Philadelphia has figured out how to transform abandoned urban space into a productive urban garden, according to this story in the New York Times.  LA's similar effort was shut down two years ago. But perhaps thie success of the Philly operation will inspire like-minded Angelenos to make another go of it.  

On today's Huffiington Post, this insightful analysis of the West Virginia primary by RJ Eskow observes that "7% of the voters in West Virginia voted for John Edwards, who isn't even in the race. That fact is nothing short of stunning. Faced with a black man and a white woman, these voters chose a white man who isn't running. And these are Democrats."

I would have been surprised, and perhaps a little skeptical, of this assessment of the racism and sexism that are alive and well in America had I not not recently encountered them myself.

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If you click through to the LA Times opinion piece I wrote about the Silver Lake reservoir, you'll see that it's been correction appended. I wrote in the piece that the reservoir was drained of its entire 600,000 gallon supply, not enough to satisfy one day's water need for the city of Los Angeles. The actual supply contained in the reservoir is 600 million gallons. In fact, when I was writing the piece and doing the calculations, I was thinking in millions but somehow wrote thousands. What this means is that the point remains valid: the 600 million-gallon supply contained in the Silver Lake reservoir is not enough to satisfy a single day's water need for the city of LA.  The city consumes an average of about 602 million gallons of water a day.

My latest scheme.