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  • It's the mild, mild West as state gets ban-happy

    09/03/2012 1:55:02 PM PDT · by SmithL · 11 replies
    Sacramento Bee ^ | 9/3/12 | Brooks Barnes and Michael Cieply, The New York Times
    LOS ANGELES – "Whatever it is, I'm against it!" Groucho Marx sang in a 1932 picture filmed on the Paramount lot here. Today's Southern Californians seem to agree. Once know for its sunny, freewheeling disposition, this region has long been as regulated as anywhere. Lately, however, cities, school districts and even libraries have been outlawing chunks of what used to pass for birthright at a startling clip. Bonfires on the beach? Sorry, Gidget: Newport Beach is waiting for permission from the California Coastal Commission to remove its long-cherished fire pits, which it banned this summer as health hazards. Newport's fleet...