What's in the News besides Another Pedestrian Hit

Sadly, another pedestrian--this time a three-year-old child-- has been hit.  But that hadn't yet happened when I wrote TO BE CONTINUED this morning. 

The good news is that I heard from 'Ana, who wrote a very warm response to my e-message and said the picture I sent of her sisters made her feel almost as if her sisters were alive again.

The headline today was "Feinstein aids farms over fish," which is the politically expedient thing to do, but as a Chronicle editorial points out, she's going against very carefully planned out allotments. 

District works make less than minimum pay--$9.37/hr.  The city's mandatory minimul wage is 10.87. 

There's a cybersecurity bug.

Searchers are optimistic pings will lead to the missing plane.

The US propaganda ploy that Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont was complaining about were drft messages produced for a twitter-like service in Cuba secretly funded by teh U.s. government.  They did promulgate political content, and the U.s. government went to great lengths to conceal its involvement.  One draft messages was:  54% of Americans think Michael Jackson is alive and 86% of Cubans think Fidel Castro is dead.  Another called Castro the "coma-andante." 

"analysis finds some doctors get millions from Medicare" reveals that one Florida pphthalmologist Salomon Melgen) who's good friends withSen. Robert Menendez of NJ, got $20.8 million.  High drug costs!

On Debra J. Saunders page, there's  an open Forum piece on General Motors the "Automaker (that) has betrayed everyone. 

Then you come to the 1/3 page graphic 'Did you know?"  As a Chronicle print subscribe, you already have access to our ontent across all digital devices including SFCHronicle.com on your desktop and smartphone, plus the daily e-edition and Chronicle app fo iPad.

There's a poliical cartoon by Joel Pett/Lexington Herald-Leder shoing "PING"S --FROM OVER-FISHING, DUMPING, POLLUTION, DEAD ZONES, MERCURY, SPECIES EXINCTION, SHAR FINNING, AND WHALING." 

Jose Manuel Martinez has confessed to 40 slaying in a career as a contract killer.  He worked as an enforcer for a drug cartel. 

Also in the news are a singing surgeon and 1st =graders coding for stickers, jelly beans, and M&M's. 

In LA country school desks are blocing the street i a new protest against neglect of pooer schools. 

I heard about the bigger tenant payouts at the Y and almost fell off the treatdmill.  It will $44,832 that landlords pay instead of $5,200 if they want to use the Ellis Act to remove renters from units. 

The ban on using killer-whales at SeaWorld wasn'tn't passesd, as I was telling Terry at the Y ysterdya. Instead of voting, they'll study it for a year.  The Animal Welfare Institute sponsored the bill.


Better news:  Jenny wrote from China!  She told me what she liked about A Marriage Act.