Tag Archives: Antonio Villaraigosa

CITY HALL SHOCKWAVE: Antonio Lied — He Knew about $1.2 Million HACLA Hush Money Payoff

Posted on December 8, 2011 by

UPDATE: Continuing its exclusive coverage of the HACLA Scandal, KCET’s SoCal Connected now reports that Ken Simmons, the interim head of the city’s housing authority, is resigning the post  at the Mayor’s request and returning to his old job as chief … Continue reading →

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With ‘No Due Respect’ for the Mayor, Free the L.A. 250 from Illegal Detention

Posted on November 30, 2011 by

UPDATE: Here is a letter to the editor of the Daily Journal submitted today by Oscar Winslow, president of the L.A. City Attorneys Association: Approximately 292 protestors were arrested during the Occupy LA sweep. It took 1400 police officers, many … Continue reading →

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Left, Right and Center All Agree: Downtown Stadium Shows the Failure of L.A. Leadership

Posted on November 2, 2011 by

Political Footballs: L.A.’s Misguided Plans For A Downtown Stadium          By JOEL KOTKIN, newgeography.com Over the past decade Los Angeles has steadily declined It currently has one of the the highest unemployment rates (roughly 12.5%) in the U.S, … Continue reading →

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City Hall — A World Without Consequences

Posted on November 2, 2011 by

You got to wonder how CBS-2 investigative reporter David Goldstein can keep a straight face when he confronts the city supervisor in charge of constructing the obnoxious six-foot high wall around the mayor’s Windsor Square mansion with the fact he … Continue reading →

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Occupy L.A. Has Seen the Enemy — Zuma Dogg

Posted on November 1, 2011 by

Leave it to Zuma Dogg to confront the Occupy L.A. protesters who have encamped on three sides of City Hall for a month when the cops and politicians won’t. At Zuma’s LA Daily Blog which promises “Performance. Parody.Politics.” the headline … Continue reading →

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Are You Ready to Rumble? Occupy LA vs City Hall

Posted on October 27, 2011 by

It seems like only yesterday, not three weeks ago, that City Council President and wannabe mayor Eric Garcetti welcomed the protesters of Occupy L.A. to camp out on the City Hall grounds and “stay as long as you need to…” … Continue reading →

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Opportunity Knocks for Occupy L.A. — The Problem Is City Hall, Not Corporations

Posted on October 26, 2011 by

Wake up, you evolutionary revolutionaries of Occupy L.A., you are dancing with the very people you say you despise — the panderers to corporate greed and union selfishness, the people who serve the 1 percent at the expense of the … Continue reading →

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City Hall’s Job Creation Fantasy: Whatever Happened to All Those Chinese Electric Cars?

Posted on October 24, 2011 by

BYD — the Chinese electric carmaker that City Hall promoted as a job creation engine for Los Angeles — finally opened today a year late and a lot of dollars short. “In April 2010 when the deal was announced, BYD … Continue reading →

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LA’s Leadership Vacuum: Feds Fixed the Cops, Now They’re Fixing the Schools

Posted on October 12, 2011 by

Antonio Villaraigosa promised that if elected mayor of the City of Los Angeles six years ago he would fix the schools. He tried taking over LAUSD but ran afoul of the law so he went to fat cats who wanted … Continue reading →

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Occupying Occupy Los Angeles: Local Community Activists Can Help Define City Issues

Posted on October 10, 2011 by

EDITOR”S NOTE: This column was written for Nina Royal’s North Valley Reporter monthly newspaper.which published it’s October edition today. Two weeks ago at the end of activist-organized Congress of Neighborhood Empowerment, the mayor offered his cheerleading analysis that the decade-old … Continue reading →

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