Measure B, the city initiative on the March 3 ballot that calls for the installation of rooftop panels to capture solar energy, could cost more than double current estimates, according to a draft audit of the Department of Water and Power obtained by the Daily News.
Delayed state payments could by catastrophic for many As owner of child-care facility Auntie Jessie's Playhouse in Lancaster, Jessica Timmons is one of hundreds of thousands of Californians whose lives could be catastrophically affected by the state's plan to begin delaying billions of dollars in payments to welfare recipients, child-care providers and others Monday.
This is just how Dennis Keyes envisioned it. The grandeur of the Super Bowl, the hype, the press, the fans, media day, pressure, practice, especially the practice.
Exxon Mobil, the world's largest publicly traded oil company, on Friday reported a profit of $45.2 billion for 2008, breaking its own record for a U.S. company, even as its fourth-quarter earnings fell 33 percent from a year ago.
Three generations of children have grown up with Thomas the Tank engine. The smiling blue locomotive, born in the imagination of the Rev. W. Awdry, was parlayed into some of the best-loved children's books of the mid- to late 20th century. Today, the empire that has been built around this most famous of steam trains dwarfs those stacks.
LOS Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky was right on Tuesday when he referred to the economic state of California as a potential "doomsday" situation.
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