Tag Archives: Measure B

There Is No Joy in City Hall — Mighty Tony Has Struck Out

Posted on April 23, 2010 by

    Mighty Tony at the Bat     From a million throats and more there rose a lusty yell;    It rumbled through the Valley, it rattled in the basin;    It knocked upon the mountain and recoiled out to the east,    For … Continue reading →

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DWP’s Week That Was — Burst Water Mains, Blank Checks and Measure B Revisited

Posted on September 8, 2009 by

Sometimes, the threads of the news come together so elegantly you’d think there was an invisible hand at work making sense of it all. At least that’s my experience from time to time over the years.Take the fact that last … 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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A Blogger’s View: That Was the (Fiscal) Year It Was — City Hall’s Failure Reaches New Heights

Posted on June 30, 2009 by

“We’re not going to allow an election to impede the future, to impede what we have to do in the city.“  — Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, June 29, 2009, on his commitment to go ahead with the solar energy plan owned … Continue reading →

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The Green Machine That Ate LA — DWP Goes Solar Without Sunlight

Posted on June 5, 2009 by

Time’s up for the DWP to lay out in detail with cost estimates, timetables and implementation strategy its proposal to make LA the greenest city in the nation. Or at least the deadline would have arrived if voters had not … 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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Money, Power and Green Energy — Which Way for the Environmental Movement?

Posted on March 26, 2009 by

“When something that should be very popular doesn’t pass, it is a wakeup call to the mayor and the City Hall establishment. There was something that went on that the mayor and others need to look at and understand. There … 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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We Beat City Hall — We Can Change LA Working Together, Yes We Can

Posted on March 19, 2009 by

The Highway Patrolman’s red lights were flashing as I stood outside my car just across the border into Arizona Thursday night waiting for him to write the ticket when I heard the “tweet” alert. I reached for the cell phone … Continue reading →

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