From Roger Butow, Laguna Beach's world renowned fighter of ca-ca (in all its forms):Where's the Relief Beef?Let's see, Congress is amenable to a $400 per year tax decrease for individual working slobs like me, about $1.10 per day. Meanwhile, this State is going to increase certain taxes so I'll be forced to pay more each day to cover budget deficits. Undoubtedly canceling each other out (probably worse here in California), where is the promised relief for those average American household income
Perhaps environmentally sensitive locals should withhold sending
support to the Sierra Club, the Surfrider Foundation and the Natural
Resources Defense Council and instead cut checks to the U.S. Department
of Commerce's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. It was, after all, the NOAA that dealt what many believe to be the final death blow
to extension of the 241 Foothill South toll road through a state park
and perilously close to Trestles. Now the NOAA is sticking up for local
steel
The South Orange County Wastewater Authority, which collects, treats, reuses and disposes of waste water for 10 South County agencies, and the South Coast Water District, an independent agency that serves the water and sewer needs of 40,000 residents in Dana Point, South Laguna and north San Clemente, face a $204,000 fine from the state's Regional Water Control Board.According to the board's San Diego Region staff, the SOCWA and SCWD violated state permit restrictions concerning the discharge of
