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It's Not Always Sunny in California
Lapsed Members of AAA SoCal Can't Renew Extended Towing Coverage Without Probation
Like a number of other AAA regional clubs, the Automobile Club of Southern California requires that new members maintain a basic membership without usage for
at least 12 months before they're allowed to upgrade to a membership with longer towing coverage.
It's not our policy, but we get it. Tows are expensive, and it's hard to keep membership rates reasonable if you're signing people up just to tow them for dozens of miles right away.
Once you'd done your time, however, we'd have thought that you would have won AAA's trust. Apparently not so: let your Plus membership in the SoCal Automobile Club lapse and you're back on probation, regardless of how long you've been a
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5 Great Ways to Find Roadside Assistance
by Constance Gustke, Foxbusiness.com
"Affinity clubs have a full menu of benefits...
Take the Better World Club. Its basic roadside assistance program costs $56...[and] Members get extra perks like eco-travel services and discounts on hybrid car rentals."
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Baby It's Cold Outside
So Be Careful When You Drive Out to Get Me That Hot Chocolate
For many of our members (hey, Northeast!), winter means snow and ice, which in turn mean difficult driving conditions. We can't, however, let that stop you from exchanging our Christmas presents.
Keep in mind: We'll always work as hard as we can to help, but your best options for help in a blizzard are the police or other emergency responders.
For helpful tips on general winter driving, check out
this list put together by our friends at Car Talk.
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100% of BWC Staff Surveyed Agree That You Should Take Our Membership Survey
Sure, We Only Asked our President -- but Still, Numbers Don't Lie
We love hearing from our members. You know, thank you cards, thank you gifts, award nominations...any token of appreciation, really. We also understand that our members are exciting and busy people who can't always
remember to visit the website to send us an email with their feedback. So, we've drawn up a
survey to let you get it all out in one place.
In addition to providing our members with an easy opportunity to comment on their experiences with our services, our
survey is designed to collect data on how our customers feel about the environmental and social responsibility issues that relate to the Club's operating mission. After all, open communication is essential to maintaining a healthy
relationship. We hope you know that we're listening. Your needs are important. Once we have our results, we're excited to use them in planning and developing new membership services and online features.
The
survey shouldn't take any more than 15 minutes to complete, and we know that all of our non-businesspeople members still resent not being able to respond to our
last survey in November. So what's 15 minutes, right? Now's your chance to let us know what you think!
The current
survey is, however, only to be completed by Better World Club members, present or past. If you're not a member and really can't wait to get in on the question answering fun, there's no better time to
join! And do it soon, because we won't be collecting data after January 24th, 2011.
Thanks for your help! We're sure you'll like the future even better.
Take our membership
survey now!
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Read Last Issue's Top Story:
- Better World Club Helps Fight Global Warming...er...Weirding
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With the Senate Debating Filibuster Rules We're Wondering: Do We Need to Break up California to Fix Democracy?
This article, by BWC President Mitch Rofsky, originally appeared in the Huffington Post
Many Democrats are recognizing that the federal government is broken and are lining up to "fix" the Senate filibuster. Some want to reduce the cloture requirement to 55 Senators. Others want to do
away with the filibuster entirely.
There's only one problem: many Democratic Senators are reluctant to change the rule.
Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), for instance, favors the filibuster, which he used to protect Oregon's "Death With Dignity" law when it was under attack by a Republican Congress.
Unfortunately, this reflects an even bigger problem. The fact is the federal government isn't "broken" because of the filibuster rules. It's broken because of its two Senators per State structure, regardless of population, that is built
into the U.S. Constitution.
The filibuster aggravates this problem, of course. But, the filibuster just highlights that the Senate that made sense in 1787 no longer does. After all, the impact of the Senate's structure is much different than was anticipated more than
two centuries ago.
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 You Don't Need Bill Ayers to Tell You Which Way the Wind Blows...
But This Weather Underground Can Help You Prepare for Your Next Trip
All that rain in sunny California and then that huge blizzard in New York? We've been having some strange weather lately. And whether that's the result of global warming (
weirding?) or not, it's nice to know what to expect from the weather at your destination before a trip.
Weather Underground is a comprehensive website that combines your run of the mill meteorology with blogs, photos and videos, trip planning, and activity recommendations. Plus, the Weather Underground's interactive, searchable
WunderMap provides real time information from radar and weather stations across the world. Rain at your destination? Snowed in at the airport? You could spend your whole vacation playing with the map!
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