08.23.18

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REASONABLE VS NECESSARY
California has a huge
problem with police violence:
Recently, news broke that
California police killed 172
civilians in 2017 alone.
Right now, we have a rare
opportunity to do something
about it. There’s a bill in
California’s Senate that would
help stop unjust police killings
and protect officers in a big
way. But it won’t pass without
a huge showing of public
support.
AB 931 would change the
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CONCERN’
Nori Sushi Wraps and Ding’s
Air Supply’s Graham Russell and
County Grand Jury jabs police
Garden offer delicious treats
Russell Hitchcock still singing
agencies for lack of civilian oversight
off the beaten path
‘silly love songs’
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standard for when police are allowed to use lethal force
from “reasonable” to “necessary.” As uncontroversial as
that sounds, our legislators need to see that killing people
unnecessarily (and thereby putting officers in harm’s way for
no reason) is something the public cares about. Contact your
state legislators and tell them you support the use of lethal
force only when it is necessary.
Help save civilian and police lives. You can make a
difference. Contact your California legislators and ask them to
vote yes on AB 931.
~ NETTIE V. PARKER
PASADENA
MIXED SIGNALS
Confused? Does President Trump believe our intelligence
community that the Russians “meddled” in our 2016 election
or not?
It’s kind of like Melania’s jacket when she was sent to
immigrant centers to do “damage control” after the cruel
separation of children from their asylum-seeking parents: in
transit, a message of “who cares” to the base but a show of
concern at the site, having it both ways.
BEST
of Pasadena
VOTING CONTINUES! CONTINUES!
WAYS TO SUPPORT OUR BUZZIEST POLLINATORS AND
PROTECT THREATENED NATIVE BEE HABITAT
BY BLISS BOWEN
And now, to Putin’s face,
a signal he might continue
to allow hacking and
manufacturing bots by the
hundred thousands, sowing
dissension on our social
media, then a “misspoke”
denial to damp down the
outcry from both domestic
allies and adversaries.
After all, there’s another
election this November.
Has the president taken a
single action to counteract
the clear threat to our
cybersecurity uncovered by
our intelligence people?
~ MARGARET MORRIS
VIA EMAIL
DIET CHANGE NEEDED
With scorching heat and
raging wildfires in the West
and torrential downpours
and massive flooding in
the East, global warming is
not just about a gentle sea
rise anymore. These tragic
consequences of dumping
greenhouse gases into our
atmosphere call for drastic
remedies.
For starters, we should
rejoin the Paris Climate
Accords and actually become
a world leader in reducing
greenhouse gas emissions.
One of the most effective
ways is by changing our diet.
Yes, that. Last fall Oxford
University’s prestigious Food
Climate Research Network
concluded that solving the
global warming catastrophe
requires a massive shift
to a plant-based diet. A
2010 United Nations report
blamed animal agriculture
for 19 percent of greenhouse
gas emissions, 70 percent
of freshwater use, and 38
percent of land use.
Carbon dioxide is emitted
by burning forests to create
animal pastures and by
transporting animals.
The more damaging
methane and nitrous oxide
are released from digestive
tracts of cattle and from
animal waste cesspools,
respectively.
In an environmentally
sustainable world, we must
replace meat and dairy
products in our diet by
vegetables, fruits and grains,
just as we replace fossil fuels
by wind, solar and other
pollution-free energy sources.
Let’s start with our next
supermarket visit.
~ PATRICK LAWSON
PASADENA
TIME HAS COME
It is sometimes said that
the wealthy of the Earth,
whose own carelessness
has brought about global
warming, must necessarily
be afflicted themselves by its
effects before they consent
to reduce it.
To many of us in Southern
California, that time has
come. When every month is
hotter than its namesake of
last year; when our gardens,
farms and orchards wilt, and
we cannot spare the water
to revive them; when crops
run short in the market;
when we can scarcely take
a dog for a walk for fear of
overheating it (and ourselves);
when we cannot go hiking,
take a bicycle or even “beat
the heat” at the beach or the
swimming pool for fear of
sunstroke while in route,
the time has indeed come
to draw down pollution
from the atmosphere, install
solar panels on every roof
and replace all internalcombustion
engines with
electric motors.
~ SIDDHARTH MEHROTRA
VIA EMAIL
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