Tag Archives: solar energy

Beutner’s Agenda: No Power Rate Hikes, Less Money for Solar, Recyled Water

Posted on June 14, 2010 by

For all his dismissive talk about “moving forward…not looking back,” Austin Beutner’s DWP budget proposals appear to be an attempt to start cleaning up the past and restoring trust in a rogue agency that has lost all credibility. Billions of … Continue reading →

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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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Antonio and DWP Want Your Money, not Solar Energy — There Is Another Way That’s Affordable

Posted on April 14, 2010 by

My wife and I have talked for years about putting solar panels on the roof of our small Valley floor bungalow, at least she has. It would complement her organic farm in the front yard and her cactus garden in … Continue reading →

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Measure B All Over Again — But This Time You Won’t Get to Vote

Posted on September 13, 2009 by

An aging pipe burst and water gushed down Coldwater Canyon, causing disruption for a week as city officials demanded answers from Department of Water and Power officials to assuage angry residents. “We have an aging infrastructure–the pipes underground are not … 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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Selling LA: The Pitchman, The Promotion and The Profiteering

Posted on July 25, 2009 by

What’s happening to LA is a crime but don’t count on anybody go to jail. The game is fixed. The street furniture deal is one of the scandals that goes back a few years when they let a greedy private … 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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