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Wealthy residents in a Democrat-led Californian city have been branded NIMBYs for fighting to keep 100 homeless people from being housed in a $134-a-night hotel. Crowds of angry Millbrae residents packed out their local community hall on Friday to protest 'Project Homekey' proposals to house rough sleepers at the La Quinta hotel on El Camino Real, close to the city center. While hundreds of belligerent residents continue their fight to halt the homeless housing plans, others have slammed the Dem-majority's hypocrisy for voting in liberal leaders but then pushing back on progressive policies. Jess Hudson, who is a local resident...

A 23-year-old California man has been charged with attempted arson for the May 31 firebombing of the East Valley Republican Women Federated office in La Quinta, according to reports.

Anti-Semitism at Coachella Valley, California taxpayer funded schools is far more pervasive than the “Beat the Jew” game hatched by La Quinta High School kids. The left leaning Desert Sun has dredged up a plethora of other incidents including swastikas on school walls and desks, anti- Semitic jokes and taunts toward Jewish students and worse. A Jewish student at Palm Desert High School spoke anonymously: "• The student said the school ‘has swastikas (drawn) all over our desks … all over campus.’ Some students have the Nazi symbol drawn on their skin, and a group of ‘wannabe skinhead’ students wear...

Students at La Quinta High School, in So Cal’s Coachella Valley have been amusing themselves playing a game called “Beat the Jew”. In the “game”, a runner is called a “Jew” and chased by groups of people in cars called “Nazis”. "'The objective for the Jew is to run down Hwy. 111 to a specified checkpoint before the Nazis can catch up to him, tackle him down and capture him,’ according to a Facebook page that was taken down on Friday." Desert Sands Unified School District Superintendent Sharon McGehee displayed the twisted view of the First Amendment endemic to liberals:...

(April 3, 2007)—Gov. Rick Perry spoke out Tuesday against proposed legislation that would put a two-year moratorium on private toll road projects including the Trans-Texas Corridor and urged lawmakers to “ensure vital transportation projects continue as planned.” Several bills are pending in Austin aimed at putting the brakes on the massive highway project. State Representative Lois W. Kolkhorst of Brenham has filed a bill that would kill the project altogether and a second measure that calls for a two-year moratorium on allowing private entities from buying the rights to build and operate toll roads. During a visit with US Transportation...

With a major interstate running right through our area traffic is a common topic for Central Texans. How do we solve the problem of more traffic on i-35? Is the Trans Texas Corridor a realistic solution and do we even need it? In part two of our Trans Texas Corridor series we look at the project from a needs angle. There are basically two sides to the Trans Texas Corridor project, those for it and those against. One thing both sides gree on is that something needs to be done. There are twenty one million Texas residents. 45 percent of...

QUETZALTENANGO, Guatemala -- Across Central America, growing numbers of impoverished children appear to be setting out for the United States on their own, risking robbery, rape and death as they try to sneak illegally through Mexico and across the U.S. border. Last year, 6,460 underage illegal immigrants from Central America were detained in the United States while traveling without their parents and sent to government shelters, a 35 percent increase over the previous year. Many others likely slipped in undetected.

SACRAMENTO - State Sen. Jim Battin, R-La Quinta, said Tuesday that he is being investigated by the state Fair Political Practices Commission in connection with donations to his campaign committees. In a statement, Battin said he was cooperating with commission officials. He blamed the inquiry on "bogus complaints" filed by a Democratic colleague. Sen. Mike Machado, D-Linden, was angry at GOP criticism of Machado's fund-raising practices during a tough re-election fight, Battin said. Machado withdrew the complaint last July, Battin said. But that didn't stop the commission's investigation. "I did not attempt to conceal the source of any campaign funds....

Wichita, Feb. 02, 2005 (CNA) - La Quinta Inns has ordered late-term abortionist George Tiller to stop using its hotels to provide ongoing medical care to abortion patients undergoing multiple-day procedures at his clinic, reported Operation Rescue. Due to pressure from pro-life organizations, the corporate head office sent an investigator to Wichita and discovered that Tiller’s nurses were renting rooms at the local La Quinta Inn in order to provide ongoing medical care to abortion patients. La Quinta Inn representative Teresa Ferguson informed Operation Rescue that Tiller was called by the corporate office and told to immediately stop the practice,...

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A pro-life group is calling on a national boycott of La Quinta Inn, a national chain of hotels, because a Wichita location offers discounted rates for women traveling to the Midwestern city to obtain late-term abortions. Wichita is home to infamous late-term abortion practitioner George Tiller, one of the few abortion practitioners in the country to perform very late-term abortions. As a result, women travel from across the region to obtain abortions at his office. When they do, the local La Quinta Inn, owned and operated by the national corporate office, offers discounts to stay for...