Tag Archives: City Hall

Fuel for Thought: How LA Elected Officials and Their Staffs Are Taking Us for a Ride in City Cars

Posted on May 23, 2012 by

UPDATE: Are you keeping your eyes on them and reporting their abuses? Here’s one for you from a citizen paying attention: “Last night at little Tokyo a library worker st 8 pm buying pinkberry and parking the city car in … Continue reading →

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Austin Beutner Learns a Hard Lesson about LA Politics

Posted on May 11, 2012 by

If Austin Beutner can’t do it, nobody can. Here’s a fabulously wealthy guy with a proven track record of success at everything he tried, a man who retired after he broke his neck in a cycling accident and decided at age … Continue reading →

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Beutner Thumbs His Nose at Stench from City Hall

Posted on January 20, 2012 by

Smart, experienced, rich but self-effacing and very humorous — poor Austin Beutner still can’t get no respect from the MSM, the MainStreamMedia.  His speech Thursday launching Town Hall L.A.’s program for mayoral candidates outlined how he would get “Los Angeles … Continue reading →

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Opportunity Knocks: A Grand Alliance for Neighborhood Power over Neighborhood Issues

Posted on December 15, 2011 by

The nation’s capital is stalemated by a destructive war of empty ideologies without regard to the welfare of the people. The state capital is hopelessly gridlocked by the same forces that put self-interest and special interests ahead of the public … Continue reading →

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Free Speech and Police Intimidation: Should the Mayor and Council Pay the Bill for Occupy L.A.?

Posted on December 5, 2011 by

The mayor and City Council welcomed Occupy L.A. to take over the grounds around City Hall without any limits on how long they stayed or how many protesters joined in the encampment so under their doctrine of full cost recovery … Continue reading →

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Occupy L.A. Escalates Fight with City Hall

Posted on November 25, 2011 by

EDITOR”S NOTE: Here’s the latest posting by the Occupy L.A. movement, rejecting City Hall’s ultimatum to leave by Monday and re-focusing their demands on city issues, from restoring the South Central Farm to a moratorium on foreclosures. Click here to … 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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Two Op-Ed Takes on Occupy Los Angeles

Posted on October 9, 2011 by

EDITOR’S NOTE:  I wrote these two columns on Occupy Los Angeles for the Daily News and for the News-Press & Leader, the LA Times community paper serving Glendale, Burbank and Pasadena. They were both published on Sunday. Occupy L.A. Shows Vitality … Continue reading →

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The Census, Redistricting and Public DIscontent

Posted on September 28, 2011 by

If you think something big isn’t bubbling up in a groundswell of public discontent, you are just not paying attention. Under the headline today “As Scorn for Vote Grows, Protests Surge Around the Globe,” the New York Times examines the … Continue reading →

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The Future of LA Is in Our Hands — No Excuses for Failing to Vote for Reform of City Hall

Posted on February 28, 2011 by

In 2007, Wendy Greuel, Tom LaBonge, Bernard Parks, Herb Wesson and Greig Smith all ran unopposed in the March City Council primary — proof positive of the electorate’s hopelessness, defeatism and apathy. Only 7 to 13 percent of registered voters … Continue reading →

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