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Mailbag: 'Mean-spirited' fire pits column overlooked health hazards
Re "Wu: Fire pit removal illustrates lack of conservatism," March 25: Your credibility is at stake if you have edited the above column, which erroneously portrays the Newport Beach City Council and Corona del Mar residents as being guided by racist or...Tags: Politics, Environmental Issues, Cancer, Environmental Cleanup, Diseases and Illnesses
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Newport mayor encourages being water-wise
The mayors of Newport Beach and Laguna Beach will face off Friday to see whose city is more water-wise in a month-long national online competition. Mayors Nancy Gardner of Newport and Jane Egly of Laguna will kick off the National Mayor's Challenge for...Tags: Environmental Issues, Conservation, Environmental Politics, Ceremonies, Culture
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Mailbag: 'Bridge to nowhere' is wrong priority
Too bad you can't do a survey to determine how the residents who get stuck with the bill feel about this latest City Council decision to build a bridge to nowhere. (Re. "Newport council approves $2-million bridge," Nov. 29). Every day we read about...Tags: Environmental Issues, Learning Disability, USC Trojans, Environmental Politics, Metal and Mineral
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Commentary: Jobs bill fails to address unemployment
Responding to writer Samantha O'Dell (Re. Congress should pass jobs act, Oct. 7): House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's actual quotation was: "The president continues to say, 'Pass my bill in its entirety,' and as I've said from the outset, the all-or-...Tags: Politics, Unemployment, Business, Unemployment Benefits, Productivity
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Commentary: 'RepubLiars' do not want pre-election job growth
We cannot solve our nation's daunting problems with tedious repetition of half-truths, fabrications and discredited policies that held sway during a period of six years when Republicans had full control of both Congressional houses and the White House....Tags: U.S. Postal Service, White House, Federal Aviation Administration, Republican Party, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers
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Community Commentary: There's too much unknown about 'fracking' effects
An essential element of a viable democracy is that its citizens be accurately informed, and that, once informed, they actively participate in the process of decision making. I fully believe that when the people of this nation have the information they...Tags: Louisiana, Natural Gas, Nature, Water Supply, Energy Resources
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Verde Laguna: Be aware of your water usage
As World Water Week winds down, I headed out with my wife for dinner to honor the UNICEF Tap Project as we have for the last three years, only to notice that no restaurants were participating (something I am committed to change next year). So we...Tags: Stockholm (Sweden), Restaurants, Dining and Drinking, Human Interest, World Water Day
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Regional water filtration project in doubt
Editor's note: This corrects the cost of the regional project to filter selenium. City and county officials have hit some setbacks in an ambitious effort to reduce the amount of selenium, a naturally occurring yet potentially toxic element, that...Tags: Politics, Bodies of Water, Natural Resources, Water, Environmental Politics
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Electric car not exactly revving up hopes
COSTA MESA – Most car buyers have anxiety before they make a purchase. Is it the best deal? A set of wheels with good resale value?
In Costa Mesa this weekend, a group of buyers and a new car dealer have a whole new set of concerns.
As they...Tags: Passenger Cars, California, Vehicles, Environmental Politics, Nissan
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Catalina Flyer looking for substitute
NEWPORT BEACH — The Catalina Flyer, a popular 500-passenger catamaran that makes daily trips to Santa Catalina Island from the Balboa Pavilion, may halt operations for a few months to buy and install a new engine that complies with a state...Tags: Business Trips, Catalina, Lawyers, Standards, Dana Point
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City study: Particulate at low levels
NEWPORT BEACH — Planes flying out of John Wayne Airport emit potentially harmful particles, but at levels lower than federal clean-air standards, according to a study released Monday.
Commissioned by the city, the $60,000 study looked at air...Tags: Politics, Environmental Issues, Standards, Federal Aviation Administration, Science and Technology
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Catalina trips still on
NEWPORT BEACH — Though confusion surfaced when Catalina Flyer took its main boat out of service for retrofitting, the company is using a backup catamaran to ferry offseason passengers between Newport Beach and Avalon.
A tour boat built by Geo...Tags: Catalina, Travel, Honolulu, Hawaii, Environmental Politics
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