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Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said yesterday that today his office will release what it is says is all the information it has about just how many events the Mayor attended without having to pay for his tickets since he was elected Mayor in 2005.The Enterprise Report has uncovered additional events, not previously disclosed, in which the Ma...
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Police brace for fans marking first anniversary of Michael Jackson's deathIncreased security will be deployed at the family home in Encino, and access to the tomb site at Forest Lawn in Glendale will be limited. Law enforcement officials said they will follow an "event action plan" Friday intended to ensure peace and safety as fans mark the first a...
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 FRUGAL
FESTIVAL SUMMER SWAP: NOHO
PAC, NORTH HOLLYWOOD, JUNE 19, 2010
1-3 P.M.
North Hollywood, CA---The Frugal Festival Summer
Swap is
LA's biggest and best-ever clothing swap, with 300+ savvy shoppers
descending
on the North Hollywood Performing Arts Center for one day only to swap
designer
clothing, accessories, home decor, books, music & movies – all
curated by
national sustainable style and bargain shopping experts Julia Scott of
BargainBabe.com, and Amy Chase & Melissa Massello of
TheSwapaholics.com.
FEATURING:
300+ admission-paying attendees expected for the
day-long
swapReusable swap bags given to each att... |
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 Video: Putting down
organic roots in
Buttonwillow
Buttonwillow – A week ago, this plot of land in the
southwest corner
of the Central Valley, nestled against Elk Hills, was full of scrub
brush. The
land hadn’t been farmed in years. It couldn’t – a well had to be dug,
and a pump
and water tank had to be installed.
Now, with the flip of a switch on Saturday by Congresswoman Maxine
Waters
(D-California), water flows from a new well to a new tank, via a new
pump – all
of which came from donations. Even the land itself was donated – 85
acres total,
27 of which was tilled earlier this week in preparation for the weekend
grand... |
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 Broad Museum's scandalous math: A $7.7 million land gift to billionaire from broke Los Angeles City HallWhat can $1 a year get a billionaire in Los Angeles these days?Evidently, a property worth $7.7 million. According to a document obtained by the L.A. Weekly, that's the value of the prime downtown square footage near Disney Concert Hall that Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and others are secretly negotiating to rent for 99 years, nearly for free, to Broad for his foundation offices and an attached, but much smaller, art museum.Here's the truth, even though it's often unmentioned in media coverage of this touchy issue:The roughly two acres of land is owned by city taxpay... |
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 Neighborhood council leaders respond to memo urging them to fight
Villaraigosa’s budget proposals
While cautiously optimistic upon learning that they might be spared the budget ax, Westside neighborhood council members are not backing off their requests to have their yearly monetary funds left intact after recently receiving a memo from a high ranking Los Angeles city official.Special Assistant Jane Usher, who is a member of Los Angeles City Attorney Carmen Trutanich’s inner circle, sent an e-mail from her personal account April 21st urging neighborhood council leaders to resist the budget cuts that are being proposed by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.“This mayo... |
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 LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY ACTIVIST ACTION ALERT! WE CAN RAISE OUR VOICES TO BRING BACK THE VAN DE KAMPS COMMUNITY COLLEGE SATELLITE CAMPUS PROMISED BY THE LACCD BOARD OF TRUSTEES! It appears the Los Angeles Mayor’s office has pulled the unemployment programs out of Van de Kamps in the face of your e-mails and letters two weeks ago. Thank you for raising your voice. Now we must demand that the Los Angeles Community College District Board ask the State Controller and law enforcement officials to investigate the wrongdoing at Van de Kamps. The job will not be done until the wreckage at Van de Kamps is cleaned up by outside investigators. Can you help by sending a ... |
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 Editor's Note: The following item was written in part as a response to the conflict of interest charges brought against an LAUSD manager accused of funneling business from the district's school building efforts. For more information about the charges against Bassam... |
 Margaret Henrich of Northridge is most likely not alone in trying to
switch from DWP generated power to her own solar panel-produced
electricity.
She’s followed all the rules, jumped through all the required hoops and
paid her money, yet after three mont... |
 Last year, I was a leading partner and advocate in the creation of the Public School Choice motion, because I believed that this program was a critical vehicle for reform and represents one of the most significant efforts that the Los Angeles Unified School Distric... |
The following article, written by Paul Hastings
Partner Mitch Menzer and originally printed in the Stay
Current newsletter published by Paul Hastings, details the
institutional changes at the L.A. Department of City Planning—a
who... |
 They shoot from the lip without thinking about consequences. They react illogically and emotionally like a bunch of pubescent teens.They are the City Council who voted to boycott Arizona over its new immigration law, and twice in as many days, that ill conceived vo... |
 One possible ramification of the showdown between the DWP and the City Council over the $73 million transfer to the general fund could involve the SEC.Let’s not forget the status of the DWP’s registered publicly traded bonds were at the core of the dispute. C... |
 The draft ordinances are flying. Mayor Villabeutner’s Planning Department is on a mission to streamline the zoning code to make LA more business-friendly and make the city’s cash register ring. Mixed-use projects in R5 zones, floor area ratio averaging, and den... |
 Effective activism’s a long-haul process, not “save the earth in 30 days, ask me how.” But there are some principles that seem to reoccur for people addressing every kind of challenge from the Gulf Oil spill to inadequate funding for urban schools to how to d... |
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