Heard today on NPR’s “All Things Considered:” Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa made the following points within about two minutes.
- LA is the most underpoliced big city in the United States
- LA has a large gang problem
Wait for it …
- the federal government should help.
Sure. OR the citizens of Los Angeles could pay to put […]
Yesterday Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced
his plans to drive California into third world status.
Officially a Health Care Reform plan if adopted it would:
Require all employers with 10 or more employees to provide insurance or pay 4% of their payroll into a government program designed to provide coverage to the uninsured.
Tax Doctors 2% of their Gross […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)A judge in San Francisco has halted that city’s effort to “make bicycling in the city easier and more convenient.”
The reason? There needs to be an environmental impact report.
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(click on post title, or here, for the rest)California court confirms what men have known for years, female nudity is no crime.
For once a judge factors the will of the people when making a major judicial decision regarding public displays of nudity. Let’s hope this doesn’t get overturned in appeal.
A Riverside County judge dismissed an indecent exposure charge against a woman who allegedly […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Would you vote for this man? Not many will.
California’s Democratic party has learned once again how not to win a gubernatorial race. It is certain that they will once again lose in a most-decidedly Democratically state. How?
1. Failing to find a candidate worth supporting. Phil Angelides is not only a poor choice for governor, he […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Report a burglary in progress in the City of Los Angeles and officers might visit later in the day to take your report. In Redondo Beach? You get a small army: after a call to police about a residential burglary, KNBC says,
“Officers from Redondo Beach were then joined by police from Manhattan Beach, Hermosa Beach, […]
Putting the HP spy scandal to shame, the embattled campaign of Phil Angelides admitted that it was responsible for the leak to the Los Angeles Times of tapes of a private meeting of California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Sleazy? No?
“Phil Angelides has a long history of gutter politics,” said Katie Levinson in a statement, “and it is […]
Mike Antonovich has killed our subsidiary site Antonovich.blogspot.com.
In early July we read in Steve Lopez’s LA Times column that LA County Supervisor Mike Antonovich sends out phonebook-sized mailings of his favorite news items to several hundred people … an activity paid for by LA County taxpayers. We suggested he get a blog … and we […]
“Schwarzenegger … said he has tailed his 16-year-old daughter, Katherine, while she was driving and warned her she would be taking the bus if he caught her using her cellphone while behind the wheel.”
- Los Angeles Times: Schwarzenegger Calls for Banning Hand-Held Cellphone Use While Driving
Steve Lopez writes in today’s Los Angeles Times about Supervisor Mike Antonovich’s “screwball mailings:”
Antonovich is fond of putting staffers and clerks to work sending phonebook-size collections of his favorite “news” items to a few hundred friends and colleagues. Each time Uncle Mike gets the urge to regale pals with his ding-a-ling discoveries, it costs us […]
Following the tragic deaths of Stanislav Ionov and Scott Bleifer last year, a number of parties have been working on making Pacific Coast Highway safer for cyclists. Step one is a very small step–placing “Share the Road” signs along the more dangerous stretches of the highway. While some may scoff that drunk drivers and speeders […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Martin Sheen was out stumping for Kelly Hayes-Raitt for California State Assembly including sending us this nice unsolicited photo. You’d think such an environmental candidate would have been a little bit more judicious with junk mail.
Unfortunately Sheen’s candidate got trounced and was even beaten by this guy. I guess the voters were looking for a […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)In what can only be thought of as a sick inside joke, the appeals lawyers for serial killer Richard Ramirez (aka the Night Stalker) who killed 13 people in the Los Angeles area in the 1980s timed the filing of their appeal to 6.6.6 (2006). Not coincidentally this is the exact same date that the […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)“The worst, most offensive campaign ever seen in the State of California…”
No we are not talking about the mudslinging Democratic primary for governor between Steve Westly and that other guy, we are referring to a campaign far worse. This one staring some extraordinarily annoying guy named Jonathan Levey. What do I have against Mr. Levey? […]
The LAT reports today on the push for an agreement among states as to how they award their Electoral College votes in future presidential elections:
Under a bill passed by the Assembly, California would join an interstate compact in which states would agree to cast their electoral votes not for the winner in their jurisdictions but […]
