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Setting self-doubt aside for a face-lift
As public eyesores go, the 2-acre disaster across the street from L.A. City Hall is a marvel. About 20 dust-crusted feral cats keep watch over a dilapidated bunker that appears to have been the target of an aerial bombing. From street level, tourists and...
Tags: Los Angeles Times, Local Government, Gloria Molina, Property, Occupy Los Angeles
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The city's suffering stray animals desperately need help
Los Angeles took a baby step this week toward enabling the "no-kill" policy we're trying to promote in our giant animal shelter system. The City Council's vote to forbid pet shops from selling dogs and cats from commercial breeders may mean a stay of...
Tags: Pneumonia, Animal, Craigslist, Inc.
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L.A.'s mayoral race just got more complicated
With the first round of the Los Angeles mayoral election still more than four months away, the race has taken shape in recent weeks, largely because of two developments that have scrambled the handicapping of the contest. First, it became clear that...
Tags: Eric Garcetti, Wendy Greuel, Government, Pension and Welfare, Local Elections
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Newton: Herb Wesson, City Council's new boss
The Los Angeles City Council has a new president, Herb Wesson. But does a new president change anything?
The council president is just one vote of 15 on that notoriously difficult to manage body. In that sense, he's not much different from his...Tags: Eric Garcetti, Wendy Greuel, Jan Perry, Elections, Herb Wesson
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Teacher Sal Castro fights to honor the Eastside 'blowouts'
Sal Castro sat in his book-lined den, reduced to writing on a whiteboard to fight what could be his last political battle. Hours earlier, the "usually glib and gregarious" teacher and activist, as he describes himself, had been released from St....Tags: Hillary Clinton, Crime, Law and Justice, University of California, Los Angeles, Human Interest, Politics
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Newton: The bitter battle for L.A. city attorney
In this city election cycle, most of the attention so far has been devoted to the big event: the early maneuvering in the mayor's race, as the field takes shape and the leading contenders attempt to define themselves. While that's going on, though, the...
Tags: Lawyers, Jack Weiss, Justice System, Jan Perry, Elections
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Newton: Is Eric Garcetti mayoral material?
Eric Garcetti is one of the city's more likable public officials. He's smart, dapper, quietly confident, attentive to detail, seasoned enough to be taken seriously by power brokers but boyish enough to tend his Twitter feed. He's quite liberal but also...
Tags: Zev Yaroslavsky, Eric Garcetti, Wendy Greuel, Twitter, Inc., Jan Perry
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Mayoral candidates step into sidewalk debate
Les Butts of Woodland Hills was walking his dog earlier this month, which can be a dangerous activity in a city with nearly 5,000 miles of ruptured sidewalk. Butts, a musical instrument salesman, hit a patch of uneven pavement and took a tumble, falling...
Tags: Eric Garcetti, Landforms, Car Repair and Maintenance Tips, Building Material, Wendy Greuel
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Newton: Treating L.A.'s spending addiction
City Councilman Bernard C. Parks likes to describe Los Angeles' budget woes as the consequence of an untreated addiction — the city's habit of adding workers in good times and then being unwilling to let them go in bad times. The result is ever-...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Job Layoffs, Eric Garcetti, Layoffs and Downsizing, Los Angeles Police Department
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Newton: L.A.'s pension peril
There are a couple of assumptions guiding much of the civic conversation about public employee pension reform: first, that organized labor would fight any reform tooth and nail; and second, that labor's strong presence in Los Angeles would doom such...
Tags: Bankruptcy, Los Angeles Times Columnists, Government, Pension and Welfare, Voting
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Please, newsmakers, he doesn't need this strain
Having been told by healthcare professionals to take it easy after recent medical challenges, is it safe for me to continue following the local news? It's not easy to keep your blood pressure under control while reading that former Bell Police Chief...
Tags: Eric Garcetti, Wendy Greuel, Staples Center, Government, Football
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Newton: Jan Perry, L.A.'s refreshingly candid mayoral candidate
Los Angeles city and county governments are full of officials who profess to be candid but who are, in fact, evasive or even deceptive. City Councilwoman Jan Perry is not one of them. She is refreshingly open, even blunt. She's affable, but she takes...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Eric Garcetti, Wendy Greuel, Los Angeles Times Columnists, Herb Wesson
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