{"id":7608,"date":"2013-04-04T18:58:34","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T01:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=7608"},"modified":"2013-04-04T18:58:53","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T01:58:53","slug":"some-local-news-times-for-varying-values-of-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=7608","title":{"rendered":"Some Local News Times (for varying values of Local)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5032\" alt=\"userpic=simpsons\" src=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/userpicsimpsons.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/>This has been a weird week, what with April Fools day at the start, and a roadtrip to UC Berkeley tomorrow. But here are a few items about various &#8220;local&#8221; things that have caught my eye this week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Steepest Street (Los Angeles)<\/strong>. This is one I need to go see. Evidently, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/feeling-gravity-s-pull-on-l-a-s-steepest-streets\">Los Angeles has some of the steepest streets around<\/a> (even steeper, I believe, than San Francisco) &#8212; one is 33%, and another, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lamag.com\/citythink\/citythinkblog\/2013\/03\/26\/citydig-how-baxter-became-one-of-las-steepest-streets\">Baxter Street, is 32%<\/a>. One of these days I need to go visit these streets and attempt to drive or walk them.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kidnapping and Mayhem (Northridge).<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-northridge-kidnapping-20130404,0,462297.story\">This story has been fascinating me because it is so close to home<\/a> &#8212; really. A home invasion robbery where the homeowners were home turned into a kidnapping of a 10 year old girl, her sexual assault, and her dumping at a Starbucks bruised and battered. This is the kind of kidnapping &#8212; stranger kidnapping &#8212; that rarely happens.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Home of Coffee and Tea (Camarillo).<\/strong> There are some that enjoy beverages from the Borg of Seattle. Still others go for the competition from San Francisco. Southern Californians have a soft spot for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vcstar.com\/news\/2013\/apr\/03\/camarillo-facility-perks-up-coffee-bean-tea\/\">the Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf, which roasts its coffee and packages its tea in Camarillo, CA<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Blast from the Past (Berkeley).<\/strong> Given that I&#8217;ve mentioned Peets, I should do something from Northern California. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigmapblog.com\/2013\/birdseye-view-of-berkeley-calif\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BigMapBlog+%28BIG+Map+Blog%29\">So here&#8217;s a map of Berkeley California from 1909<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>And All The Rest<\/strong>. So I still haven&#8217;t hit home? OK, you&#8217;ll have to make do with <a href=\"http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/article\/24358\/whats-nickname-origins-all-30-mlb-team-names\">finding out where your favorite baseball team got their nickname<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Music:<\/strong> <em>The Six String Conspiracy<\/em> (Rick Ruskin): &#8220;Frere Jacques&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has been a weird week, what with April Fools day at the start, and a roadtrip to UC Berkeley tomorrow. But here are a few items about various &#8220;local&#8221; things that have caught my eye this week: Steepest Street (Los Angeles). This is one I need to go see. 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