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Save NC's - A plan brilliant in it's simplicity! from Michael N Cohen on Vimeo. LA Neighborhood Council Coalition members voted overwhelmingly Saturday to seek to outsource the financial responsibilities of the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment to a non-profit, public service corporation.Dr. Dan Wiseman reported in a letter to t... |
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In the first six months after City Hall offered the Early Retirement Incentive Pprgram, 625 workers have actually retired with pensions averaging more than $1,000 a week with 32 of them getting pensions in excess of $100,000 a year, according to records obtained by OurLA.org.On June 26, 2009, the Mayor and City Council approved enhanced pensions wi... |
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 Dear Friend:As you know, the City of Los Angeles faces a budget shortfall of nearly $208 million, and we expect it to exceed $400 million next year. This is the most serious situation we have faced in 75 years and without drastic steps, the City is threatened with bankruptcy. We cannot allow that to happen.As the City Council and the Mayor consider the Three-Year Financial Sustainability Plan, we will make the most difficult decisions that any of us have faced. Cutting services and laying off employees are the last steps that any of us want to take.But bankrupting the City is not an option. The bankruptcy courts would force the City to implement even more drastic cut... |
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 http://www.montereyherald.com/business/ci_14348275?source=rss Tara Kolla fancied herself a green thumb-turned-green businesswoman when she planted an organic flower plot in her yard and sold poppies, sweet peas and zinnias at the local farmers market. For her neighbors, it was an eyesore. Where Kolla saw her efforts as creating a lush sanctuary, her neighbors witnessed dusty pots, steaming compost, flies and a funky aroma on their tiny cul-de-sac in Los Angeles. They complained to zoning officials — and prevailed. Kolla and other urban farmers are fighting back by challenging city halls across the country to rewrite ordinances that govern residential gar... |
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 A recent complaint about the behavior of the president of the Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council (DLANC) has brought to light a gaping hole in procedures for upholding ethical standards for the body, which operates with by-laws that allow members of its executive committee to oversee the process of investigating any grievances against them.“That part of the system is very weak—we didn’t anticipate this, so we have to build something citywide,” according to B.H. Kim, general manager the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment (DONE), a city agency established to oversee the 80 or so Neighborhood Councils throughout Los Angeles.Kim told th... |
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 The members of the Hillside Village Property Owners Association, local neighborhood councils and residents associations will gather in front of Fire Station No. 16 on Saturday, January 30, 2010 from 10am-12 noon to protest a reduction in paramedic services for its community.The Los Angeles Fire Department has been closing fire companies and ambulances on a daily basis since August 6th, 2009 due to budget constraints imposed by the Mayor and City Council. The closures have been at the rate of 28 companies per day, for a total of 87 fewer emergency responders on duty each day. These closures have occurred without public knowledge.The Fire Chief recently sig... |
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 How does a girl raised by a single mom in low-income housing wind up with Masters Degrees in Business and Political Science and a job in the West Wing of The White House? Where does a 12-year-old drug dealer learn to clean up his life, finish school, and get out into the workplace? And what enables a girl with an unstable mother and absent father to find her voice, finish college and produce children’s television programming?They’ll all tell you it was The Virginia Avenue Project (VAP).For the last 18 years, this free, after-school program has combined long-term, one-on-one mentoring with the performing arts to help kids find the co... |
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 He’s b-a-a-a-ck! Doug McIntyre returned to Red Eye Radio on KABC 790 AM this morning. All last week he teased us on his Web site w ith: Stand-by for exciting news at the beginning of next week. Next week came early as the announcement was there Friday wh... |
Our city is facing the toughest economy we have seen since the Great Depression, and it will take a focused and concerted effort by all city leaders to balance our budget while continuing to provide key services that are essential to getting our economy back on tra... |
 I’m not going to bother regurgitating the headline news. I believe all of you know of the Mayor’s announcement to immediately lay off 1,000 employees. The bulk of these layoffs would come from the Engineers and Architects Associat... |
In television news parlance, they’re called “a-a-a-awe stories.”We’ve seen them countless times: Zoo babies, firemen rescuing puppies from a storm drain, or pulling a trapped horse out of a ravine. As viewers we say a collective “a-a-a... |
 The Coalition of Opponents to a proposed apartment complex at the Sepulveda VA in North Hills, CA has grown to over 3,128,000. Opponents who have issued resolutions in opposition to the project include California state and national American Legion representin... |
 In my previous missive regarding the business of child abuse in Los Angeles I briefly referenced two foster agencies as examples of corruption within the Agency Foster Care system including insight into how the Agencies manipulate and use their own Board ... |
 I wish conservatives would stop complaining about big government and start worrying about the real problem – small democracy. I wish we’d all worry more about our incredible shrinking democracy. It seems as if more and more decisions that should be mad... |
 The City of San Diego, like most California cities and other local agencies, such as the LAUSD, are facing the same financial crisis as the City of Los Angeles. In the case of San Diego, some uninformed people have proposed having the city declare bankruptcy as a d... |
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