“It was such a violent change of events.”
— California Highway Patrol Officer Andre Primeaux, discussing a crash on the Golden State (5) Freeway involving a big rig that slammed through the center divider and snarled the morning commute for hours Tuesday.
“Health care is the most important element in providing a good life for all Americans, yet our current health-care system is broken.”
— South Pasadena resident Roy Komato, who was leading chants on a sidewalk in front of the California headquarters of health insurer CIGNA Corp., where protesters pushed for universal health coverage.
“There should have been a lot of tell-tale signs. I mean, like wading in mud.”
— Tom Maddock, a professor of hydrology at University of Arizona’s Department of Hydrology and Water Resources, on the suggestion from city officials that 1.5 million gallons of water should be billed to resident Escott Norton because the quantity could have flowed through a leak under his property.
