<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yiv0806996888" class="" style=""><div class="" style=""><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px;" class=""><div id="yiv0806996888" class="" style=""><div id="yiv0806996888yui_3_16_0_1_1415556065827_4467" class="" style=""><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px;" class="" id="yiv0806996888yui_3_16_0_1_1415556065827_4466"><div id="yiv0806996888yui_3_16_0_7_1415482307095_4" class="" style=""></div><div id="yiv0806996888yui_3_16_0_7_1415482307095_4" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;" class=""><a
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class=""><li style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px 0px 7px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(http://mavensnotebook.com/wp-content/themes/graphene/images/list-style-image.png);" class=""><strong class="" style="">Westlands fires back at the LA Times:</strong> From Tom Birmingham at Westlands Water District: “<em class="" style="">The Los Angeles Times recently published an intensely critical article about Westlands Water District, which recited many of the false, misleading, or outdated claims made by some of our critics over the years. The Times' editors refused to print an Op-Ed that the District offered in response. And so the District has taken out a full-page advertisement in the Times to provide readers with a better understanding of the issues facing Westlands and how we are addressing them</em>.” Click here to read the ad: <a
href="http://mavensnotebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Westlands-Ad-LA-Times-FINAL.pdf" style="color: rgb(23, 114, 175); text-decoration: none;" class="">Westlands Ad LA Times FINAL</a></li></ul><div id="yiv0806996888yui_3_16_0_7_1415482307095_4" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;" class=""><br style="" class=""></div><div id="yiv0806996888yui_3_16_0_7_1415482307095_4" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;" class=""><br id="yiv0806996888yui_3_16_0_1_1415482307095_42718" class="" style=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>