Monthly Archives: November 2010

Come on Tony Be the Hero, Help the Kids and Approve the Motocross/Skateboard Park

Posted on November 12, 2010 by

John Foley put his money — $850,000 of it — where his passion is but like so many has found City Hall anything but business-friendly.or easy to deal with. A general contractor who has been riding street and dirt bikes … Continue reading →

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Come on Tony Be the Hero, Help the Kids and Approve the Motocross/Skateboard Park

Posted on November 12, 2010 by

John Foley put his money — $850,000 of it — where his passion is but like so many has found City Hall anything but business-friendly.or easy to deal with. A general contractor who has been riding street and dirt bikes … Continue reading →

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Where’s Rudy? LA’s Half-Million Dollar Official and the Public Housing Scandal

Posted on November 11, 2010 by

City Hall can run but it can’t hide from its responsibility for the scandal they have ignored for so long in the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA), the agency that runs public housing programs. Long before … Continue reading →

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Blinking Garcetti Needs to Give Up and Kill the 1601 N. Vine St. Subsidized Office Project

Posted on November 10, 2010 by

Poor Eric Garcetti, he must just be mortified by his inability to ramrod through the gift of $4.6 million of public money to Hal Katersky’s Pacifica Ventures and his union partners in a planned 8-story, $57 million office building in … Continue reading →

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Get Informed, Get Involved: The Failure to implement LA’s Community Plans

Posted on November 10, 2010 by

Editor’s Note: The assault on planning rules that protect neighborhoods and require processes that give the public a voice is in his gear. The Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday will vote on a proposed ordinance that will fundamentally change how … Continue reading →

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Get Informed, Get Involved: The Failure to implement LA’s Community Plans

Posted on November 10, 2010 by

Editor’s Note: The assault on planning rules that protect neighborhoods and require processes that give the public a voice is in his gear. The Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday will vote on a proposed ordinance that will fundamentally change how … Continue reading →

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LA County’s Great Parking Meter Ripoff

Posted on November 9, 2010 by

It was a great day for a party at LA County’s Burton Chace Park at the end Mindinao Way in Marina Del Rey, the brilliant sunshine shimmering off the water, the masts of luxury yachts point skywards. Leslie Dutton’s Full … Continue reading →

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Stop the Nonsense: Public Needs Absolute Guarantee No Public Money Will Be Used for Downtown NFL Stadium

Posted on November 8, 2010 by

At the height of his power when the leadership of LA still was driven by a vision of greatness for the city as well as greed for themselves, Tom Bradley pushed through a 1978 Charter measure that barred the use … Continue reading →

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Stop the Nonsense: Public Needs Absolute Guarantee No Public Money Will Be Used for Downtown NFL Stadium

Posted on November 8, 2010 by

At the height of his power when the leadership of LA still was driven by a vision of greatness for the city as well as greed for themselves, Tom Bradley pushed through a 1978 Charter measure that barred the use … Continue reading →

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Would Little Aaron Shannon Jr. Still Be Alive If Parole Officials Had Done Their Jobs?

Posted on November 8, 2010 by

Editor’s Note: A march and rally will be held at 1:30 p.m. Saturday in El Sereno from 1974 N. Marianna Ave. to the 1800 block of Landsdowne Ave to demand an investigation of the Division of Adult Parole Operation and … Continue reading →

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