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CRA UPDATE: City Lays 3-Minute Egg Worth 100s of Millions of Taxpayer $$$…City Attorney Silent

Posted on March 17, 2011 by

By MIKI JACKSON, HollywoodHighlands.org This morning the CRA turned City Hall into the .99 Cent Only Store by giving $100s of millions in real property to the City for $1.00. This was another in a series of hush-hush meetings to hide money from use for … Continue reading →

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SOUND THE ALARM: Protest CRA Action

Posted on January 14, 2011 by

EXTREMELY URGENT ACTION!! CRA transfer of $884 million to City to avoid governor’s budget cuts YOUR ACTION IS NEEDED BY 8:30 am THIS MORNING or as soon as possible ACT NOW!: Please cut and paste this alert immediately to your … Continue reading →

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Cheap Dates: How The City Council Looks After Their ‘Friends’

Posted on January 12, 2011 by

It pays to pay to have friends in high places like Janice Hahn. And it pays to pay friends of people in high places like Janice Hahn. Just ask Gambol Industries, a company that wants to build a shipyard in … Continue reading →

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Trutanich Calls for Reform of Neighborhood Council Elections

Posted on October 29, 2010 by

While the CIty Council ran circles around Jose Huizar’s “Voter Bill of Rights” on Friday, City Attorney Carmen Trutanich was proposing how to reform the Neighborhood Council election process to give the system more legitimacy. With the deadline for action … Continue reading →

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How Good Works Turn into Dirty Deals at City Hall

Posted on October 20, 2010 by

Back in July, Nikki Finke’s Deadline Hollywood ran a nice little item about how Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa pulled off a coup and got Warner Bros. to screen nine popular kids’ films in 24 city parks as part of his “Summer … Continue reading →

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Pershing Square and the City Garage Deal: 16 Minutes to Decide, 50 Years of Shame

Posted on August 2, 2010 by

It took the Board of Commissioners of the Recreation and Parks Department just 16 minutes to sell out the public interest Monday and trash the City Charter at a special meeting with little advance notice.. Not bad for a few … Continue reading →

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Pershing Square Dilemma: Parking $53 Million in the Budget Despite Cloud Over the Deal

Posted on May 17, 2010 by

They call it their “gold in the gutter” — the pennies, dollars and millions the City Council is using to paper over the massive budget deficits they created without actually reducing spending. As the Council gets closure on its latest … Continue reading →

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Trutanich Explodes over Mayor’s Budget

Posted on April 22, 2010 by

In a devastating six-page letter Thursday afternoon, City Attorney Carmen Trutanich   accuses Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa of “a remarkable lack of leadership and imagination,that puts “public safety and the protection of taxpayer dollars at substantial risk.”Responding to the mayor’s budget proposal … Continue reading →

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Will Success Spoil Carmen Trutanich?

Posted on June 8, 2009 by

Some people are worried his election will go to Carmen Trutanich’s head. Others are asking, “What’s all this talk about Nuch already turning into an unapproachable <expletive>?” Then, there’s the matter that goes before the City Council on Tuesday to … Continue reading →

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The Poverty of Ideas and Politics of Poor Jack Weiss

Posted on April 17, 2009 by

Poor Jack Weiss wants to be City Attorney so bad he’s blindly done the mayor’s bidding for four years and groveled before developers to raise campaign cash. Trouble is he wants the job alright, he just doesn’t want the work … Continue reading →

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