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Don’t Despair, Don’t Leave Town (Yet) — There’s Still Time to Fight to Save LA, Starting Now with Campaign Finance Reform

Posted on April 4, 2012 by

EDITOR’S NOTE: Here’s a chance to stop being a victim. Get angry enough to work for change. Pass this on to your email lists and write the LA City Ethics Commission (ethics.commission@lacity.org) and demand major reforms in campaign finance laws for … Continue reading →

Posted in 2013 Election, 2013 LA Elections, City Hall, Community Activists, Hot Topics, Los Angeles, Uncategorized | 15 Comments

Friday Roundup: Roasting Shorty, Killing Wal-Mart, Acting Regionally, and Chatting about Money, Guns and Pets

Posted on March 23, 2012 by

City Maven Alice Walton provides more than you would ever want to know about the Herb Wesson roast last night at the Beverly Hilton — unless, she says, you ” love jokes about short men, strippers, the Korean community and … Continue reading →

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SoCal’s Water Wars and the ‘Secret Society’ — A Question of Transparency for Rate Payer Advocate Pickel to Probe

Posted on March 15, 2012 by

Call for Fred Pickel, call for Fred Pickel — time to get your Office of Public Accountability and Rate Payer Advocate to do something more in the public interest than just taking home your $20,000 a month salary and figuring … Continue reading →

Posted in City Hall, DWP, Hot Topics, Los Angeles, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

L.A. City Hall’s Perpetual Money Crisis: Next Year Just Keeps Getting Worse as the Bureaucrats Warned Long Ago

Posted on March 6, 2012 by

Do you remember when the economy crashed in October 2008 and how the city responded to what was certain to bring to a head years of overspending on sweetheart contracts with unions and contractors and gifts to the rich, years … Continue reading →

Posted in 2013 Election, 2013 LA Elections, City Hall, Hot Topics, Los Angeles, Uncategorized | 6 Comments

Fight Over Redistricting Heats Up: Will You Accept More of the Same or Work for Change?

Posted on March 4, 2012 by

On Saturday, March 3rd, the L.A. NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL COALITION reviewed the map (the core recommendation) prepared by the L.A. Redistricting Commission.  Councilmember Jan Perry and Redistricting Commissioner Helen Kim participated in a very detailed discussion of the map, reports LANCC … Continue reading →

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Stripped of Power over the Budget, Parks Opens a Public Dialogue on How To Empower Neighborhoods

Posted on February 29, 2012 by

EDITOR’S NOTE: Long-time Neighborhood Council activist Dr. Dan Wiseman attended Tuesday’s meeting of the Council’s Education and Neighborhoods Committee under new Chairman Bernard Parks who replaced Paul Krekorian. It was the first of four regional meetings that Parks called to … Continue reading →

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Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire — Who Put Wesson Oil on the Fires of the Anti-Democratic Redistricting Process?

Posted on February 17, 2012 by

The answer is simple enough: Andrew Westall, for six years assistant chief deputy aide to City Council President Herb Wesson before being anointed as executive director of the puppet City Redistricting Commission despite the objection of Councilman Bernard Parks. Parks’ … Continue reading →

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Why they’ve got it better in LA’s suburbs — My Sunday Column

Posted on February 12, 2012 by

Time flies faster the older you get, so it seems like only yesterday — not a year ago — that I was offered the opportunity to write a Sunday column for the News-Press & Leader and other community newspapers in … Continue reading →

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New Look and Website Upgrade: Feedback Requested

Posted on February 12, 2012 by

Thanks to my son Alfred, I’ve finally been able to get my blog upgraded and moved to Word Press which should eliminate a lot of the problems people have had with posting comments and I’ve had with spam and hacking … Continue reading →

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How Dangerous Are Unlicensed Drivers? Are Their IDs and Insurance Really Valid? Nobody Knows

Posted on February 6, 2012 by

About 2:30 a.m. last Friday, a car with six women aboard slammed into a tree at Florence and Halldale avenues in South LA, throwing five women from the vehicle and trapping a sixth, according to a City News Service report, which quoted Sgt. Norma … Continue reading →

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