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Posted on October 27 at 5:22 a.m.
I didn't say lack of a BMX track is the only reason kids are fat today. There are a number of factors causing that shift, but opportunities for outdoor activities can only help to turn the tide back. A BMX track is one venue that would provide an outlet.
One thing I didn't understand from above is the desire to build a "visitor's center" where the current track is. What the heck is that? Sounds like a building with signs explaining the place that nobody would ever use and it would just get grafitti'd and take up space. It seems like more people would find a venue for activities a lot more useful than a visitor's center they maybe look at once, if at all.
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Posted on October 26 at 6:26 p.m.
I don't think some of the opponents realize there are already lots of bike trails on this so-called pristine land.
I think giving kids something outdoors to do is a good thing. Our kids are becoming obese because we've ceased to be an outdoor culture.
The area is not some untouched wildlife wonderland. It's a semi-urban park and the perfect place to put in relatively low profile outdoor activity venues such as BMX and disc golf. I don't participate in either, but I know kids who do and who would rather do these things than stay inside and play video games if they had safe venues close to home.
Someone wants to see a mountain lion out there? Are you nuts? If one was seen there, it would result in a massive hunt and the animal would be shot by law enforcement for threatening people and their pets. There's not enough area there for such creatures unless we want to see them on the news like the bear shot recently.
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Posted on September 6 at 6:12 p.m.
"I have lectured extensively to drug rehab groups. The addicts have been very candid with me about their addiction to marijuana. Other illegal drugs have a higher level of addiction than marijuana but, just because there are drugs with higher addiction levels than marijuana, doesn't nullify the negative effects of marijuana nor the fact that it is addictive. THC levels in marijuana are significantly higher than 30 years ago thus people are getting higher doses of this psychoactive substance when they smoke marijuana. Additionally, marijuana has, comparing the same weights, 3 times more of the tar, nicotine, and other detrimental substances in it than tobacco has. Many marijuana smokers use tobacco in between their marijuana hits to feed the nicotine addiction they have developed ."
I'm curious whether you've compared these addicted pot smokers to anyone addicted to LEGAL alcohol and tobacco? Why are those legal and weed isn't? How many times do stoned people get into fights and cause trouble versus drunk ones?
Another point - the recent La Brea fire was started due to an illegal weed grow. There's been violence associated with the illegal weed grows (body found on Hwy 154 a couple years ago as a local example). If we want to take the Mexican Mafia type illegal operations out of the area, how about make weed totally legal and cut the bottom out of the market? It would cut the enforcement costs, help the gov't through taxes, and give farmers another crop t help the bottom line. If people could legally buy it, there'd be no need for this scary and growing issue in our forests.
Again I say, ask law enforcement whether they are winning, ever will win, and support legalization or not.
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Posted on September 6 at 7:57 a.m.
Want to solve the budget crisis? Legalize, regulate, and tax it like tobacco. Alcohol is far more dangerous and yet it's available all over the place. I can even go to a wine or beer tasting room, drink, then hop in my car!
Ask law enforcement, many of them support legalization.
And no, I'm not one who partakes myself, I just see the logic in stopping a fight that we're further from winning after decades of trying and that is based on information that is many decades old.
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Posted on September 3 at 6:10 p.m.
Clearly the skateboard was the ringleader.
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Posted on May 21 at 5:18 a.m.
I thought there was an announcement yesterday that the trails were opened?
It didn't make sense to me that they would open them, but that's what I read on the Indy and Key News websites.
Posted on May 17 at 9:02 p.m.
Also at El Rancho and Nielsen's in SYV. Very pricey though!
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Posted on May 8 at 6:10 a.m.
Does anyone have an update on Canyon Acres Dr.?
The Indy report said 1 structure burning there as of 1 am. My family's place is at the end of that rd, so I'm trying to find out if it and the neighbor's places are still standing.
Posted on February 22 at 7:15 p.m.
So that's it and these a$$holes get away with murder? Will there be a future trial with other evidence not involving the reluctant (intimidated no doubt) witness? Something really stinks about this.
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Posted on November 2 at 5:17 a.m.
I ride my bicycle past that intersection all the time. I'm very sad for Martinez' family and the CHP and very glad I was not riding there at the time.
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