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Is a $600 Million School Too Fancy?

Richard Lawson · 08/23/10 11:44AM

The Los Angeles public school system, the second-largest in the country, is set to unveil its new Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools complex, a K-12 "Taj Mahal" school that cost $578 million, the most expensive in US history. Too much?

What Can I Get For A Dollar?

Douglas Reinhardt · 09/12/08 12:20PM

Click to viewBoomp3.com Evidence that even the famous are feeling the sting of the current economic crunch was displayed when Grey’s Anatomy star Katherine Heigl was spotted holding a dollar bill in Los Feliz yesterday. Heigl is interested in refurnishing her home, but she has to stick to her budget. Heigl said, “I feel like that kid in front of the ice cream truck just yelling, ‘What can I get for such and such’. Nobody has been that helpful so far. Just a lot of eye rolling and comments about how I should save it for the valet.” That said, Heigl’s strict budgeting has not affected the necessities. Heigl added, “We’re going to get the biggest HDTV they have at Best Buy. Maybe we’ll be able to write that off as a business expense since I have to see how I look in Hi-Def and all. I heard that I shouldn’t have anything to worry about.” [Photo Credit: X17] *A Call To The Bullpen is a work of fiction. Although the pictures we use are most certainly real, Defamer does not purport that any of the incidents or quotations you see in this piece actually happened. Lighten up, people ... it's a joke.