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could provoke so much vitriol. But since the arrival of European colonists, the coyote’s image has gone from being respected by Native Americans to straight-up vilified.
By Paul Rosenberg, Senior Editor
Hillary Clinton became the first woman ever nominated for president by a major party at the Democratic National Convention. The convention brimmed with speeches by political powerhouses that contrasted starkly with the Republican convention the week before. But the speech that stole the show came from a grieving Gold Star father, Khizr Khan. His son, Capt. Humayun Khan, was killed by a car bomb in Iraq in June 2004, while heroically saving the lives of the soldiers under his command. The young man died in a war that Clinton, when she was the junior senator from New York state, voted to wage. That vote cost her the Democratic presidential nomination eight years ago. But in the wake of Republican nominee Donald Trump’s call for a ban on all Muslims entering the U.S., Khan spoke powerfully on Clinton’s behalf, as both parties struggled with their historical identities. “Hillary Clinton was right when she called my son ‘the best of America;’ If it was up to Donald Trump, he never would have been in America,” said Khan, who was born in Pakistan and came to the U.S. with his wife and children in 1980. He came to this country to pursue a Master’s degree at Harvard Law School. “Donald Trump, you are asking Americans to trust you with their future. Let me ask you: Have you even read the United States Constitution?” Khan asked, pulling his dog-eared copy of the foundational document from inside his suit jacket and waving it above his head. “ I will gladly lend you my copy.” The delegates roared but Khan was not finished. “Have you ever been to Arlington Cemetery?” he continued. “Go look at the graves of brave patriots who died defending United States of America — you will see all faiths, genders, and ethnicities. You have sacrificed nothing and no one! “We can’t solve our problems by building walls and sowing division. We are ‘Stronger Together,’” he echoed Clinton’s campaign slogan. “And we will keep getting stronger when Hillary Clinton becomes our next president,” he said. Khan’s short, powerful speech seemed to epitomize a fundamental shift in party politics. Even disaffected conservatives praised the Democratic convention for its patriotism and positivity. The word-count of Trump’s acceptance speech was dramatically more negative than any other acceptance speech since 1972.
Dogged Pursuit
In Long Beach, the war against coyotes is being waged specifically in the neighborhoods surrounding the El Dorado Park Nature Center. A recent spike in coyote sightings and pet attacks have riled up residents. In 2015, there were about 223 coyote reports, according to Lon Beach Animal care Services. These include sightings and pet attacks. That [See Coyotes page 10]
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ost people wouldn’t think that an urban landscape would be rife with wildlife, especially in Los Angeles County, the land of freeways and terrible drivers. However, there is one animal that’s steadily challenging the perception of the typical urban setting. From San Pedro to Long Beach, the canis latrans, the song dog, or coyote, has become a source of discord in the Harbor Area. Regarded as canine pests, killers of vermin, livestock and pets, coyotes have been the targets of governmentsanctioned killing for more than a century. It’s hard to believe an animal the size of a small German shepherd
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