Monthly Archives: April 2012

The Hideous Ugliness of the Coliseum Deal — This Is As Dirty and Corrupt As It Gets Even in Chinatown

Posted on April 18, 2012 by

THE REBUILT COLISEUM PLAN THEY WON’T EVEN LOOK AT Let’s see if we got the facts straight: For 30 years, the LA Coliseum Commission made up of city, county and state elected officials and their appointees chased away two NFL … Continue reading →

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LA’s Budget: Next Year Is Going to Be Worse and So Is the Year After … and the Year After … and the Year After

Posted on April 17, 2012 by

City Administrative Officer Miguel Santana presented a dark and gloomy picture to the City Council Tuesday of the city’s finances with massive deficits totaling more than $1 billion over the next four years. In this the fourth year since the … Continue reading →

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Political Bad Karma: Their Past Actions Catch Up with Antonio and Nuch in Media Storylines

Posted on April 16, 2012 by

Antonio and the Budget Catastrophe The city budget crisis that has grown in the city budget catastrophe because of City Hall’s wretched leadership finally is found noteworthy today in Jim Newton’s LA Times column. Giving Antonio Villaraigosa credit for “some … Continue reading →

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County’s Frisbee Ban on Beaches — What Really Happened

Posted on April 16, 2012 by

Leslie Dutton’s Full Disclosure Network – the champion of restoring public access of TV in the city – caught onto the LA County Supervisors stumbling over what went viral around the world within hours: “Los Angeles bans Frisbees on the beaches.” The … Continue reading →

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The Burbank P.D. Cleanup: The High Cost of Purging Racism, Sexism and Nepotism — My Sunday Column

Posted on April 15, 2012 by

So many victims, so many lies, so much still hidden, so much of your money wasted, so much you need to know to finally be free of the sins of the past. If you think you can escape the consequences … Continue reading →

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On the Raymond Avenue Tragedy: A Heartbreaking Personal Story

Posted on April 13, 2012 by

By Leslie Evans USC and the nearby West Adams neighborhood where the double murder took place April 11 are still in shock. Police are hunting the cold-blooded killer in a widening manhunt, and a new wave of fear is settling … Continue reading →

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Is It Wrong for Gadflies to Compare the City Council to Nazis When They Act Like Fascists?

Posted on April 11, 2012 by

WARNING: DO NOT WATCH THIS VIDEO UNLESS YOU ARE PREPARED TO JOIN ARMS WITH OTHERS FOR THE PURPOSE OF OVERTHROWING THE GOVERNMENT OF THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES. DIRECTOR’S NOTES: Scene 1: Opening: Gadfly Michael Carreon — whose decent and mild-manner … Continue reading →

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Judge Nukes ‘Nuch” — City Attorney Loses His Own Case; Lacey Raises More Money, Jackson on the Offensive

Posted on April 10, 2012 by

Poor Carmen Trutanich, we loved him so because he wasn’t Jack Weiss and because he promised to be the “people’s lawyer” — now he’s just another bum who betrayed us. Oh, the inexorable laws of karma, why does anyone think … Continue reading →

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Benchmarking the Mayor’s Race: Can Any Candidate Light the Fire of Voters’ Passion? Can Any Actually Govern the City?

Posted on April 9, 2012 by

This is not a horse race as much as the media treats elections that way; it is a political campaign that promises to be as rough as any for mayor of Los Angeles since the ugliness of Yorty-Bradley contests. There’s … Continue reading →

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How much longer, Pasadena? The Killing of Kendrec McDade and the Road to Redemption — My Sunday Column

Posted on April 8, 2012 by

“How long? Not long, because no lie can live forever.” “How long? Not long, because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” Those were the words Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. thundered on the … Continue reading →

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