Long Beach City College Gets a Grip on Its Bunny Surplus (Chronicle of Higher Education)
Long Beach City College has turned a corner in a yearlong effort to deal with a soaring rabbit population, thanks to what the Press-Telegram, a local newspaper, described as an aggressive spay-and-neuter campaign. In March 2010, the two-year institution in Southern California had on its campus more than 300 bunnies, many of them abandoned by pet owners who had decided it was too much work to care for the animals. And the population was only growing since the former pets were multiplying like, well, you know what. Today, the newspaper reported, the campus’s rabbit census stands at 70. Donna Prindle, head of the college’s Rabbit Population Management Task Force, said 170 had been placed with new owners. Most of the others have been released back into the wild.
Obama chimp email leads to home protest (OC Reg)
"The people united could never be divided."
Chants of these words Saturday pierced the stillness and quietude of the tree-lined street containing the home of Marilyn Davenport, a governing member of the Orange County GOP's Central Committee.
Davenport has been under fire for sending out an email depicting President Barack Obama and his parents as chimpanzees.
On Saturday morning, a group of about 25 people representing a coalition of African American groups, held a prayer vigil outside Davenport's home and demanded that she resign from the committee….
