Good morning -- here's what's happening 9.24.08
Looks like our elected officials won't send us to the poorhouse quite as fast as proponents of that massive financial bailout would like. Privatizing profit and socializing debt -- is that the new American way?
L.A. officials aren't all that thrilled with the bailout plan either.
So the budget's signed and the money's flowing, but California faces a long, hard slog back to economic good times. I mean, here's what's passing for good news these days: The housing market is predicted to hit bottom in 2009. Feel better?
Some good is coming from the tragic Metrolink crash earlier this month: Congress has finally agreed to a rail safety reform bill, which had been stalled for some time. (The House votes today, then the bill goes to the Senate.) So when will we see the "positive train control" systems that could have headed off the crash? Not until 2015 -- another seven years.
It's back -- the question of whether minors need parental consent to get an abortion. You'll see it as Proposition 4 on the November ballot.
A hit-and-run driver who blew through a red light and killed a 19-year-old woman in Northridge has been arrested.
Little Tokyo in L.A. finally gets its gym.
The NFL ♥ Tustin High School -- six alums are among the 1,693 players on opening weekend rosters.
Film noir's naughty ladies light up the screen at UCLA's series, "Cool Drinks of Water: Columbia's Noir Girls of the '40s and '50s", which starts this Friday.
--Veronique de Turenne
Photos: Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times; UCLA Film Archive
