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Undoing Bratton’s ‘Baghdad Strategy’ to Reduce Skid Row Crime

Posted on April 8, 2010 by

LA’s top law enforcement officers — DA, Sheriff and LAPD Chief — joined City Attorney Carmen Trutanich at Skid Row on Wednesday to announce they were going to use a gang injunction strategy to crack down on rampant drug dealing. … Continue reading →

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50 Reasons LA Is Bankrupt — Here’s One of Them

Posted on January 27, 2010 by

If you want to know why people have lost confidence in City Hall, here’s one of the reasons: Outrageous misconduct by city employees and officials that cost taxpayers millions of dollars with little or no accountability for those responsible. Take … Continue reading →

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Talk, Talk, Talk — When WIll We Decide to Act?

Posted on January 4, 2010 by

The 21st century got off to a terrible start in its first decade what with unending wars and economic meltdown and I can’t say the opening acts of the second decade are all that promising. On Sunday, the National Football … Continue reading →

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The Granny Flat Gambit: Vigilance and the Struggle for Self-Governance

Posted on December 19, 2009 by

“A people cannot have the consciousness of being self-governing unless they attend themselves to the things over against their doors.” — Benjamin Ide Wheeler. Those immortal words of the autocratic president of the University of California 100 years ago do … Continue reading →

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Coming Soon to Your Neighborhood: Granny Flats, Converted Garages, Houses Turned into Tenements

Posted on November 16, 2009 by

This may be the most desperate and despicable act yet by City Hall in its long war to eradicate the middle class from Los Angeles. They call it a proposed Accessory Dwelling Unit ordinance. That’s a phrase intended to obscure … Continue reading →

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Give ‘em Hell, Nuch — We Need a Bully at City Hall

Posted on October 26, 2009 by

City Attorney Carmen “Nuch” Trutanich took a beating last week in the press and at City Council for trying to solve the billboard mess created by City Hall over seven years. It’s a good thing he’s a tough guy from … Continue reading →

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Day Two: LA’s New World Order Full of Promises — Show Us the Money

Posted on July 2, 2009 by

You might have noticed the mayor in his inaugural address promised to give us all jobs, clean the environment, get traffic moving, get rid of gangs and crime and educate our children. He said nothing about actually running the $7 … Continue reading →

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