-based Coalition for Economic Survival, says as many as 12,000 units in the city will have subsidy contracts expire by 2013, most within the Section 8 program. "This is a tidal wave of disaster headed our way, unless we take emergency action," says Gross. "Most of these buildings are in areas that have gentrified over the years. [The landlords] see the dollar signs and think they can get more money...
Cities like Los Angeles and New York face the biggest problems because they have more people living under subsidy of some type, including those provided by their states. According to HUD, New York City has 124,000 project-based units, the most in the nation - and the Section 8 deadlines are compounded by the fact that the New York State-sponsored Mitchell-Lama initiative is expiring as well. A total of 40,000 Mitchell-Lama units are vulnerable to buyout under the program, meaning owners can raise the cost of occupied housing to market rate...