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The Future of LA Is in Our Hands — No Excuses for Failing to Vote for Reform...
In 2007, Wendy Greuel, Tom LaBonge, Bernard Parks, Herb Wesson and Greig Smith all ran unopposed in the March City Council primary — proof positive of the electorate’s hopelessness, defeatism and...
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The Census, Redistricting and Public DIscontent
If you think something big isn’t bubbling up in a groundswell of public discontent, you are just not paying attention. Under the headline today “As Scorn for Vote Grows, Protests Surge Around the...
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Two Op-Ed Takes on Occupy Los Angeles
EDITOR’S NOTE: I wrote these two columns on Occupy Los Angeles for the Daily News and for the News-Press & Leader, the LA Times community paper serving Glendale, Burbank and Pasadena. They were...
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Are You Ready to Rumble? Occupy LA vs City Hall
It seems like only yesterday, not three weeks ago, that City Council President and wannabe mayor Eric Garcetti welcomed the protesters of Occupy L.A. to camp out on the City Hall grounds and “stay as...
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Occupy L.A. Escalates Fight with City Hall
EDITOR”S NOTE: Here’s the latest posting by the Occupy L.A. movement, rejecting City Hall’s ultimatum to leave by Monday and re-focusing their demands on city issues, from restoring the South Central...
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Free Speech and Police Intimidation: Should the Mayor and Council Pay the...
The mayor and City Council welcomed Occupy L.A. to take over the grounds around City Hall without any limits on how long they stayed or how many protesters joined in the encampment so under their...
View ArticleOpportunity Knocks: A Grand Alliance for Neighborhood Power over Neighborhood...
The nation’s capital is stalemated by a destructive war of empty ideologies without regard to the welfare of the people. The state capital is hopelessly gridlocked by the same forces that put...
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Beutner Thumbs His Nose at Stench from City Hall
Smart, experienced, rich but self-effacing and very humorous — poor Austin Beutner still can’t get no respect from the MSM, the MainStreamMedia. His speech Thursday launching Town Hall L.A.’s program...
View ArticleAustin Beutner Learns a Hard Lesson about LA Politics
If Austin Beutner can’t do it, nobody can. Here’s a fabulously wealthy guy with a proven track record of success at everything he tried, a man who retired after he broke his neck in a cycling accident...
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Fuel for Thought: How LA Elected Officials and Their Staffs Are Taking Us for...
UPDATE: Are you keeping your eyes on them and reporting their abuses? Here’s one for you from a citizen paying attention: “Last night at little Tokyo a library worker st 8 pm buying pinkberry and...
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