Revised story on Fresh and Easy. This one has the obligatory kiss-up to Steven Ly. Never mind that the deal was all done but the dotting of the I's and crossing the T's before he was even elected. . . .

At least not as far as our state senator, Gloria Romero, is concerned. She wants to remove a rock called "serpentine," which is basically asbestos in its raw form, from the state's list of official things.

It is accepted as fact by most serious scholars of urban planning, public policy, and environmental policy that suburban sprawl is bad for the environment--more water to keep individual lawns green, more energy for heating and cooling, more air pollution and traffic congestion because everyone needs to drive a car to get anything they need.

The SGV Tribune seems to be opposed to cleaning up our beaches. That's somewhat typical of their provincial approach to policy.

Perhaps reading this story from a few years ago will remind them why cleaning up our storm water runoff matters.

There's always Dollar Tree, coming soon to Rosemead.

Even their stock is a good buy!

I've been watching this interesting TED talk by Ellen Dunham-Jones about turning suburbia into cities.

http://www.ted.com/talks/ellen_dunham_jones_retrofitting_suburbia.html

So I guess this means Rosemead is finally ahead of most other SGV cities on something--we launched our fireworks a day early.

Rosemead Park was emptier than most recent Independence Day celebrations. On the other hand, since Independece Day isn't until tomorrow, that meant driving home tonight was actually kind of pleasant--no need to dodge exploding fireworks on the ground!

Target used a helicopter to place a/c units on the roof of the store they're building in Azusa. The pictures accompanying the story reminded me of an event in Rosemead, a few years ago.