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VIDEO REPORT: The Public Story on $3 Billion Street Repair Scheme That Has Nothing to Do with the Real Story

Posted on January 10, 2013 by

Listen closely to the hot air and cold-blooded lies that rookie Councilmen Joe Buscaino and Mitch Englander spewed out at Wednesday’s meeting to win support for the largest bond issue in the LA history — a $3 billion property tax … Continue reading →

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A New Deal for L.A. — City Workers Pay the Bill for Their Pensions and Health, We’ll Pay to Fix Our Broken Streets

Posted on January 8, 2013 by

The youngest and newest members of the City Council — both cops of a sort hailing from the sprawling city’s farthest extremes with the safest seats in town — were ordered to step forward as sacrificial lambs with yet another … Continue reading →

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The State of Apartment Living in LA: Housing Code Violations Found in 90 Percent of All Units

Posted on June 21, 2012 by

Digging around this week in videos of Paul Krekorian’s Budget Committee hearings last month, I stumbled across this discussion with Housing Department officials about code violations in the city’s nearly 800,000 apartment units. The committee’s interest spurred by Mitch Englander … Continue reading →

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Pulling the Plug on Public Access to Save $20,967 — What Are You Going to Do About It?

Posted on June 19, 2012 by

Back in 2003 when Mitch Englander was his chief of staff, Councilman Greig Smith, with support from Janice Hahn, proposed creating a network of video conferencing stations with fax machines and computers available for ordinary citizens to communicate with City … Continue reading →

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$3 Million for the Occupy LA Encampment: ‘Who’s Going to Pay for This?’

Posted on December 27, 2011 by

As silent as the sound of one hand clapping on the subject since the Occupy L.A.evictions from City Hall, Ex-President of the Council Eric Garcetti — the wannabe high priest in what he calls “this Temple of Democracy” — wants … Continue reading →

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Director’s Commentary on the ‘Temple of Democracy’

Posted on October 16, 2011 by

EDITOR’S NOTE: It was self-indulgent but I thought the movie I made from Friday’s City Council session which featured a long debate that depended on what the meaning of the word ‘local’ is — the city or the county — … Continue reading →

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Watch This Movie — Write Your Own Script

Posted on October 15, 2011 by

I will publish my script on Sunday.

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Real L.A. News from the Virtual World: Mitch the Radical, Parole Breakdown, DWP Bullies

Posted on March 22, 2011 by

The Radicalization of Councilman-elect Englander: Power to the People,  Reform the City Charter, Throwing Officials Under Buses It’s hard to believe this is the same Mitch Englander who got elected to succeed his boss Greig Smith just a short time … Continue reading →

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