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All Shook Up - John Davis

• The Big One - Classic Poster by Ron Cobb
• Map of the Venice Quake

What Should Be Done With The Postal Annex? - Carolyn Rios

4,236 U.S. Casualties in Iraq; 1,307,319 Iraqi Dead;
644 U.S. Casualties in Afghanistan, Cost of Iraq: $592 billion

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Staff Box, Mission Statement, Sustainers, Subscription rates

Letters:

• Postcard from Venice (Italy) - Lance Diskan
• Parking and Homelessness - Casey Bowen

Alternate Proposal to Permit Parking - Mark Lipman

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Showdown on Permit Parking?

• The Main Event - Coastal Commission meets Feb. 4
• The Local Event - Neighborhood Council meets Feb. 21
• Venice Votes - Mark Lipman
• Can we work this out? - C.V. Beck
• How Overnight Parking Districts Became An Issue in Venice?
• Photo: No Parking 2am to 6am - Jim Smith

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First Lecture of 2009! - R.F. Wagner, Jr.

Correction: Big Bill's Automotive found, at last. Photo by Peggy Lee Kennedy

Letter:

• Vote No on Measure B - DeDe Audet

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Solar Power to the People? What's Wrong With Measure B - Jim Smith

From the Beachhead Collective: The March 3 Election – A real snoozer

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An Island of Mystery - Jim Smith

• Sidebar: How Artists Survive In Cuba - Jim Smith
• Photos by Jim Smith

My Friend Sponto - Carol Fondiller - continued from page 1

Sponto is gone - Suzy Williams - continued from page 1

• Photo of Sponto - Leland Auslender
• Photo of Sponto - eye~m~drc
• Photo of inscriptions to Sponto - Jim Smith

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Venice Says Good Bye to Sponto - Eric Yarber

• Photos by Venice Paparazzi

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PAGE EIGHT

We All Scream for N'ice Cream - Yolanda Miranda

Poem: Snapshots of the Unemployed - Sherman Pearl

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Venice Says Good Bye to Sponto - continued from page 7

Photo: Venice in 1925 - from Venice California - Coney Island of the Pacific, by Jeffrey Stanton

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Poetry:

• Letter to the Brother taken by War - Antonieta Villamil
• Winter - hillary kaye
• Ah Romantics, Thus Are We - Mark Lipman
• Gaza, 90291 - Jim Smith
• Monday Morning Errands - krista schwimmer
• Untitled - Jack Cross
• Hiroshima - Jessica Aden
• Commitment (to Mark "Sponto" Kornfeld - Suzanne Verdal

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Venice History – Was the Annexation of Venice to Los Angeles in 1925 a good idea? - Part 2 - Jeffrey Stanton

Alternate Proposal to Permit Parking - continued from page 2

Island of Mystery - contined from page 6

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Put A Little Love In Your Heart - Amy V. Dewhurst

Island of Mystery - contined from page 7

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Calendar

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