Showing posts with label Abby Sewell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Abby Sewell. Show all posts

Thursday, April 2, 2015

Idiots--On Steroids!!!

April 02, 2015 Abby Sewell , Latimes.com 0 Comments
LA County Supervisors Vote 5-0 To Study Raising The Minimum Wage 

By Abby Sewell, Mar. 31, 2015, Latimes.com

The movement to substantially increase the local minimum wage won a significant boost Tuesday when the county Board of Supervisors voted to follow the city of Los Angeles in studying the idea.

Until now, the campaign to raise the wage to as much $15.25 an hour has largely focused within the city of 4 million residents, prompting concerns that businesses would move to communities where wages remain lower.

But with their vote Tuesday, the supervisors put in play unincorporated areas that include an additional 1 million residents and stretch from the High Desert to the San Gabriel Valley.

The supervisors agreed to weigh the impact of not only requiring a higher baseline pay for their roughly 100,000 employees — the largest local government workforce in the United States — but also for county contractors and businesses in those unincorporated areas.

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Sunday, May 25, 2014

Isla Vista Shootings: Victim's Father Wants To Meet Father Of Attacker --Powerful, sobering

May 25, 2014 Abby Sewell , California 0 Comments
Christopher Michaels-Martinez
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By Abby Sewell, May 25, 2014, Latimes.com

The father of Isla Vista shooting victim Christopher Michaels-Martinez said he wants to meet with the father of his son's killer to work toward preventing future tragedies.

“I lost my son. He lost his son. We have that in common,” Richard Martinez said. “We want, if possible, that the deaths of our son and his son should mean something.”

Michaels-Martinez, a 20-year-old UC Santa Barbara student, was the only child of two attorneys, his mother a deputy district attorney and his father a criminal defense attorney. He grew up in the San Luis Obispo area and graduated from San Luis Obispo High School in 2012.

His parents separated when he was child but shared custody and maintained a cordial relationship, Martinez said. Michaels-Martinez was a studious kid and avid reader -- including the"Hunger Games," "Harry Potter" and "Game of Thrones series" -- but also an athlete from a young age, his father said, beginning with soccer and going on to play football and basketball.

“Sometimes he was the most skilled player on the field, and even if he wasn’t, he was the most determined player on the field,” Martinez said, recalling a junior high school basketball game in which his son played on a team of four against a team of eight and Christopher’s team won.

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