Subject: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

• The Foothills in your Headlights: The Extension approved

  Yesterday, the board members of the Foothills/Eastern Transportation Corridor Agency voted 12-3 to approve the $875 million Foothills South (241) extension, which will cut through both San Onofre State Beach and the Donna O'Neill Land Conservancy. But that ominous rumbling you hear in the distance isn't the sound of bulldozers starting, it's the chuckling of herds of attorneys thinking about all the billable hours this vote guarantees them. Because this vote, far from being the end of the matter

  February 24, 2006

• Troubled Waters

  Normally, when a major clean-up effort for a polluted site is announced-- an effort which will bring to bear the resources of both the local and federal government-- environmentalists are happy. But this is Orange County, where the eco-friendly have often seen their green hopes fade to grey (and then get paved), so the announcement yesterday at Aliso & Wood Canyons Wilderness Park that the EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers will be joining the county to detox and otherwise improve Aliso

  August 31, 2006

• Love That Dirty Water

  Troubling news from American Rivers, the 75,000-member strong nonprofit that is trying to save and restore our nation's rivers: The Supreme Court of the United States today handed down a divided decision in the Rapanos and Carabell cases that will lead to confusion on the ground and grave risk for the health of streams and rivers. A centrist opinion by Justice Anthony M. Kennedy now stands as the only impediment to four justices pushing to roll back significant protections of the Clean Water Ac

  June 19, 2006

• Something Stinks

  You know how the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Environmental Protection Agency announced recently they are joining forces to clean up stinky Aliso Creek (finally), which spews its filth into South Laguna's Aliso Beach? Yeah, when have we heard that before? Oh, yeah, eight years ago. Anyway, you'd think such an announcement would be embraced by the local environmentalists who have worked tirelessly to clean that cesspool up. But, in the LA Times story on the agreement, Penny Elia, who chairs a

  September 15, 2006

• Army Tackles Toll Road

  When supporters of the 241 (Foothill-South) toll road and its builder, the Transportation Corridor Agencies, hear opponents claim they'll stop the project, the reply is usually along the lines of, "You and what army?" The United States Army, assholes. That's right, the Army is finally providing the necessary firepower to blow the TCA's lies clean out of the sky. Colonel Thomas H. Magness is District Commander of the Los Angeles District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (COE). You may rememb

  April 9, 2008

• Colonel of Wisdom

  This toll road debate is starting to feel like Clue—who's going to kill the project? Was it Colonel Magness, in the media, with cold, hard facts? Col. Thomas Magness wrote a little letter the Transportation Corridor Agencies didn't like. The letter disclosed that the TCA's preferred, certified alignment for their Foothill-South (241) toll road extension was not in fact the Least Environmentally Damaging Practicable Alternative (LEDPA). In layman's terms, LEDPA means "that which is least idio

  April 23, 2008

• 241 Toll Road Update

  The Department of Commerce has stated their interest in holding a public hearing on the Foothill-South toll road extension, disregarding the impotent raging of Transportation Corridor Agencies counsel Robert Thornton. The LA Times reported on the road's construction cost leaping from $875 million to $1.3 billion and that ridership is down on the Foothill-South by "nearly 4 percent." The Army Corps of Engineers has declared that there could still be potential alternatives to the favored route, on

  May 29, 2008

• Beach Blanket Stinko

  May 6, 1999

• Whose Poop Is It Anyway?

  December 30, 1999

• A River Runs Beneath It

  January 20, 2000

• The Tragedy of It All

  September 15, 2005

• Hot Little Pony Are Actually Emo Icons Far. Or Are They?

  October 9, 2008

• The Huntington Beach Playhouse's New Musical, 'Born to Ride the Waves,' Feels a Tad Too Familiar

  July 10, 2008

• How New Developments in Laguna Beach Will (and Won't) Deal With the Pollution in Aliso Creek

  May 29, 2008

• The Anus of Aliso Viejo

  April 1, 1999

• Road to Nowhere Fast

  Foothill-South delayed until 2011, possibly forever

  March 15, 2007

• A River Runs Through Us

  November 23, 2006

• Three Steps to Nowhere

  October 12, 2006

• Sea Shorts by the Seashore (10 Times Fast)

  March 23, 2006

• Dana Point

  October 20, 2005

• Thank God for That Tax Cut!

  September 8, 2005

• Take Out Venezuela!

  On a date!

  September 1, 2005

• A CLOCKWORK NARANJA

  September 1, 2005

• Killer Fish

  May 19, 2005

• Dam Us!

  Januarys flooding wasnt an act of god, but man

  January 27, 2005

• A Road Runs Through It

  July 3, 2003

• Colonial Capitalism

  May 1, 2003

• Remembering the Future of Orange Countys Great Park

  February 28, 2002

• Toxic Company

  May 24, 2001

• When the Levee Broke

  June 15, 2000

• Talking Shit

  October 21, 1999

• A Sewer Runs Through It

  September 23, 1999

• Letters

  April 15, 1999

• July-September

  January 7, 1999

• Ron Packard, Military Whore

  October 8, 1998

• Knock 'Em Down

  October 1, 1998

• Where Will Surfin' Congressman Stand on Long Beach Breakwater?

  The surfin' congressman. As Louis Sahagun blogged on the LA Times' L.A. Now, Long Beach has released the long-awaited results of a study aimed at reconfiguring the breakwater to create bigger waves, cleaner water and beaches, and more surf tourism. According to the study, the city could gain $52 million a year in local spending--and $7 million annually in taxes and fees. The engineering firm Moffat & Nichol is scheduled to present details of the $100,000 report to the Long

  July 24, 2009