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Eco-Friendly Shopping Bags Contain Lead

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Not only do they sustain bacteria, they contain lead.

Scrape off the trendiness and a popular “green” choice is actually “gray” underneath; some reusable shopping bags contain lead.

The Tampa Tribune commissioned an independent lab to test the reusable shopping bags of the plasticy, painted-on graphic variety, sold by Winn-Dixie and Publix supermarkets.

In the first batch of tests, Winn-Dixie’s bag had lead levels at 121 parts per million and Publix had 87. In the second, there were 117 and 194 parts per million, respectively.

(The Cosumerist)

Eco-Friendly Shopping Bags Contain Lead

P.G. DUI Gets Just Two Years

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Driving with a BAC of .37 that’s beyond drunk. And had 3 prior DUIs.

After pleading guilty to driving drunk and nearly plowing down several children, Duke Kelso was sentenced to two years in prison.

Over the summer 29-year-old Kelso was driving drunk down Buena Vista Avenue when he parked his car on someone’s front lawn. Parents called police to report that someone almost hit numerous cars and children playing in the area.

P.G. DUI Gets Just Two Years

Coastal Commission Working Hard To Save Us From The Dreaded Mini Golf Course

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That home on 17 Mile drive with the nice lawns in the form of a golf course is once again under fire. Property rights? Ehhhh what rights?

“At all times since the finality of the order, the Feduniaks have continued to maintain the unpermitted golf course on the property, including watering and mowing the grass in violation of the orders,” the lawsuit says. And their noncompliance has been “knowing and intentional,” it alleges.

Failure to remove the tiny golf course harms the public because it “damages natural resources … interferes with the coastal commission’s attempts to uniformly and fairly enforce and administer the Coastal Act” and encourages other people to flout the coastal commission’s rules, the lawsuit says.


Coastal Commission Working Hard To Save Us From The Dreaded Mini Golf Course

Pebble Beach Art Theft Lawsuit – Toss It

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No chance?

Shapiro filed a motion in Monterey Superior Court Nov. 1 asking a judge to dismiss the lawsuit under California’s anti-SLAPP statute, which provides for early dismissal of lawsuits arising from an “act in furtherance of a person’s right of petition or free speech” unless a court determines there is a probability the plaintiff will prevail on the suit.

To help show that Amadio and Kennaugh probably won’t win their defamation suit, Shapiro argued that Kanalakis and Richards “were acting within the scope of their employment when they issued press releases or held press conferences … and therefore both are immune from any claim arising from that conduct.”

In regards to Monterey County’s liability in the lawsuit filed by Kennaugh and Amadio, Shapiro said a public entity is not liable for conduct by an employee who is immune.

Therefore, Shapiro said Kennaugh and Amadio “cannot establish a possibility, much less a probability, of prevailing on either of their claims.”

Pebble Beach Art Theft Lawsuit – Toss It

Cops Sue City

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PG Cops On Break

In a lawsuit filed Nov. 3, the Pacific Grove Police Officers’ Association targets the ordinance, which caps the city’s contribution to an employee’s pension plan at 10 percent of workers’ salaries.

The city currently contributes 9 percent for general employees and 19 percent for police officers.

The PGPOA’s 26-page lawsuit, which names P.G. city manager Tom Frutchey and every city council member, alleges unfair labor practices and asks a judge to find that the council’s ordinance is unconstitutional.

Cops Sue City

Jar News Trifecta – Fetus In A Jar At Mvsevm

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Planned Parenthood must discard fetus’ all the time – why the fuss?

The Mvsevm

Frutchey asked the P.G. Police Department to investigate the fetus’s origins and help determine what to do with it. “It’s not something we can prove we’ve legally acquired,” he says.

But Esther Trosow, a former museum archivist and current member of the city’s Museum Board, suggests the Foundation and the city have been too quick to offload the specimen. In her view, there’s nothing sinister about a natural history museum housing the fetus, which she speculates may have been donated by Ricketts.


Jar News Trifecta – Fetus In A Jar At Mvsevm