The Weekly Newspaper of Torrance Herald Publications - Torrance, El Segundo, Manhattan Beach, Hawthorne, Lawndale, & Inglewood Community Newspapers Since 1911 - (310) 322-1830 - Vol. 2, No. 40 - October 4, 2012 Inside the Life of Riley in TorranceTurner Leaves Racing to LiveThis Issue Business & Professional.....................11 Calendar...............................2 Classifieds .........................13 Community...........................3 Crossword/Sudoku ..........13 Faith ......................................2 Food ..................................8-9 Police Reports....................3 Hi, my name is Turner and I am a pure-bread racing greyhound. Recently, I was adopted by a wonderful family after two long years of racing in Mexico. I am four years old now and can you believe it Politically Speaking...........5 don’t need much space, we don’t eat much, we are very loving, and best of all we come house broken, you know we do it outside. Boy, Greyhound Pets of America has saved me and made my life theI’m retired! But I still have many other buddies in Mexico and across the U.S. who still are working and want this “couch potato” life. Maybe you can tell other people that we make great house pets, we life of Riley! Photo courtesy of Tom Lancaster. Author Discusses Book, Details of Seedy Smile Awhile Winner........2 Sports............................ 5, 11 Human Organ Market By Cristian Vasquez was never seriously threatened for the work of recently deceased bodies to buying human TerriAnn ...............................7 Torrance’s Katy Geissert Library hosted that I have done on this topic, but you are organs from willing sellers caught in desperate another of its successful Meet the Author events. putting yourself out there.” situations, the human body and parts that make However, the September 27 event brought to Carney’s investigating was based in India and it up has always been a valuable and lucrative the city’s residents a topic that is usually only lasted almost six years. During his research, commodity around the world. Such markets read about or seen in special investigative Carney discovered that human organs and continue to profit because of the poverty that reports: the trafficking of human organs. bones have been trafficked for years in the exists and creates human misery. Weekend a variety of topics for our diverse community,” City Lobbyist Reports to See Author, page 6name of medical science. From grave robbing“I think that what he Carney has to sayis very important for a community and as alibrary, we are here to provide information on Forecast Torrance Library Dana Vinke said. “While Council on EarmarksPrincipal Librarian of Operations for the we do tend to have a lot of programs that By Dylan Little that keeps small communities from being Friday important to discuss. I think that based on the Council heard a report from federal “In the end, if you have a real difficultyOn Tuesday night, the Torrance Cityable to decide how their money is spent.are more mainstream, something like this is Partly in the topic and they want to be intellectually of earmarks. While earmarks have been am now powerless to change that actionspecific to this area with a regulation…Ilobbyist David Turch on the importanceattendance, it shows that people are interested Cloudy stimulated and they want to have more of these demonized by federal politicians as an legislatively because as soon as I specify 72˚/64˚ types of programs for discussion.” expensive drain on the country’s resources, an individual entity or community, it is nowJournalist and author Scott Carney discussedan earmark,” said Turch. “If you believeTurch believes that they shave been given some of his experiences while researching a bad rap, as their purpose isn’t to add to that the government that governs best is the the intricacies of the human organ market spending but to direct those expenditures government that’s closest to the people, let’s Saturday The Red Market: On the Trail of the World’s That impacts communities nationwide that keep those decisions closest to the people.”Turch mentioned that because of theto places Congress thinks need the money.and which led to the publishing of his book Partly Organ Brokers, Bone Thieves, Blood Farmers might otherwise be overlooked for federal relatively recent backlash against earmarks, Cloudy the human organ market is as complex as spending. had to shift its focus away from makinghis firm (David Turch and Associates) has“In any event, why do earmarks relate As described by Carney,and Child Traffickers. 73˚/63˚ currently exist to try and prevent the selling all they involve dollars. And I do want to and towards researching broad grants andsure money is appropriated to Torranceto this community?” said Turch. “First ofany other business, legal or illegal. Laws and buying of human organs. However, the make the point that earmarks do not increase figuring out if Torrance would be eligible- author notes that there is a lackluster effort federal expenditures by one penny. It’s a -then notifying City staff to help secure Sunday at best to enforce these laws. overall cap decided by the budget committee those subsidies.“Life is so much more complicated forquestion of who gets to decide. There is an“I think I have found some stuff that is Mostly very obnoxious and should be ended, but of how much money each appropriations firms like mine. I have restructured…I Sunny gets fixed,” Carney said. “Ultimately, it is subcommittee gets to spend.” one person full-time who does nothing butnow assign, and am large enough to do it,Because earmarks are for the momentunfortunately there is no guarantee that anything 70˚/62˚ difficult to find very horrible things happening prohibited, it keeps lobbyists like Turch from analyze the federal bureaucracy for grant in the world and then being powerless except asking Congress to send money to clients opportunities,” said Turch. “I’m hoping it’ll to say something about it. Sometimes you’re like the City of Torrance. In Turch’s opinion, See City, page 3 put at risk while you’re doing this. I personally
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