Tag Archives: NFL

AEG’s NFL Stadium: What’s In It For You and Me?

Posted on June 28, 2011 by

“Los Angeles has lost something. It no longer fields the kind of seasoned political leadership that inspires confidence. That’s a loss far greater than a football team.” The ink was hardly dry on those words of LA Times columnist Jim … Continue reading →

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Real LA News from the Virtual World

Posted on January 25, 2011 by

Blighted Land Meets (CRA) Sleight of Hand CD4 candidate Stephen Box, at City Watch LA, writes about Saturday’s LA Alliance of Neighborhood Councils meeting at which Community Redevelopment Agency official Jim Dantona defended City Hall’s attempt to save the agency … Continue reading →

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Transparency in LA: Public Stories Don’t Match Back-Room Deals at LAUSD, City Hall

Posted on January 9, 2011 by

The political power brokers in LA have long regarded elections in much the same way as the commissars did in the Soviet Union — a mere formality that creates a legal fiction to justify their reign of bumbling incompetence and … Continue reading →

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The Deal of the Century: Leiweke’s Pitch for an NFL Stadium Downtown

Posted on November 5, 2010 by

Honing his narrative Thursday for the big battles that await in the months ahead, super-salesman Tim Leiweke — the shining star of LA’s civic-business-political culture of the last decade — offered the city a deal so fantastically sweet that it … Continue reading →

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Welfare for Billionaires: AEG Wants $1 Billion in Your Money to Bring the NFL to Downtown LA

Posted on October 13, 2010 by

“This is simple. If the private sector is going to step in and spend a billion — and we’re going to have to do that,  that’s only way it’s going to happen — then shouldn’t we as a community spend … Continue reading →

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Talk, Talk, Talk — When WIll We Decide to Act?

Posted on January 4, 2010 by

The 21st century got off to a terrible start in its first decade what with unending wars and economic meltdown and I can’t say the opening acts of the second decade are all that promising. On Sunday, the National Football … Continue reading →

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