Red Light Revolt!

As if there weren’t already enough reasons for students to cast their ballots in the upcoming election, red-light camera foes now have the chance to vote against them, and supporters have a chance to defend the cameras.

You’re driving along when you hit a red light, roll through the intersection as you make a right turn and see a camera flash.

At a key crossroads that sorts traffic going to and from Sonoma County, lights shift from green to yellow to red in a calculated counterpoint, timed at fractions of seconds.

California: Two More Cities Dump Red Light Cameras Yucaipa and Costa Mesa, California end their red light camera programs. Red light cameras are becoming less popular among municipal leaders in California. On Monday, the Yucaipa city council voted unanimously to cancel its photo enforcement contract with Redflex Traffic Systems of Australia.

In 1909 Britain’s prime minister, Herbert Asquith, and chancellor, David Lloyd George, presided over an extraordinary budget. It raised taxes on Britain’s landed, wealthy elites, so as to provide a raft of social services, from pensions to unemployment benefits. In many ways, it laid the groundwork for the welfare state that emerged after the second world war

Until about 10 days ago, I agreed with the conventional wisdom that control of the House of Representatives was up for grabs this fall but that Republicans had yet to put the Senate into play.

Hank Cochran wrote more than 550 songs, many of them conceived as he drove his car home from the office Photograph: Gab Archive/Redferns Songwriting in country music is the art of making the ordinary exceptional, the everyday timeless. Some of the most memorable examples of that skill in the 1960s and 70s came from the pen of Hank Cochran, who has died from cancer, aged 74

NEW YORK – The president of the Heisman Trophy Trust says a decision hasn’t been reached on whether to strip former Southern California running back Reggie Bush of the award he won in 2005 honoring college football’s top player. The Trust said in a statement Wednesday that it is “considering the issues raised in the USC/Reggie Bush matter” and will eventually publish its decision

Oscar-winning actor Geena Davis has a new role – on a California commission promoting the rights of women. Republican governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, announced Davis’s appointment, a Democrat, to the commission on the status of women yesterday. The commission works with Schwarzenegger to promote equality and justice for women and girls.

HAYWARD, Calif., July 19 /CHICAGOPRESSRELEASE.COM/ — (IFT BOOTH #5383) – CreAgri, Inc.® ( www.creagri.com ), a world leader in providing the highest quality polyphenol antioxidants from organic olives, announced today that a new hydroxytyrosol formulation was introduced along with the company’s expanded, highly credentialed executive team at the Institute of Food Technologists’ Annual Meeting & Food Expo in Chicago, July 17-20, 2010. The new particulate-free formula, HIDROX® 12%, is the latest addition to CreAgri’s® lines of natural, organic olive polyphenolic ingredients, which also include: HIDROX® Liquid (0.5%), HIDROX® Spray Dry 2%, and HIDROX® 6% freeze dry. HIDROX® is the proprietary ingredient developed using CreAgri’s® Integrale™ de-pitting process