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...similar story in California, where the median price for houses dropped 41% in a year, according to the California Association of Realtors. In the Los Angeles area, the outlying suburbs of San Bernardino and Riverside have been hit the hardest due to the high number of homes owned by marginal and subprime borrowers. As a consequence, sales of distressed properties are up significantly. Also in the Los Angeles area, housing sales were up 83% in September over the prior year, with distressed properties notably contributing to the surge. "We're seeing a significant increase in sales activity over the last...
...Yesterday, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger called for swift action to ensure “a message is sent that mistreatment of animals will be not be tolerated by anyone.” San Bernardino District Attorney Michael Ramos has taken an admirably strong response, filing charges against the plant’s manager and an employee implicated in the video. According to Shapiro, this may be the first time ever that slaughterhouse employees have been indicted on felony-level animal cruelty charges—despite the suspension of 12 slaughterhouses for cruelty violations last year alone...
...kind of uprooted and decided to start my life all over again, and now my life might be burning down,” said Holmes, who was evacuated on Monday morning, several hours after showing up for work at the Pali Institute, an education center in the San Bernardino mountains...
...kind of uprooted and decided to start my life all over again, and now my life might be burning down,” said Holmes, who was evacuated on Monday morning, several hours after showing up for work at the Pali Institute, an education center in the San Bernardino mountains. Holmes was hardly the only member of the Harvard community to be touched by the wildfires this week. Assistant Dean of Harvard College Jay Ellison wrote in an e-mailed statement yesterday that resident deans had been asked to contact students from affected areas to offer the College?...
Sidwell, a tony Washington institution that counts Chelsea Clinton among its alumni, obviously has resources others don't, but schools don't need green to be green. Sultana High School in San Bernardino, Calif., used basic conservation techniques, like shutting off lights and equipment when not in use, to cut its energy bill by $100,000--half of which Sultana was allowed to keep for its own use. Like his counterparts at Sidwell, Mark Ziesmer, a Sultana science teacher, has designed lesson plans around conservation. "The students were really motivated," he says. "They want to understand what it means...