Morning Scoop: nursing board firings, reform or be reformed, playing at the heartstrings at a VA Medical Center
Good morning from the City Desk. A sampler of California stories from today's Los Angeles Times:
Reform or be reformed. That's what a variety of groups around the state are telling lawmakers in Sacramento. They're suggesting a variety of paths to fix government dysfunction -- including a constitutional convention.
Pueblo del Rio is one of Los Angeles' oldest and poorest pubic housing developments. Residents have been feeling safer there lately, but life there is not easy.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger replaced most members of the state Board of Registered Nurses on Monday, citing the unacceptable amount of time it takes to discipline nurses accused of egregious misconduct.
Sheriff's deputies who killed a man in Athens apparently mistook a cellphone for a gun.
Columnist Hector Tobar goes to a unity event in Duarte and sees great hope in the diverse community, recently thrust into the public eye because of a hate crime.
The Los Angeles Unified School District has won the right to fire a special education teacher -- seven years after he was removed from the classroom because of alleged sexual harassment.
Some gay-rights groups say they think 2010 is too soon to launch another ballot-box effort to legalize same-sex marriage in California.
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa says the city -- and the city alone -- should pay the $1.4-million tab for police protection, traffic control and other city services surrounding the Michael Jackson memorial.
An earnest 17-year-old makes the rounds at a VA Medical Center, playing the violin to patients, some of whom do not respond in any way. He says his hope is that he can free them, at least briefly, from the prisons of their failing bodies and minds.
Today is the special election for Hilda Solis' vacant seat in Congress. We'll bring you other news as we get it.
-- Nita Lelyveld
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There is money for MJ and not for schools or city services???? And people think that it is the Unions that are at fault for the cities and school district budget!!!
We need to change our priorities!!
Posted by: Jose Lara | July 14, 2009 at 10:40 AM