Supervisor Don Knabe

May 12 2011

Areas outside Metro service area

The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) will hold a Social Service Transportation Advisory Council meeting and a Transportation Development Act Article 8 Hearing Board meeting in Palmdale to review oral and written comments previously made in the North County and the city of Avalon public hearings. These meetings will follow up on the Article 8 Unmet Needs Public Hearings held in April.

Apr 6 2011

Organ and tissue donation

LOS ANGELES, Calif.—In an effort to get more Angelenos to register as organ donors, the Board of Supervisors today proclaimed April as "DMV-Donate Life California Month.''

The move was prompted by Supervisor Don Knabe, who said that a single organ donor can save up to eight lives and tissue donors can heal up to 50 other people.

"Making the noble decision to donate can be difficult, but there is no greater expression of compassion than making the life-giving act of organ and tissue donation,'' Knabe said.

Mar 29 2011

Joseph Gosinski, Joo Lee

LOS ANGELES, Calif.—County supervisors today offered a $10,000 reward for information that leads to the assailant who gunned down a car customizer in Torrance two days before Christmas, and renewed a $10,000 reward in a hit-and-run crash that killed a Glendale man.

Torrance police detectives believe Joseph Gosinski, 44, was targeted on Dec. 23 as he was closing his business, Chicane Sport Tuning at Del Amo Boulevard and Gramercy Place, for the night.

Jan 26 2011

Affordable Care Act of 2010

LOS ANGELES, Calif.—Los Angeles County Supervisors went on record as being opposed to any effort to undo the president's national healthcare plan.

Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas proposed that the board direct its legislative advocates to "take immediate and necessary action to preserve the Affordable Care Act of 2010,'' saying that the move was a "matter of (the county's) self interest.''

Jan 21 2011

From San Diego to the Bay Area

LOS ANGELES, Calif.—More than $30 million in federal stimulus funds has been set aside for buying property and doing other preliminary work in the Los Angeles area for a high-speed rail system that would run from San Diego to the Bay Area, transit officials announced.

California High-Speed Rail Authority and Metropolitan Transportation Authority officials said the money might be used to buy Union Station in downtown Los Angeles, where three segments of the line would converge.

Across Black America

Here’s a look at African American people and issues making headlines throughout the country.
 

Alabama
Freeman A. Hrabowski, president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, will address the annual African American Business Council luncheon on June 28. Hrabowski, who is chairman of President Barack Obama’s Advisory Commission on Education Excellence for African Americans, has a national reputation for his work studying the performance of minority students in math and science. Hrabowski, named one of the 10 best college presidents in the country by Time magazine, was a child leader in the Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham in the 1960s.
 

Arkansas
The Liberty Counsel filed a motion and a brief in United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas seeking to intervene on behalf of a Concepts of Life crisis pregnancy center to defend against a suit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Reproductive Rights. The groups seek to impose a permanent injunction before the Human Heartbeat Protection Act goes into effect July 18. Liberty Counsel also filed a brief opposing the ACLU’s request for an injunction. The “Heartbeat” bill states that when a woman seeks an abortion at or after the 12th week, doctors must test for a fetal heartbeat before an abortion is performed and inform the pregnant mother that the child in her womb has a heartbeat. If a heartbeat is detected, a woman cannot have an abortion, except in cases of rape, incest, and if a mother’s life is in danger. “As we promised when the legislation was introduced, Liberty Counsel will defend this law without reservation for the people of Arkansas, born and pre-born,” said Matt Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel. “No right is more foundational than the right to life. Without life, all other rights are irrelevant,” concluded Staver.