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Environmental perspectives from Hawaii
DOWNEY - This column will be coming to you from Hawaii over the next couple of weeks, where my wife and I are combining vacation with a work conference. The island state of Hawaii has a plet... |
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The environment: change or semantics?
It's easy to dismiss efforts to change the status quo because the proposed solution isn't perfect. This is especially true of environmental change, where facile arguments attempt to belittle... |
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Bicycling: a personal perspective
DOWNEY - Next month I will turn sixty-five, officially entering the ranks of the elderly. The term "elderly" carries with it a connotation of feebleness and fragility, just like the widely u... |
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How about a nice bike ride?
DOWNEY - You can toss a coin as to which of the three environmental issues broached here last week best merits further development. Is it the ongoing problem of how to deal with the trash we... |
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Author looks at the future of powerful men
Broadcast journalist Barbara Walters named Gen. David Petraeus her Most Fascinating Person of the Year, but battle-of-the-sexes author Charles D. Martin says the title more rightfully belong... |
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Lynwood fed up with abandoned junk
LYNWOOD - For years, Lynwood residents have been reminded nicely about the city's bulky item pickup policy. All it takes is one call to the trash hauler, make the request, and voila - the bu... |
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Larry McGrew knows how to enjoy the fruits of his labor
DOWNEY - Larry McGrew is either a naturally friendly person or has cultivated a friendly persona. Either way, he is easily one of the most popular members of the Downey Rotary Club, and one ... |
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Surgery not slowing down the mayor
Dear Downey Family, Happy New Year to all! I hope 2013 brings much happiness to you and your loved ones. As many of you know I started the year out with an emergency eye surgery. The opera... |
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Environmental morality: a personal view
DOWNEY - We've been discussing recycling in this column since the Christmas season dropped its usual load of trash and recyclables upon us, with all the gifts and their attendant wrapping an... |
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Manny Castro's winning formula: sound principles and hard work
DOWNEY - A few things early on hardly seemed to work in Manny Castro's favor. His parents had divorced when he was two years old. Then his father passed away when Manny was only seven. He co... |
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Is your life too plastic? More on recycling
DOWNEY - We closed last week's discussion with a website list of recyclables from CalMet Services, which provides trash collection and recycling for the City of Downey. That list is a rudime... |
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New Year's resolutions and recycling
DOWNEY - Christmas has come and gone again, and whether you experienced euphoria or exhaustion, it's time to move on to the promise and/or apprehension of another new year. The New Year i... |
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Laura and Jake are home for the holidays
DOWNEY - Rancho patient Laura Bonsell wheeled her wheelchair out of her hospital room and asked Santa for a simple holiday wish-to be home for Christmas. Jake Velasquez inspired hundreds of... |
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It's Christmastime! Rejoice, reuse and recycle
DOWNEY - With the Christmas holidays comes some of the year's heaviest buying--$147 billion in the ten days before Christmas last year, according to James Covert of the New York Post. Worldw... |
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HEAL cities and bicycle master plan
DOWNEY - One of the beautiful things about a free society and the democratic process is that, whether you win the vote or not, you still have an opportunity to make yourself heard. In that ... |
