Category Archives: Community Activists

My Sunday Daily News Column: 10 years later: How secession (almost) change the Valley

Posted on November 4, 2012 by

On the wall of my home office hangs a framed picture that I treasure as a symbol of the million or more stories I wrote or edited in my four decades as a newspaperman, a single front page dated May … Continue reading →

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Heads Up LA: 2JobBob Blumenfield Is a Cheater — Say No to the Measure J Slush Fund — Riordan’s Real Pension Reform

Posted on October 12, 2012 by

Here’s a few items you should pay attention to today: 2JobBob Blumenfield: Unethical & Illegal 2JobBob Blumenfield is the subject today of a formal complaint to the city Ethics Commission about using his huge war chest for his Assembly re-election … Continue reading →

Posted in 2012 Election, 2013 Election, 2013 LA Elections, City Hall, Community Activists, Hot Topics, Los Angeles, The Valley | Tagged , , , , , | 23 Comments

Beware Charlie Beck: Fallout from Police Riot at 2007 May Day Protest Stains Bill Bratton’s Reputation Once Again

Posted on October 10, 2012 by

EDITOR’S NOTE: Top Cop Bill Bratton was a public relations whiz, wrapping LA’s second-rate politicians and media around his nimble fingers — only the May Day 2007 police riot and his handling afterwards ever stained his reputation. The fallout from … Continue reading →

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The Truth About the Current Farmers Field Proposal — An Analysis by an Economic and Management Expert

Posted on October 6, 2012 by

EDITOR’S NOTE: On the day the City Council closed the deal on Farmers Field without knowing who they were doing business with, Quentin Fleming — author, management consultant and adjunct professor of managerial decision-making and strategic planning at USC’s Marshall … Continue reading →

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AEG MOVIE ACT 4: “LA — Open for Business Or Up for Sale”

Posted on October 2, 2012 by

And the Oscar for political theater goes to … Tim Leiweke, president and CEO of Anschutz Entertainment Group for a brilliant performance running circles around LA’s politicians and bureaucrats and bamboozling the public with a fantasy of football, jobs and … Continue reading →

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AEG MOVIE ACT 3: “LA — Open for Business Or Up for Sale”

Posted on October 1, 2012 by

The silence of the sheep was almost deafening throughout the two years of pretend negotiations between City Hall and AEG over an NFL stadium. A handful of activists with various concerns like Joyce Dillard saw it through the whole course … Continue reading →

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AEG Movie Act Two: “LA – Open for Business Or Up For Sale”

Posted on October 1, 2012 by

Hooray to the producers, directors, writers (whoever they are) for a masterpiece of political propaganda in the televised finale to the greatest steal in the history of Los Angeles – at least since the water that made all this possible … Continue reading →

Posted in 2013 Election, 2013 LA Elections, City Hall, Community Activists, Hot Topics, Los Angeles, NFL Stadium | 9 Comments

AEG Movie Act One: “LA — Open for Business or Up for Sale”

Posted on September 30, 2012 by

The first thing you need to understand about government in America today is that the public story has nothing to do with what is really going on behind the scenes in the political back rooms. That’s why all these politicians … Continue reading →

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My Sunday Column: Fun and Games at the MTA — Why Is It So Hard Just To Do What’s Right for the People?

Posted on September 29, 2012 by

In the climactic scene of director Ivan Reitman‘s 1993 political satire “Dave,” President Mitchell (Kevin Kline) tells a joint session of Congress he lost his way, forgot his job was to make people’s “lives a little better…care more about you than … Continue reading →

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A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Making of the AEG Movie: “Los Angeles — Open for Business or Up for Sale?”

Posted on September 29, 2012 by

Councilwoman Jan Perry’s committee to sell the public on the Farmers Field/Convention Center deal met for the last time Monday to provide the stage for a dress rehearsal before the climax to the show that would come on Friday in … Continue reading →

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