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Bye Bye Nahai — A Symptom of DWP’s Power Outage

Posted on September 3, 2009 by

For the second time in six months, DWP’s demand for a blank check for billions of dollarsfrom ratepayers was rejected. Back in March, voters repudiated the phony Measure B solar plan that wasn’t a plan. On Wednesday, the reprocessed Measure … Continue reading →

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Measure B By Any Other Name Is Still a Blank Check for Defrauding the Public

Posted on August 19, 2009 by

There’s a fundamental difference between a publicly-owned utility like Southern California Edison and a municipally-owned utility like the LA Department of Water and Power. You can guess which utility is more open about what’s doing, more accountable to the public … Continue reading →

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Who’s Lying, DWP or the Mayor? Who’s Paying — Don’t Ask

Posted on August 11, 2009 by

From Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s second inaugural speech, July 2, 2009: “Moving forward we’re aiming to get 40% of our power from renewable sources by 2020 and go 60% carbon-free by the end of the next decade. “Today, I am directing … Continue reading →

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Drought Busters Report: Guess Who Was Wasting the Most Water in LA

Posted on July 27, 2009 by

If the DWP is to be believed — always a risky proposition — then we know who the worst water waster in town is: The City, of course. According to today’s report from the DWP on the first month of … Continue reading →

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Contempt for Voters: DWP, Mayor Ignore Rejection of Measure B

Posted on April 13, 2009 by

“A proprietary department of the City of Los Angeles, the Port is self-supporting and does not receive taxpayer dollars.” — April 2, 2009 press release from the Port of LA announcing the DWP will give a “$3.5 million up-front cash … Continue reading →

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Scandal City: Betraying Kids, Ripping off the Public, Going Broke . . . LA’s Bad Karma

Posted on April 2, 2009 by

“Padilla, now a state senator, did not return phone calls Thursday” — Daily News. The fiasco of the LA Children’s Museum is now visible for all to see, a tragedy that began with then City Council President Alex Padilla’s demand … Continue reading →

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Save David Nahai’s Job — “Greenwashers” Rally for Their Pal, Not for the Environmental Cause

Posted on April 1, 2009 by

Whether or not they believe in some imminent environmental doomsday, just about everybody “gets it” that we have to stop wasting water, polluting the air and exhausting the planet’s resources.   It’s taken a long time but the environmental movement … Continue reading →

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Thus Spake Brian D’Arcy: Nahai’s Kiss of Death

Posted on March 30, 2009 by

“Truthfulness (is) the highest virtue; this means the opposite of the cowardice of the “idealist” who flees from reality…” — Friedrich Nietzsche. Sounding a lot like the German philosopher who believed God is dead and man as supermen must reign … Continue reading →

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Measure B, the Aftermath: Nahai’s Super Ego and the Role of Fall Guy

Posted on March 21, 2009 by

In a city that worships at the Temple of Ego, DWP GM David Nahai is a shining superstar — if a giant image of him flashing these days on digital billboards along Sunset Boulevard qualifies for entry into the Pantheon … Continue reading →

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Point/Counterpoint on Measure B: Who Do You Trust?

Posted on February 11, 2009 by

The Department of Water and Power launched the nattion’s largest solar energy initative back in 1999 under S. David Freeman but by 2002  it was exposed by City Controller Laura Chick as nothing but a fraud (solar-audit2002cover.pdf) that had wasted … Continue reading →

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