Category Archives: The Valley

The Cheaters Game: The New American Morality

Posted on March 13, 2013 by

We live in a nation where we would rather commit national suicide than work together to solve our common problems so it should be no surprise that righteous people defend greed and indifference to the needs of others, Harvard students … Continue reading →

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Did 2JobBob Fix the State’s Finances? Is He Really Dynamic? Why Citizen Candidates Don’t Stand a Chance in L.A.

Posted on January 30, 2013 by

You can take the word of Henry Waxman like the word of God what with him being the sixth longest serving member of the current House of Representatives at 38 years during which America has seen near continuous war and decline … Continue reading →

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Don’t Forget Who Caused the Children’s Museum Fiasco: Make It the Museum to Public Accountability

Posted on December 20, 2012 by

Forgotten in the uproar over the latest lousy twist in the in the L.A. Children’s Museum tragedy is how it came to be built at Hansen Dam in the farthest north corner of the city instead of at the North … Continue reading →

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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 →

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2JobBob Will Stick the Poor, Sick and Kids with $3 Million Special Election Bill if He Wins Assembly and Council Races

Posted on October 8, 2012 by

For 2JobBob Blumenfield, two jobs won’t be enough. Surely even someone as politically powerful as the two-term Chairman of the California Budget Committee — where his “budgets usually turn into red ink the moment they’re signed,” according to LA Times … Continue reading →

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WHICH JOB BOB? Will 2JobBob Blumenfield Choose Tonight to Run for State Assembly or the City Council?

Posted on September 20, 2012 by

Don’t miss this chance to be part of an historic moment tonight when constituents and challengers pop the question to Assemblyman Bob “2JobBob” Blumenfield: Which job, Bob, State Assembly or City Council? Be on hand for the festivities at Canoga … Continue reading →

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My Sunday Column: It Always Comes Down to the Lesser of Two Evils … But It’s Still Better To Vote Than Not

Posted on August 12, 2012 by

“Whereas the San Fernando Valley Republican Club supports the conservative principles of limited government, lower taxes, fiscal responsibility, free enterprise, strong national defense and individual freedom … therefore, be it resolved, that the San Fernando Valley Republican Club will neither … Continue reading →

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THE MOST RUTHLESS GAME: Take It or Leave It — My Sunday Column

Posted on July 14, 2012 by

Here’s a challenge for all you NIMBYers, naysayers, malcontents, apathetics and ignoramuses to contemplate: Put yourself in the shoes of an elected official trying to do what’s best when the power brokers have given you the choice of getting nothing … Continue reading →

Posted in 2012 Election, 2013 Election, 2013 LA Elections, City Hall, Glendale-Burbank, Hot Topics, LA County, Los Angeles, The Valley, Transportation | 4 Comments

Battle of the Political War Horses: Transit Tax Measure R-2 with Your Future Quality of Life at Stake

Posted on July 10, 2012 by

Like two old war horses going to battle each other yet again as they have done so often for so long — Antonovich and Yaroslavsky, two county supervisors, politically untouchable, masters of the game of power. This time there is … Continue reading →

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