Los Angeles Archives Digest
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December 29, 2007
The hiking trail leading from the Griffith Park ranger station on Crystal Springs Drive up to Five Points is now open, as is the "hogsback" trail that leads from there up to Mount Hollywood. Unfortunately, as I started hiking up the latter yesterday I screamed out at the top of...
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October 04, 2007
Anand Jon is a fashion designer who's been charged with 59 counts of sexual assault or rape involving women between 14 and 27 (link). The number of charges was recently raised from 46 in June, and he's now in jail. His lawyer says it's all fabricated. Meanwhile, on September 15th,...
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September 21, 2007
Apparently the City of Los Angeles may announce later today a settlement with former L.A. Fire Department fireman Tennie Pierce, who sued the department over supposed racially-motivated hazing that involved other firefighters putting dog food into his spaghetti. Story here, phone numbers to call if you're in the area here....
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September 10, 2007
See the picture. He later appeared on the Chabad telethon and supposedly broke into a dance. When not being mayor of Los Angeles, Tony Villar/Antonio Villaraigosa is a former leader of the racial separatist group MEChA as well as being a Hillary Clinton campaign co-chair....
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August 03, 2007
The Villarnovela starring Hillary Clinton campaign co-chair, Los Angeles mayor, and former MEChA leader Antonio Villaraigosa continues with at least two new episodes: Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa today sought to put the scandal surrounding his personal life behind him, one day after the Telemundo network suspended his girlfriend, newscaster Mirthala Salinas,...
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July 16, 2007
The Los Angeles diocese of the Catholic Church recently announced they were settling all outstanding civil suits in regards to the priest abuse scandal for $600 million. Now, L.A. County District Attorney Steve Cooley has released a statement [1]: "Today's massive civil settlement highlights the institutional moral failure of the...
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July 06, 2007
Former MEChA leader and Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa recently separated from his wife, and the reported reason was because he had a long-running affair with Telemundo newswoman Mirthala Salinas. She reported about him before she was taken off that beat several months ago, and Telemundo reportedly asked her a...
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July 01, 2007
Earlier today, I was driving through Griffith Park when I saw a very handsome, dashing, and intelligent fellow on a mountain bike. Recognizing the "Lonewacko.com" sign on the side of my car, he flagged me down and related the following tale: "I'm not proud of what I just did, but...
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June 08, 2007
This is usually the type of stuff we don't cover, but, from earlier this year: Apparently responding to blogger Luke Ford’s allegation that the Villaraigosas had split up, the mayor told the Times last night that the entire family — himself, Corina and the two teenage children — is living...
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May 16, 2007
[SEE THE UPDATE BELOW] According to this [1]: Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Speaker Fabian Nunez and radio host El Piolin are billed as participants in a Thursday procession and candlelight vigil for immigration reform at MacArthur Park. They gather at Immanuel Presbyterian Church at Wilshire and Berendo about 5:30 pm and...
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May 08, 2007
According to this, the ANSWER-linked Juan Jose Gutierrez - director of Latino Movement USA - is planning yet another illegal immigration march, this time for June 24 at the famous corner of Hollywood and Vine: "All of us here today are united in expressing in the clearest voice possible that...
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May 04, 2007
Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa rushed back from his supposed trade mission to Central America and Mexico to deal with the aftermath of the MacArthur Park mini-riot. Now, that he's back in our country, he's holding a press conference. While he says he believes in due process, he's implying that...
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April 05, 2007
From this: Suspected gang members who are in the country illegally and are arrested for even minor crimes could face quicker deportation under new policies unveiled Wednesday by the top two prosecutors in Los Angeles. City Atty. Rocky Delgadillo and L.A. County Dist. Atty. Steve Cooley said they are partnering...
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March 12, 2007
Visiting Southern California? Feel free to print out and refer to the following chart: This year's midwinter = late Spring (in Maine, but really dry) Two weeks ago = Spring Now = Summer Summer = Megasummer! Note: temperatures in the right side of each equation are PG (Pre Gore)....
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March 11, 2007
Somewhat out-of-control Republican Walter Moore is running for Mayor of Los Angeles, and he's looking for $150,000 so he can get into the debates. First example of something not quite being right: he can't even put up a website at the short form of his domain (MooreIsBetter.com); instead, it redirects...
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February 13, 2007
According to the press release here, Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa - a former leader of the racial separatist group MEChA - has announced that the City of Los Angeles will have free, citywide wireless internet by the year 2009. The city has a massive illegal alien population and a...
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December 13, 2006
The Anti-Defamation League, their Latino-Jewish Roundtable, and several other groups have convinced the Los Angeles City Council to sign the "Declaration of Los Angeles", a far-left resolution that claims to support human rights for "immigrants", but which is little more than a resolution in support of illegal immigration, couched in...
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December 03, 2006
From this: A string of gritty suburbs in the shadow of Los Angeles has produced a growing parade of public officials jailed for corruption, and prosecutors say illegal schemes on a scale more commonly associated with big Eastern cities have devoured tens of millions of taxpayer dollars. The latest to...
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November 22, 2006
Tony Castro of the L.A. Daily News (who seems to have a few skeletons in his closet) offers a long look at Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's psychological makeup and his mythogizing of his past. While it doesn't mention Tony Villar's radical past - including being a leader of the...
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November 20, 2006
Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa plans to veto the $2.7 million settlement that was to go to black firefighter Tennie Pierce, who claimed racial discrimination after other firemen played a prank on him that resulted in him eating two spoonfuls of dog food. Pierce's nickname was "the Big Dog", and...
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November 15, 2006
Tennie Pierce is a black Los Angeles firefighter who claimed that he was the victim of a race-related prank in which he was given a plate of spaghetti containing dog food. He ate two bites before he figured out what was going on. The Los Angeles City Council recently voted...
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November 10, 2006
Duke Helfand of the Los Angeles Times offers a hagiography of Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa in "Mayor to reap spoils of election victories". He has a vision "of an eco-friendly metropolis with less traffic, more affordable housing, new trees and perhaps a subway to the sea." And, Aztlan! Except,...
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October 17, 2006
Los Angeles' famous Griffith Park Observatory has been closed for renovations for a few years. However, it's re-opening tonight... but only for "special people". This dispatch filed by our Roving Bike News Team: I drove up Hillhurst behind a very, very slow older tour bus with Wyoming plates. It was...
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October 16, 2006
Judicial Watch has obtained some documents shedding more light on the "Academia Semillas del Pueblo" (a charter school approved and funded by the Los Angeles Unified School District) and their anti-American agenda. The more damning aspects are in the PDF file, including an interview with KABC's Doug McIntyre. Despite having...
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September 17, 2006
Debra J. Saunders reports on the attempts by Carl Olson of State Department Watch to try to get local Los Angeles-area agencies (mostly Westside/Malibu/Ventura) to use ICE's Basic Pilot Program to check whether someone can be legally employed. It might seem simple enough: these are legally-created entities, they should follow...
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August 13, 2006
Shown above, a Los Angeles Fire Department rescue helicopter awaits an apparent hiking accident victim in Los Angeles' Griffith Park. This is the helipad near the "Five Points" intersection; apparently the accident occured closer to the Observatory (probably on the "Hogsback" section) and involved a broken clavicle (neckbone). The...
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July 31, 2006
There's a video here featuring interviews conducated over the past decade concerning Los Angeles' illegal alien sanctuary law, aka "Special Order 40"....
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June 13, 2006
Earlier today various police forces evicted dozens of farmers from a 14 acre plot of land in South (Central) Los Angeles. Those resisting the eviction included a couple tree sitters, Darryl Hannah, Joan Baez, Danny Glover, Martin Sheen, Laura Dern, Tom Morello, Willie Nelson, Alicia Silverstone, and other washed-up or...
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June 07, 2006
Some charter schools are more equal than others, and the LAUSD has determined that an alleged Chicano separatist school is abiding by its charter and is able to continue operation: "They have followed the charter that they wrote originally," said Kevin Reed, chief legal counsel for the district. "What we...
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May 14, 2006
That S.F. Chronicle staff writer offers "Immigration rallies force L.A. mayor into political tight spot: Villaraigosa backs away from image as single-issue leader" In a long, late afternoon conversation in his office, Villaraigosa, 53, often pausing to collect his thoughts, said he fears that his conspicuous involvement may make him...
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May 01, 2006
I drove across Hollywood in record time. An intersection that's usually backed up a block or two was only backed up a half a block... I'm sure that the great majority of legal residents of Los Angeles would gladly pay an extra 10 cents for lettuce just to enjoy such...
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April 30, 2006
Antonio Villaraigosa, mayor of Los Angeles (Alta California), is swiftly backing away from the coming anti-illegal immigration backlash. As previously noted, he'll be out of town on Monday. And, while he supports the marches he wants students to stay in school. His latest pronouncements are that those foreign citizens who...
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April 20, 2006
One of the cheaper gas stations in central Hollywood is at $3.05; one of the perennially cheapest gas stations in the general area, the Arco at Riverside and Fletcher, is at $3.01. In far-away Beverly Hills, br'er Drudge is currently featuring a shot of gas at over $4.00. Meanwhile, and...
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April 15, 2006
In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, former MEChA leader Antonio Villaraigosa informs us about the response to his recent involvement in the illegal immigration marches: The letters and e-mails have been overwhelmingly negative, maybe 500 to 1, maybe a little more... But I think we're elected to do...
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April 01, 2006
The Los Angeles Times gives some background on the recent pro-illegal immigration student protests (one of which featured the Mexican flag flying over an upside-down American flag) in "Student Protests Echo the '60s, but With a High-Tech Buzz". You can practically smell the patchouli as the aging hippies at the...
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March 06, 2006
The San Gabriel Valley is a nice place, and much better than the more famous San Fernando Valley. However, it's a bit sleepy and there is no critical infrastructure there that I know of. Which makes this story quite a bit odd: As sheriff's detectives investigate last week's crash that...
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March 02, 2006
"Mayor Reconquista", aka Antonio Villaraigosa, supports Cardinal Roger Mahoney's call to disobey HR 4437 if it passes. Of course, both of them are lying or misinformed regarding the effects of that bill, but I guess the fact that it might affect his power base has clouded his judgement. Kinda like...
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February 07, 2006
There appear to be various artifacts from Los Angeles' landmark Ambassador Hotel available from eBay. I don't know which ones of them were legally obtained and which were not, so caveat emptor. Items available include postcards, mugs, and even piano keys....
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February 06, 2006
Lead by Eric Garcetti, the Los Angeles City Council has approved a resolution opposing "anti-migrant vigilantes" and supporting "immigration reform", i.e., a massive amnesty: NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, with the concurrence of the Mayor, that by the adoption of this Resolution, the City of Los Angeles hereby includes in...
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January 28, 2006
On the 24th, the Los Angeles Unified School District unanimously voted to rename Mt. Vernon Middle School (near Crenshaw and Venice) in honor of Johnnie Cochran. He attended that school as a lad: "This extraordinary, superb lawyer with movie-star celebrity status was an outstanding student at Mt. Vernon Middle School...
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January 27, 2006
Over the past several months I've posted a few entries about L.A. mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, and I've put "AVWatch" in the title to make it easier to find them (use the search box to the right). I recently discovered a site dedicated solely to keeping a close eye on the...
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January 26, 2006
From this: A long-standing order designed to restrict Los Angeles police from enforcing immigration laws does not bar officers from pursuing deported felons who have re-entered the country, Assistant Police Chief George Gascon told the Police Commission on Tuesday. The interpretation of Special Order 40 - the 27-year-old policy that...
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Maywood is a small (1.14 square miles), densely packed (28,000 residents), and almost exclusively Hispanic city southeast of Los Angeles. In fact, it's 96.3% Hispanic, with just 739 whites and only 43 blacks. Now: City Council in this predominantly Hispanic Los Angeles suburb has passed a resolution prohibiting local police...
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January 20, 2006
The municipal entity known as the City of Los Angeles is directly enabling illegal immigration by leasing a section of the parking lot of a new Van Nuys Home Depot from that store. They're paying $1 per year, and a non profit called the Youth Policy Institute will run it....
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December 14, 2005
The Milken Institute has released a study called the "Los Angeles Economy Project", which reports that nearly 680,000 workers in the region work in the underground, cash-only economy. And, nearly half of those are in Los Angeles alone. Needless to say, most of those involved are illegal aliens. And, this...
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December 12, 2005
At about 3:30pm today I saw a large, white, stationary object high in the Los Angeles sky. I was next to the Bird Sanctuary in Griffith Park at the time. I'm pretty sure this was too large to be a star or a planet, and anyway Venus is currently to...
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December 03, 2005
Apparently there's a (new) scandal brewing at the Los Angeles Times involving them allegedly helping to cover-up the murder of the Notorious B.I.G. (aka Biggie Smalls, real name Christopher Wallace). There are two parts to this scandal: first, the matter itself. Second, the fact that it's been ignored by the...
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December 01, 2005
Yesterday, several loads of students were bused to the central branch of the Los Angeles Public Library where they were held spellbound as various celebrities read the works of... Tookie Williams. This was part of a worldwide effort against the death penalty, and similar pro-Tookie events were held in other...
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November 29, 2005
Da, koneshno, comrades! Eric Garcetti now president soyuza Los Angeles-a! Byvshe: Eric Garcetti has blog....
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November 11, 2005
The Los Angeles Times has dropped Bob Sheer, and three guesses to who's picked him up... No, not the LA Weekly... No, it's not People's Weekly World either... Yes, that's right, HuffPost. In related news, the numbers of political cartoonists at papers appears to be about equal to the number...
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November 10, 2005
"Mayor Reconquista", aka Antonio Villaraigosa, was recently given short notice that he could appear at Rosa Parks' funeral. Now, if he were an average citizen, about the only thing he could do is try to get a last-minute flight from LAX or BUR. Needless to say, the former MEChA member...
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October 29, 2005
One of the subtitles to this story should be: "Los Angeles County experiencing wonders of massive illegal immigration, almost all of it from the Third World." This is also one of the causes: Assemblyman Keith Richman, R-Granada Hills... said that under former Govs. Edmund G. Brown and Ronald Reagan, infrastructure...
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October 14, 2005
The Los Angeles County Supervisors are trying to block pr0n being viewed on computers in County libraries. But, don't despair, as the LAPL is still progressive and has a pro-pr0n policy in effect. Get your pr0n there....
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Former presidential advisor Dick Morris has sent me an email, and I thought I'd share it with you. As you may know, my wife Eileen and I have just written a new book entitled Condi vs. Hillary: The Next Great Presidential Race. It argues that Hillary Clinton is the inevitable...
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October 04, 2005
According the Nikke Finke of the LA Weakly, the Los Angeles Times' phone solicitors are reading the following from a script when they call: I want you to know that we're bringing in a lot more conservative voices and conservative columnists. This "frankly shocked" Finke, as one might imagine. This...
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September 26, 2005
The L.A. Daily News offers several anecdotes of immigrants to Los Angeles not bothering to learn English: "English bypassed in L.A.". Koreans learn Spanish, Hispanics learn Korean, and all don't need to learn English: "To an outside person, it looks like something nice. There's an ethnic exchange going on. But...
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SaveTheSeal is trying to turn back the damage the ACLU did to the Los Angeles County seal. Please visit their site to find out where you can sign their petition. Signatures are needed immediately since the have to be turned in on Friday....
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September 14, 2005
Recently a Canyon Country (L.A.) paramedic was killed by an illegal alien driver. According to the CHP: [The driver] is an illegal immigrant who has been arrested a dozen times and was deported once to Mexico. He has been convicted of four felonies, drug charges, thefts and a count of...
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There's a proposed L.A. City ordinance that would require big box home improvement stores to have an attached center for day laborers. As previously discussed, the great majority of those workers are illegal aliens. There's a bit of an update in "Making a place for workers", but it doesn't have...
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September 13, 2005
The L.A. Times has forced out recently-demoted editorial page editor Michael Kinsley. He's issued the following voluntary confession: "...For whatever reason... [publisher Jeff Johnson] isn't merely uninterested in any future contribution I might make, but actively wants me gone. So I'm off, with some regret and some excitement, to the...
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Gosh, what could be causing the Los Angeles Unified School District to be in such a financial bind? This current story appears to have many culprits, including the beloved teachers' union. But, there's only so much money to go around, and any money spent on educating a citizen of another...
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September 12, 2005
Earlier today a massive power outage knocked out power to about half of the city of Los Angeles, as well as parts of the County, the Dog Trainer informs us. I know, I was there! Since I couldn't either blog or surf for midget pr0n, I decided to go for...
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September 05, 2005
In the past three weeks, two airplanes and a helicopter have crashed in the Long Beach/Los Angeles area. All three aircraft were towing advertising banners. The latest crash was today: ...Long Beach Fire Battalion Chief Jeff Reeb says the ad banner apparently became snarled when the Bell Jet Ranger helicopter...
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August 29, 2005
The L.A. Times reports in "Day Laborers, Cities Seek a Way That Will Work": ...Cities throughout California and around the nation are struggling to cope with the sheer numbers of day laborers, or jornaleros. Critics say the sites not only encourage people to come to the U.S. illegally, but also...
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August 22, 2005
Sure, being a leader with a racial separatist group was bad, and those Chicano Power handclaps in the California legislature were bad too, but Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has finally found something that's slightly not bad and that's worthy of his talents: The mayor of Los Angeles wants an...
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America's foremost immigration expert will be at the Los Angeles Public Library's Central branch in downtown L.A. on October 11, 2005. Click the link to make a reservation; if this is being held in the same room I think it is there's only limited seating. At some future date I'll...
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August 12, 2005
The previous post "A terrorist cell in Orange County, CA?" discussed a possible cell in La Habra, CA. John & Ken of KFI have been following up on this story after speaking with FOX News terrorism analyst John Loftus. First, they spoke with a local CAIR spokesman, who says that...
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Local Fletcher Blvd. businessman Luis Lopez reports via email: On August 11, 2005 the Atwater Village Neighborhood Council held its "special election" to fill 3 vacant positions on the AVNC Board, the governing body of our local "town government"... Yet after the email announcement declaring that there were only four...
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August 11, 2005
One of the more lunatic ideas to come out of L.A. involves our own Griffith Park, one of the largest urban parks in the world. In case you aren't familiar: it's hardly the wilderness, but there are actually large tracts of undeveloped land there, hills, hiking trails, and the like....
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August 10, 2005
According to Fox News' terrorism analyst: ...Al-Muhajiroun has offices in both New York and London. They were the parent organization, the Finsbury Mosque, of the subway bombings. Their leadership in New York was responsible for planning the subway bombings. What we're finding out is that they have a sister organization...
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August 01, 2005
The Los Angeles Times reports in "Anger Boils at Illegal Immigrants" about a meeting held Thursday of last week at Pico and LaCienega sponsored by Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson and the Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny. The confab was called "Blacks and Hispanics: Allies or Rivals?" The L.A. Times...
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July 25, 2005
Ah, the fine "liberals" of Atwater Village are fed up and they aren't going to take Home Depot pushing them around anymore. As previously discussed, HD wants to build a store at the old KMart building at San Fernando and Fletcher. Since they already have another HD two miles down...
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July 20, 2005
The previous post "Jose Pena should have just been deported" discussed the Watts man who was recently shot and killed by police during a standoff. His toddler daughter was shot and killed as well. Pena was using her as a human shield during the standoff. The Los Angeles-based Mexican media,...
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Los Angeles blogger, institution, gadabout, journalist, former pr0n producer, etc. Luke Ford is being sued, apparently for posting phone calls he received from a Hollywood producer. Details here. You can also see a copy of Ford's business card here. UPDATE: According to another site, LukeFord.net might be under a DDOS...
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July 18, 2005
I was chatting with a young lady driving her Prius earlier today at the gas station at Los Feliz Blvd. and Hillhurst. She told me her car gets 50 miles per gallon! If that's you, of if you're a Prius owner in Los Feliz or the greater Los Angeles area,...
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July 15, 2005
On July 10th, police shot and killed Jose Pena in Watts as he was engaged in a shootout with them. At the time he was using his toddler daughter as a human shield, and she was killed also. This has prompted some of the usual sleaze to support the shooter's...
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July 11, 2005
The Los Angeles Times' Hot Properties column has done some investigative journalism and wants to know why Oracle CEO and billionaire Larry "Lawrence" Ellison is buying up a bunch of properties in Malibu. In the past two years, Lawrence has spent $180 million for real estate in the beachside enclave,...
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July 05, 2005
Shockingly, I've recently received an email from the worthies at the Friends of Atwater Village. They're complaining about Home Depot's plans to build yet another store along San Fernando Road. This one would take the place of the old KMart building at Fletcher. Home Depot already has another store at...
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July 02, 2005
The Los Angeles Times has a few reports on the inauguration of Antonio Villaraigosa, and they also offer "Much Unsaid in Villaraigosa's Inaugural Talk". Summary: in his speech, AV had a lot of big ideas, but few details were provided and he's going to have a very difficult task making...
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July 01, 2005
The Los Angeles Times has a 7-screener entitled "Promises, Promises Could Cost L.A. Millions, Billions". $140 million to plant trees? To pay for all of his proposals, former MEChA member and current L.A. mayor Antonio Villaraigosa might propose a half-cent sales tax hike next year. That's not going to sit...
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June 17, 2005
In addition to yesterday's shake near Yucaipa (4.9 magnitude), there was an earthquake on Sunday in Anza (5.2). Not only are those two temblors just 25 miles apart, but Anza is 25 miles from the San Andreas fault, and the Yucaipa shaker was just 8 miles from that fault. And,...
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June 16, 2005
I'm going to go for a 4.5. EARTHQUAKE WATCH UPDATE: Preliminary results: 5.3 just north of Yucaipa (about 100 miles to the east of EQW HQ). Our Richter Reporters are standing by... [DEVELOPING: downgraded to a 4.9. Given the distance, my estimate was right on target. Plus, hours before the...
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June 08, 2005
There's a roundup of the events and associations that the Los Angeles Times and all other MSM sources refuse to cover here. I'd suggest sending that link to public *at* nytimes.com and onlinenewshour *at* newshour.org and ask them to cover the issues that the LAT, Newsweek, and all the rest...
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June 06, 2005
I just ran across the 5/18/05 Laura Mecoy article "Villaraigosa wins L.A. mayor's race", which contains this: For instance, he quickly renounced Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan, or MEChA, a controversial group he joined in college, and avoided the criticism Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante faced after he refused to renounce...
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June 01, 2005
What a strange, strange titular combination. Fernando Guerra is a Loyola Marymount associate professor and the director of the Center for the Study of Los Angeles at that school. He's also a pundit on Los Angeles politics, and he was apparently all over the TV, radio, and newspapers with his...
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L.A. City Councilman Ed Reyes has proposed a law that would require each new big box hardware store in Los Angeles to have its own day laborer's solicitation site. He didn't make the titular quote, but he might as well have. In the past, Home Depot has funded several such...
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May 22, 2005
This week's Newsweek focuses on racial power, specifically White Power. They cover recent elections won by white people, and suggest that, while White Power is great, in order to win future elections whites need to reach out to other races. Oh, wait! I got that wrong! This week's Newsweek features...
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May 19, 2005
Welcome to the first installment of Antonio Villaraigosa Watch, a feature that will highlight the thoughts of the new mayor of Los Angeles. Today's feature is "LA mayor-elect breaks with governor on civilian border patrols": Mayor-elect Antonio Villaraigosa said Thursday he opposes civilian volunteers patrolling the U.S.-Mexico border to discourage...
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May 16, 2005
Los Angeles mayoral candidate Antonio Villaraigosa gets some negative coverage from a surprising source in a surprising place. From Gregory Rodriguez' "Race Is His Magic Shield": In the absence of major policy differences between the candidates in this year's mayoral race, character has moved to center stage. The campaigns of...
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May 15, 2005
I used to have an acquaintance whose signature phrase was, "I'll be right back." He'd come back hours or days later. He was also an occasional actor, and I think he'd be perfect for a new round of Antonio Villaraigosa campaign commercials. As a preview of what a Mayor Antonio...
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May 14, 2005
And, it involves SVREP ("Southwest Voter Registration Education Project: Committed to educate Latino communities across the Southwest about the democratic process..."), Los Angeles mayoral candidate Antonio Villaraigosa, and the Chicano Studies Department at CSUN? I'm not going to repeat the supposed dirt here, and I want to stress this is...
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May 13, 2005
They endorsed him during the first round, and they've reiterated their endorsement in the run-off. Read "Credit L.A. mayor on safety, stability, housing" if you aren't convinced already that Hahn's the choice....
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May 12, 2005
I had no idea this was going on, but UCLA's Bruin Alumni Association has been going to Los Angeles mayoral candidate Antonio Villaraigosa's campaign appearances trying to get him to renounce the racial separatist organization MEChA. AV was president of the UCLA chapter of that group. There's much more on...
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May 10, 2005
I know most people don't like him for various reasons, many of which are unfair or trivial. However, even if you think Hahn is horrible I believe I can guarantee that Antonio Villaraigosa would be far, far worse. As has been pointed out many times, but, strangely enough, has not...
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May 07, 2005
Via email: The Hahn campaign received wonderful news this week when a voter survey showed the mayoral race tied with only a week-and-a-half remaining before election day. The Tyson Organization, at the request of the campaign, conducted a survey of 1,515 voters who represent those who will turn out for...
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April 29, 2005
In a very good article, Copley News Service wants to know "Why did Floridians give $179,000 to Villaraigosa?" It isn't exactly clear, but man this seems fishy: ...Villaraigosa received $179,000 from Florida contributors as of April 5, the end of the city's most recent financial reporting period, with one of...
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April 26, 2005
As previously promised ("1000 anti-Japan demonstrators. In Los Angeles?"), I visited Los Angeles' Chinatown earlier today to see the PRC flag that was recently raised there. The flag is flying over a non-descript two story building on Bamboo Lane, which is basically a one-lane alley connecting Hill and Broadway....
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April 18, 2005
Later today the Los Angeles Fishwrap-Enquirer-Times will be releasing their report on the fate of reporter Eric Slater, who wrote a story about hazing at Chico State. See "The L.A. Times got something wrong?" for the backstory. E&P reports on the latest developments: Word spread in the newsroom today that...
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April 06, 2005
Welcome to today's edition of "How not to write a press release." It features an emission from In Defense of Animals with the title "Activists Ask Jeopardy! Game Show Host Alex Trebec: 'What is wrong with keeping elephants at the L.A. Zoo?'" Los Angeles- On the heels of the first-ever...
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April 01, 2005
The L.A. Chamber of Commerce recently endorsed Jim Hahn for mayor of Los Angeles. One of the two sane L.A. County Supervisors, Mike Antonovich, endorsed Hahn as well: Mayoral contender Antonio Villaraigosa won the support Wednesday of several San Fernando Valley community leaders while incumbent James Hahn picked up the...
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March 30, 2005
"L.A. Times story shocks CSUC officials": A Tuesday L.A. Times article that appears replete with errors, omissions and unnamed sources has left Chico State University officials cringing. The 1,450-word, in-depth piece on Chico's Greek system was a huge disappointment, said university President Paul Zingg Tuesday afternoon... The quotes from Zingg...
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March 17, 2005
Last month I blogged about Phil Hendrie's move from KFI 640AM Los Angeles to the less-powerful and less-popular XTRA 570AM: "More bad news for Phil Hendrie?" It appears that either based on something Hendrie said, or the radio commercials his wife did, or just based on my own imaginings I...
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March 09, 2005
Barring a challenge by Bob Hertzberg, it looks like May's run-off election will be a repeat of that from four years ago, with Antonio Villaraigosa vs. the incumbent Jim Hahn. I strongly endorse Jim Hahn and I urge you to support him. While Hahn has his faults, they are insignificant...
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March 06, 2005
L.A. political activist Hal Netkin wants to know. Why are KFI's John & Ken supporting Bob Hertzberg for mayor of Los Angeles? Isn't he on the board of MALDEF, the Ford Foundation-funded, pro-Mexico organization that has continuously supported illegal immigration? MALDEF helped block California's Prop. 187 and they tried to...
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March 05, 2005
That's the key question voters should ask themselves regarding the L.A. Mayoral race. If there is indeed currently a three-way race, there will be a run-off. Assuming Parks and Alarcon are out of the running, and making the somewhat dubious assumption that Walter Moore is in the running, here are...
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March 01, 2005
I just posted "Why the L.A. Mayoral race matters to you" (redstate.org/story/2005/3/1/142623/6541). Please leave your Machiavellian suggestions at that link....
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February 27, 2005
Despite an all-out attempt by the Los Angeles media to deny that he exists, does Republican candidate for mayor of L.A. Walter Moore stand a chance of getting into the run-off? See "Will Los Angeles Choose Moore... or Opt for More of the Same?" for the wishful thinking. If someone...
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February 26, 2005
L.A. City Councilman Eric Garcetti has a blog. Previous coverage of Garcetti in "To protect, serve, and constantly monitor", "Los Angeles is the Ellis Island of the West Coast", and "An excerpt from Eric Garcetti's diary"....
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February 24, 2005
Johnnie! Cochran's firm is suing the City of L.A. over case of 13-year-old Devin Brown who was recently shot by the LAPD. AP report: "Johnnie Cochran's firm files claim over LAPD shooting of teen". See also this commentary on the case: "Commentary: Slain Teen Didn’t Just Die at Cop’s Hands,...
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February 23, 2005
The majestic L.A. River was running fast earlier today. The water was a few feet above normal, with some whitecaps caused by the wind and various obstructions. However, the water level was falling since the latest storm appears to have abated. Whilst a-biking riverside, I thought of at least two...
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February 21, 2005
In a Sunday editorial, the L.A. Times says, "...the people of Los Angeles would be well served by a runoff election between Bob Hertzberg and Antonio Villaraigosa...", Yes, indeed. The former president of the UCLA chapter of the racial separatist organization MEChA facing off against a current board member of...
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February 19, 2005
You can listen to the latest Los Angeles mayoral debate here. That debate was held on the Doug McIntyre show on KABC radio....
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February 17, 2005
You decide: look at the map here. The National Park Service wants to convert huge swaths of land surrounding various Los Angeles-area valleys into wildlife corridors to be administered by the NPS. The "Rim of the Valley Corridor Study Act" - sponsored by Rep. Adam Schiff [D-CA] - would commission...
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February 14, 2005
...McIntyre in the Morning will present the candidates in a live forum to discuss the issues you care about most. Mayor James Hahn will be joined by rivals Bob Hertzberg, Richard Alarcon, Bernard Parks, Walter Moore and Antonio Villaraigosa. McIntyre in the Morning is heard weekdays from 5-9AM, the Conversation...
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February 13, 2005
The L.A. Times recently published an article about the shooting of a 13-year-old car theft suspect in South Central L.A. Here's the mailbox: I live in South-Central Los Angeles and just spent the last two evenings at a combination of streetside memorials for Devin Brown and community meetings to plan...
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February 12, 2005
Believe it or don't: Mayor Jim Hahn today announced that his campaign Web site -- www.jimhahn.org - received the Pollie Award for best Web site by a city, municipal, or regional candidate. The annual Pollie Awards are sponsored by the American Association of Political Consultants... ...The Hahn campaign Web site...
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February 11, 2005
From this: Former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan endorsed the mayoral campaign of Bob Hertzberg on Thursday, saying he favored the former state Assembly speaker's plan to break up the Los Angeles Unified School District. Riordan, who now serves as the state secretary of education, appeared on KFI-AM's "The John...
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February 08, 2005
Apparently it's NYT Old Skool day (*) over at the Daily News: "Cuts to hit L.A. hard: Cops, women's programs slashed". Despite the title it's of interest: President George W. Bush's lean $2.57 trillion budget plan to beef up the U.S. military comes at the expense of Southern California's ability...
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February 07, 2005
The Cortislim Curse? Phil Hendrie is being shuffled from Los Angeles' KFI to another L.A. Clear Channel station, Xtra Sports 570AM starting February 21. This follows him getting separated from his wife. His wife occasionally had no name, but rest assured she's the wife of a famous radio personality. Both...
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It's only been back for a few days, and I've already learned so much. Details about their new station in BoreAmerica's "Air America back in Los Angeles"....
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February 04, 2005
In line with the last post, here's a guest column in the Daily News that bears some similarity to an experience I had a couple years ago: I opened my front door, and there before me were four -- count 'em -- four representatives of law enforcement, two LAPD detectives...
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Last October, the L.A. City Council, lead by Councilman Eric Garcetti, proposed installing five surveillance cameras on Hollywood Blvd., with 59 more to follow on Hollywood, Sunset, Santa Monica, and Western. According to an LAPD spokesman at the time: "people are ready to feel more secure in their communities. I...
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February 02, 2005
LAT article here or here....
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January 29, 2005
The L.A. Times offers us 'I'm Sorry. . . . I Didn't Mean It.' Subtitle: Juan Manuel Alvarez showed up at the front door bloody and holding a scissors blade. Blocks away, bodies lay inside mangled trains. The first thing I thought of - well, actually the second thing after...
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January 21, 2005
From this: Los Angeles mayoral candidate Antonio Villaragosa spoke at Friday Night Live January 14. He was particularly vapid. He urged us to "go speak to someone who doesn't speak your language." If you don't share a language with somebody, how can you speak to them? If you happen to...
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January 12, 2005
I didn't spend too much time surveying the damage from the recent heavy rains, but I did take my camera with me on today's hike in Griffith Park. The park had been closed until today because of various factors including a downed tree on Riverside/Crystal Springs. There didn't appear to...
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January 10, 2005
Video of the L.A. mayoral debate featuring Republican Walter Moore as well as normals Richard Alarcon, Bob Hertzberg, and Bernard Parks is here. I would have gone to the debate but I forgot all about it....
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January 05, 2005
From this: It was the Los Angeles City Council's first day back in session since an appellate court chastised it for failing to pay attention to the public during its meetings. But so far, it didn't look like a whole lot had changed. As they discussed tsunami relief and rewards...
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L.A. Mayor Jim Hahn's site appears to be (finally) operational. Here, have some headshots. The problem is that the site appears quite generic. In fact, based on the structure of the URLs used by the site, it appears to use the same coding as many other sites from politicians. Perhaps...
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January 03, 2005
I got a referrer hit from changela.com, the website of L.A. Mayoral candidate Bob Hertzberg. I was a bit shocked, but I thought I might have been added to his blogroll by mistake or out of a sense of balance or something. My response was going to thank them for...
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December 31, 2004
From this: A three-judge panel ruled Thursday that the Los Angeles City Council must hold a new hearing on a controversial strip club because its members were too busy eating, talking on the telephone or doing other activities to listen to the public's testimony... ...Neighborhood activists from across the city...
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December 27, 2004
As previously noted not just once or twice but thrice, both of L.A.'s mayoral debates have reflected L.A.'s rich political spectrum: all five candidates who were invited to the debates were Democrats. Now, this is getting a bit of attention from the minor MSM: So far, there have been two...
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December 26, 2004
DogTrainer: The Los Angeles Police Department is seeking half a million dollars from the federal government to expand the use of advanced facial-recognition systems to identify criminal suspects. Police officials say the technology could be an important step in fighting crime. "It's like a mobile electronic mug book," said Rampart...
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December 22, 2004
On the 19th a small plane hit the 750' tower of radio station KFI in La Mirada. The two people aboard the plane were killed in the crash, but the tower caused little damage on the ground. Pictures of the collapsed tower are here, here, and here. A previous picture...
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December 15, 2004
The L.A. mayoral candidate has loaned his campaign $100,000. Maybe now the Los Angeles League of Conservation Voters will change their mind and invite him to their Dec. 21 debate. (Via this)...
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December 12, 2004
At the first Los Angeles Mayoral debate, the five candidates who were invited to speak represented Los Angeles' rich political spectrum: all were Democrats. Those same five Democrats are the only candidates who have been invited to the second debate, which is being sponsored by the Los Angeles League of...
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December 06, 2004
The LAT - yes, the DogTrainer-Enquirer - punctures that myth: For years it has been a heartfelt cry: "This hospital desperately needs more money!" Whenever Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center is criticized, as it often is, the response from supporters is the same. They say Los Angeles County leaders...
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December 05, 2004
Paraphrasing KCAL: "Welcome to Winter Storm Watch 2004! We've got Team Coverage [TM]! Now, let's go to Clint Brockman in Pacoima" "Thanks Dave... the freeway's dry since the rain stopped at 6:30pm. Back to you, Dave!" "Thanks Clint. Now, let's go to Stacy Smith at the Rim of the World...
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December 02, 2004
Wait! It's not the Flagstaff Mayoral Debate, it's the Los Angeles Mayoral Debate. The chintzy set and the low-wattage politicians had me fooled for a minute. (No offense to the attractive and welcoming city of Flagstaff.) The debate puts Los Angeles' political spectrum in sharp focus. All five candidates are...
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I'll be somewhat live-blogging it tonight at 7pm. I haven't been following L.A. politics recently, but I'll do my best. I finally got around to removing a certain site from my list of blogs; said site had publicly objected to me including links to the article "MEChA, Villaraigosa And...
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November 30, 2004
Broadcast live by KNBC. Details here. How about someone asking the follow-up to this question that was asked four years ago? It has been reported Mr. Villaraigosa that when you were at UCLA you were active in a Latino rights group which among other things says in its constitution that...
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November 29, 2004
Thanks to the Santa Ana winds, the Los Angeles basin is just about as clear as it ever is. Yesterday, from Mt. Hollywood in Griffith Park your blogger could see Catalina 26 miles from the coast 10 miles away, all the way over to San Jacinto Peak about 100 miles...
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October 28, 2004
From the LAT: In a new step for crime fighting in Los Angeles, the Police Department plans to start installing surveillance cameras on city streets, beginning with Hollywood Boulevard. Five video cameras will train their electronic eyes on one of the world's most famous — and infamous — streets as...
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September 30, 2004
I haven't been following this story, but, from "Baca says Measure A still needed": Sheriff Lee Baca said Wednesday he was surprised to learn that Los Angeles County government suddenly found a $309 million surplus, but he still urged voters to pass Measure A, a sales tax increase on the...
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September 29, 2004
From a press release reprinted here: Dr. John C. Eastman, director of the Claremont Institute's Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, will be filing a civil complaint in the Los Angeles Superior Court this afternoon challenging the removal of the cross from the Los Angeles County Seal. The civil suit, styled David...
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September 08, 2004
Our doughty L.A. County board of supervisors have released the proposed new L.A. County seal. The AP reports: A proposed new seal for Los Angeles County has been unveiled_ minus a controversial gold cross, oil derricks and a goddess. County supervisors voted in June to remove a tiny cross, which...
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August 18, 2004
It used to be the only reason to go to Orange County was Little Saigon. Now, an Indian gaming resort is being proposed just blocks from Disneyland. As can be expected, legal shenanigans are involved. (Via this) The title is just joking. Commerce Casino is closer to me and, despite...
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July 15, 2004
I received the following news report from frequent commentator LakersFan20044u269: WHOO! KOBE JUST SIGNED THE CONTRACT!!!! SEVEN MORE YEARS!!!!!!!!! LAKERS RULE!!!! FLY YOUR FLAGS HIGH ON YOUR PHAT RIDE!!!!!! It's true, I just checked. Kobe Bryant has signed another 7 year hitch with the Lakers. In other news, the NBA's...
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July 09, 2004
The L.A. Times intones: Worried that cyber cafes are turning into dens of truancy and breeding gang violence, Los Angeles City Council members Wednesday unanimously voted to regulate about 30 businesses where teens and others congregate to use computers. Dens of iniquity, eh? A supporter of the latest advances in...
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July 06, 2004
Via Matt Welch: I'm writing to encourage you to attend the L.A. Press Club's news-making panel about how LAX border guards have been stopping European and Australian reporters at the airport, cuffing and searching them, and shipping them back home, for failing to have a previously undemanded Journalist Visa. Its...
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July 05, 2004
...In the 'Downloads' section of OurFirstAmendment.org...
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July 04, 2004
From the SacBee: A Republican running against U.S. Rep. Howard Berman wants to place a measure on the November ballot that would return the tiny image of a cross to the Los Angeles County seal... Supervisors Mike Antonovich and Don Knabe supported keeping the cross, saying ACLU's threatened lawsuit was...
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June 23, 2004
Local WiFi expert Mike Outmesguine - a fellow member of the Southern California Wireless Users Group - will be featured on Los Angeles TV station KCOP tonight at 11pm. According to the press release: I will be on TV for about 1 minute tonight (Wednesday) on the Los Angeles local...
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June 19, 2004
It's a sad day in River Town. All throughout the city, Lakers flags can be seen flying at half-staff. I have personally attached even more Lakers flags to my phat ride in a show of solidarity....
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June 13, 2004
The L.A. Daily News asks: 'L.A.'s name too divine?': No L.A.? It's no joke. A strong legal argument can be made that the name of the city of Los Angeles -- even worse its formal name, "The Town of Our Lady the Queen of Angels of the Little Portion" --...
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June 09, 2004
Here it is in all its pristine glory:...
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June 07, 2004
Yes, indeed. Somehow I don't think the title of the USA Today story on it is completely accurate: 'LAPD museum showcases department's good, bad, ugly'....
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June 03, 2004
The Beeb is running the previously-discussed ABC documentary on South L.A. The title of the Beeb's report is: "LA 'on the road to Falluja'?" Drudge links to it using that title. Unfortunately, the source for the title is Civil rights lawyer Connie Rice, who is one of the "leaders" discussed...
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June 01, 2004
Peter Jennings and ABC had an hour-long special on South L.A., specifically about the gang violence and the LAPD. Unfortunately, the community "leaders" interviewed for the program appear to be part of the problem. They continually sought to blame others for South L.A.'s problems: guns, drugs, the LAPD's jackbooted approach...
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May 17, 2004
L.A. City Councilbeing Eric Garcetti is writing this week's Slate Diary. Here's my version: Then, on Monday I mulled over the latest proposition from the Neighbors for Peace and Justice. Sure, that bit about only invading Iraq if we were directly and militarily invaded by Iraq was either disingenuous or...
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April 30, 2004
Earlier today Lonewacko was standing outside a business in Koreatown just off 8th Street waiting for something. As I stood there I watched the parade of humanity pass by. Two guys pushing a cart holding a few boxes with stereo equipment or something. A guy walking by with a box...
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April 28, 2004
Captain Kevin alerts us to Michael Kinsley having been named editorial and opinion editor of the Los Angeles Times. Some of the Captain's commentators aren't happy with it. You see, Kinsley is a mite too conservative for some. Geez, imagine what would happen if they'd named a real conservative. Oh,...
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April 19, 2004
The L.A. Daily News covers the recent HIV cases in the adult cinema industry in 'Adult film scare could alter rules'. It contains some quotes that are scary, and one that's really funny. Completely unattractive 70s porn starlet Sharon Mitchell - now conducting testing and various other adult-cinema-industry related services...
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April 16, 2004
All residents of Los Angeles must immediately affix as many Lakers flags to their cars or bicycles as possible. If you fail in this, the Lakers will lose. It is that simple. Sure, you've got a "phat ride." But, is it "phat" enough? Couldn't you fit just one more Lakers...
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April 15, 2004
LAObserved alerts us to this defense by septigenarian KTLA anchor Hal Fishman of perky sex kitten and fellow KTLA anchor Sharon Tay. Ms. Tay had been featured in an L.A. Times story asking if TV newsreaderettes were too hot. Alright Hal! Hal, you old dawg. You da man!...
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April 04, 2004
MegaLoMart is sponsoring a ballot initiative in Inglewood, CA that would let them build a megastore next to Hollywood Park. Not only that, it would be a big shopping center, complete with a set of stores that don't compete with MegaLoMart. The names or even the SIC codes of those...
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March 18, 2004
From the Daily News: A series of management blunders has turned the once-lucrative Los Angeles Unified School District's food services division into an operation that's lost $72 million in three years and may need a bailout from the cash-strapped general fund, which pays for teachers and other classroom costs... Mistakes...
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March 16, 2004
KFI's John and Ken Show has apparently been able to stop the use of a house in the small desert community of Phelan as a group home for sex offenders. They broadcast live from Phelan today. Out of date stories on this matter here and here....
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March 14, 2004
Our sources indicate that new KCBS anchor Paul Magers was "angered" by the January 'Hot Property' item in which sources reported that "Magers had purchased a 6,700-square-foot, Mediterranean-style villa in Beverly Hills for $6.5 million." "Some parts [of the item] were wrong," sources reported Magers as saying. I don't listen...
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March 08, 2004
From the L.A. Times report on yesterday's L.A. Marathon: Of course, no event representing the true diversity of L.A. could be 100% family-friendly. Hence the lap dancer at West 6th Street and Fairfax Avenue, near mile 18. Her name, she said, was Venus De Mid*l. Her sign read, "Free Lap...
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March 05, 2004
The recent post "Los Angeles is the Ellis Island of the West Coast" discusses the new L.A. City Office of Immigrant Affairs. I took a look at the press release from the city regarding this office, and the situation is even worse than I thought. The press release is here...
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March 03, 2004
I see that Jack-in-the-Box is now offering their pannido in Los Angeles, and perhaps in other cities as well. I had a pannido at the Jack-in-the-Box in Lebanon, TN as part of the Blogging Across America tour ("a panoply of fast food restaurants...") Even though I generally dislike pickles, it...
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March 02, 2004
Received via email, and not verified: Wow, you thought the Bush and the Republicans were bad. [LW: Actually, I didn't particularly think that way, but pray, continue...] Look what the Scient*l*gists on the Silver Lake Nieighborhood Council are up to. Robin Dak|n, Barbara Dak|n and Robert Bro*ks are three of...
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February 02, 2004
Slate has a whole series of articles written by Jack Shafer that attempt to call into doubt the recent NYT Magazine article 'The Girls Next Door'. That article is about sex slaves in the U.S. and Mexico, and one of the people interviewed has this to say: Andrea named trading...
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January 23, 2004
I received the following email regarding the L.A. supermarket workers' strike: THIS SATURDAY, when we join the striking and locked out workers in their 15th week on the picket lines we are going to try to boost the miltancy by picketing all driveways, chanting and actively encouraging potential shoppers to...
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July 29, 2003
Oh, sorry, you caught me preparing my shopping list. The riots are scheduled to start at about 5:30pm, and I want to be prepared. There probably won't be riots. But, if there are, I'm sure as hell not cleaning up after them this time....
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June 22, 2003
Socialism, ahoy! There's a new progressive movement afoot in L.A., according to no less than this L.A. Times editorial: With the election of Antonio Villaraigosa and Martin Ludlow to the Los Angeles City Council, progressivism has reached critical mass in city government. On July 1, the two newcomers will join...
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June 17, 2003
The meeting (see this for the details) was a bit less than interesting, and I was only there for a few minutes, but that was probably because I wasn't familiar with their plans and I hadn't had time to peruse their handouts. I'd suggest picking up the handouts and...
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Via email, there will be a presentation concerning L.A. River renovation Tuesday and Wednesday: The Harvard University Graduate School of Design Los Angeles River Studio presentation schedule is as follows: Tuesday, June 17th 6:30-reception-7pm 9pm-presentations, Los Angeles River Center and Gardens, 570 West Avenue 26 Wednesday, June 18th-10am-11:30am Los Angeles...
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June 09, 2003
I just got this invite via email, and it sounds really good! Apparently, the City of Burbank (of which I am unfortunately not a resident) is holding a big block party on Saturday, June 21! Sponsored by Assemblyman Dario Frommer and the City of Burbank, who tell us: It’s...
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June 04, 2003
FearFactor has their crane set up in Griffith Park, and they'll be filming a stunt tomorrow. It's on the (closed) asphalt road above Bee Rock. The thing at the end of the crane is two large plexiglass walls, each about 8' high and 30' wide. They're placed into an "X"...
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June 02, 2003
The LAT has an article on actor Trev Broudy, who was allegedly "robbed" last year: On Sept. 1, Broudy was saying goodbye to his friend Teddy Ulett when a man jumped out of a car and began swinging at Broudy's head with a bat. A witness told sheriff's deputies that...
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June 01, 2003
There's a slideshow starting here....
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May 28, 2003
Sidney Blumenthal is speaking at the Los Angeles Central Library tonight. Scroll to the end of that page for reservation information; it's free. I haven't received confirmation of my reservation yet; perhaps I'm on a VLWC blacklist or something. UPDATE: My reservation has been confirmed. UPDATE 2: My report is...
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May 22, 2003
Earlier tonight, KTLA's Walter Richards was lucky enough to chance upon the Lonewacko himself in the parking lot of the El Pollo Loco on Figueroa near USC. He had just finished shooting a story on the MTA fare hike. They had shot elsewhere, but were currently beaming their report back...
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May 03, 2003
I uploaded some pics of the L.A. River I took earlier today to here. It's been raining, but as you can see from the pics, the river has been higher lately. During heavy, prolonged rains, I've seen it almost come over the enbankment, but it's not like that now. Other...
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May 01, 2003
Rubio's (chain) - a slightly upper-market fast-food restaurant with clean indoor seating. When I saw the Burrito Especial, I thought it included rice and beans on the side. When I got it, boy was I surprised. I had just spent five fucking bucks for a burrito and a small bag...
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April 21, 2003
Via email: At the April meeting of the Ad Hoc River Committee, representatives from the Chief Accounting Office, Chief Legislative Analyst, and City Attorney, presented communications regarding management and funding strategies for LA River revitalization efforts. The communications are now available on the Ad Hoc River Committee website. The communications...
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April 14, 2003
Gloria Allred has a new case: LOS ANGELES - A Marine reservist serving in Iraq was wrongly fired from his civilian job at Hyundai Motor America after he was called to duty, his wife and attorney claimed Monday. But Hyundai Motor America said Sgt. Clifford E. Moffitt, 35, of Irvine,...
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April 12, 2003
From this fine news source: Now that Saddam Hussein has lost his grip on Baghdad, one Los Angeles city councilman is talking of making the bombed-out metropolis of 5 million a sister city. Councilman Dennis Zine, who also was the force behind the council's unanimous vote Friday condemning the vanquished...
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April 08, 2003
From this: The City Council is scheduled to vote Wednesday on whether to formally rename the historically black area in an effort to sever the region from its longtime image as a gang-ridden, poverty-stricken ghetto. It would instead be known as South Los Angeles on future city documents... Well, it's...
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March 26, 2003
According to 'L.A. Mayor Regrets Anti-War Petition': A day after signing a students' petition labeling the war in Iraq "unjust," Mayor James Hahn backtracked and said he doesn't believe the conflict is unjust after all. "Yesterday I signed a petition prepared and presented to me by sixth graders at Florence...
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March 24, 2003
A webcam placed on top of the astronomer's statue and pointed at the observatory is linked to off this page....
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March 13, 2003
This L.A. Times story on intellectually-orientated events in L.A. seems to have an unhealty affinity for NYC. No less than six occurences of 'york': "The only thing wrong with intellectual life in L.A. is that people keep asking if there's intellectual life in L.A.," New Yorker architecture critic Paul Goldberger...
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March 11, 2003
More here: State Controller Steve Westly has launched an audit of this working class community of 96,000 that has been plagued with allegations of voter fraud and political corruption in recent months. "My aim in this process is to make certain that taxpayer funds have not been used improperly,"...
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March 01, 2003
Tomorrow I hope to bike in the L.A. Bike Tour, which is held on the same course as and right before the L.A. Marathon. The stats are pretty easy: about 20 miles, and it's not a race, so you can't exceed 9 MPH. However, I over-exerted my quads and...
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February 18, 2003
The title ('L.A. city council rejects anti-war measure') of this article isn't exactly correct. There's another vote coming up Friday, so it's not over yet. Apparently, they managed to wheel out not just Ed Asner in support of the resolution, but some other actor as well: "In my view," [Councilman...
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February 12, 2003
According to this article: [L.A.] city officials are looking into revitalizing major stretches of the [L.A. River] - which, after all, was once a real river - into a world-class waterfront. The idea is to return some lost soul to the city's most neglected individual neighborhoods. It's also hoped that...
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February 05, 2003
So rampantly speculates this. (The original title said LA Times. Your choice as to which would be worse.)...
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February 03, 2003
Is it this Lana Clarkson? An updated report is here. While I'm not intimately familiar with the area, I was surprised that there could be a $1 million house in or around Alhambra. I guess it was on a large lot....
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December 13, 2002
LAExaminer.com ran a story about a study that showed certain parts of LA having the highest concentration of fat kids in the state. I posted a couple comments without reading the article first. Now, after having read the article... What's as enlightening as the study is the reaction: Assemblywoman Cindy...
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December 03, 2002
Last night I attended a meeting for the Atwater Village Streetscape Study and Masterplan. Those of you who care not for such matters, please, I beg and beseech of you, skip to the next entries. They're really good. Those who dare, click "MORE."...
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November 12, 2002
Janice Hahn concluded that showing Tora! Tora! Tora! on Pearl Harbor Day at a San Pedro Theater "would have been insensitive to the Japanese-American community". Reductio ad absurdum and discussing the rewriting of history is left as an exercise, as is writing a letter to Janice letting her know how...
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October 11, 2002
FYI: I'll be at this event on Saturday, providing non-costumed moral support to Team Caco....
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October 01, 2002
THE BIG PICTURE Studios' Web 'Plants' Lead to an Ethical Thicket By PATRICK GOLDSTEIN Ever since Harry Knowles burst to prominence with Aintitcoolnews.com, the Internet has blossomed with hundreds of movie geek Web sites, each one crammed with its own oddball assortment of news, reviews and message boards devoted to...
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September 28, 2002
Hey! How'd you like to meet me in person? C'mon, I promise not to creep you out. Tomorrow, as explicated in the following email, a community organization will be doing a cleanup of Atwater Village, and I'll probably be there for a few minutes between noon and 2pm. Atwater Village...
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