Monthly Archives: August 2011

EXPOSED: The Ethical Sewer We Call City Hall

Posted on August 17, 2011 by

If you don’t understand yet just how corrupt to the core City Hall is, you are beyond the reach of reason. If you do glimmer that something is rotten at City Hall, then what they did today in terms of … Continue reading →

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Standing Up for Good Government: City Hall’s Bus Bench Fiasco

Posted on August 17, 2011 by

EDITOR’S NOTE: The City Council on Tuesday, after a lengthy debate that limited the public to one-minute comments, delayed a decision until Friday on a new bus bench contract. This is just the latest fiasco of City Hall’s gross mismanagement, … Continue reading →

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Reinventing Antonio: Mayor Who Sold Us Out to RIch and Powerful Declares Himself Progressive

Posted on August 16, 2011 by

What a joke, Antonio the political chameleon is once again changing his stripes. Only Antonio Villaraigosa would have the audacity to go to Sacramento today to audition his new act as the political progressive he once pretended he was in … Continue reading →

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‘Battle For Brooklyn’ — How Politicians and a Developer Trashed a Neighborhood for an Arena

Posted on August 15, 2011 by

A fabulously rich developer with powerful political connections promises to build a sports venue that will create tens thousands of jobs and spark an economic revival of an entire downtown. It may sound like what Denver billionaire Phil Anschutz and … Continue reading →

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Ronnie’s Rants: The Week in Review in Print and on the Radio

Posted on August 14, 2011 by

EDITOR’S NOTE: Here’s links to radio comments I made last week, mainly on AEG’s downtown stadium deal, on Warren Olney’s “Which Way LA?,” my regular Wednesday midnight chat with KRLA 870AM talk show host Kevin James and on the “Off the … Continue reading →

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LA Times Discovers: ‘We Are A Third World City’

Posted on August 11, 2011 by

Editor’s Note: No institution in Los Angeles bears more responsibility for the city we have become than the LA Times — escept for the political, business, labor and civic leadership which it has cultivated and supported for its own purposes. … Continue reading →

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Tim Leiweke Says Thank You L.A. — New Questions about Bloated City Revenue Claims

Posted on August 11, 2011 by

Hi ——, As I’m sure you’ve heard by now, the Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously on Tuesday to approve the memorandum of understanding on Farmers Field and the New Hall for the Los Angeles Convention Center. I wanted to … Continue reading →

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City Hall Finds the Answer to Budget Woes: Higher Taxes

Posted on August 10, 2011 by

With the “non-binding” football stadium deal signed, sealed and delivered on time to meet the ultimatum from AEG’s Tim Leiweke, the City Council moved on Wednesday to protecting the Community Redevelopment Agency’s funding to subsidize more downtown luxury hotels and … Continue reading →

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CORRECTION: Huizar Wasn’t AWOL 13 Times in 2 Months — He Was Absent 6 Times, Late 7 Times

Posted on August 9, 2011 by

I was wrong.  Jose Huizar was not absent from City Council meetings half the time since June 1 — 13 absences in all — based on my unofficial tally from looking at voting records votes day by day and seeing … Continue reading →

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The Lies That Blind: The Truth about AEG’s Stadium, the Convention Center and City Hall

Posted on August 9, 2011 by

UPDATE 2:10 p.m.: John Semcken, Vice President Majestic Realty and the man in charge of the alternative NFL stadium plan in the City of Industry, just released a statement about the City Council’s decision: “Our stadium proposal will generate more money, … Continue reading →

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