The following post showed up on my RSS reader for the LAPD blog however at some point after being syndicated it was pulled and cannot be found on the site. Why was it pulled? Cover-up? If Jason shows up and starts whacking people over the head on Sunset Blvd. are they going to squash that […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)“Mr. Clinton is rarely without company in public … Nights out find him zipping around Los Angeles with his bachelor buddy, Ronald W. Burkle, or hitting parties and fund-raisers in Manhattan …” - New York Times, May 23
Which answers the question — what’s more fun: being the spouse of a Senator or the wingman of […]
Why didn’t someone ask Philadelphia?
Two weeks ago the Los Angeles Times published Releasing Inmates Early Has a Costly Human Toll. The article described LA County’s early release program and the disastrous results of putting convicted criminals back on the street prior to serving their complete sentences.
As a direct result of the article and […]
Say what you want about LAPD but when it comes to a sunny beach day in LA, they are only too happy to show up in force. I’m sure anyone even considering committing a crime on this Venice beach sand berm would have been deterred by the boys from Pacific Blue.
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(click on post title, or here, for the rest)This is how it all started on May 13, 2003:
My name is Kevin Roderick. I am an author, a journalist, an Angeleno and wear assorted other labels. I suppose I’m also now a blogger. This will be a place where I file occasional tidbits, observations and hearsay about Los Angeles. The emphasis will be on […]
New supercomputer simulations show that a rupture on the San Andreas fault will cause minutes of severe “roller coaster” shaking in the Los Angeles Basin.
Researchers at the Southern California Earthquake Center simulated two scenarios: a northeast to southwest “zipper” rupture, and the reverse. It is said to be “the biggest and most detailed simulation of […]
The San Francisco Chronicle says that what’s good for Google’s stock market value is good for California:
California took in a record $11.3 billion in personal income tax receipts in April, $4.3 billion more than it collected last April. It’s almost certain that a significant chunk of April’s haul came from Google employees — perhaps one-eighth […]
The Los Angeles Times recent story on Antonio Villaraigosa’s active schedule included a picture of the LA Mayor running the 5K Run for Victims’ Rights 5k. They noted that his time of 22:58 was quicker than his LAPD body guard. This is indeed impressive unless of course you compare it to the running exploits of […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)The Economist on why L.A. has no football team:
(John Vrooman, a sports economist at Vanderbilt University) points out that the league (the NFL - ed.) likes to leave one prominent city without a football franchise, “like an empty seat in musical chairs”, so that teams in other cities can threaten to move if they do […]
Overwhelming support for Westly at polls means naught to Democratic Party insiders who throw support behind the organized labor pick. Once again the Dems consider their own voters to be dupes too easily manipulated by television ads, an assessment trumpeted by the Los Angeles Times.
This Democratic-voters-are-easily-manipulated attitude appears to be supported by the […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)When given a choice between preserving the view from his kid’s play area and allowing the development of retail shops and a restaurant that would provide about 50* jobs to hardworking Angelenos, actor Johnny Depp votes against the people getting paid by the hour.
The Los Angeles Times reported that Depp is seeking to obstruct development […]
The San Diego Union-Tribune reports that strange things have been going on far out in the ocean:
A group of local scientists has uncovered some clues to the source of a mysterious disturbance that rattled San Diego County on the morning of April 4, shaking windows, doors and bookcases from the coast to the mountains.
The scientists, […]
How remorseful is LA school board candidate Christopher Arellano about the untruths and misrepresentations made during his campaign? Not much judging by his official web site (Christopherarellano.org) which still contains the very falsehoods that have embroiled his campaign.
As of today, March 9th, Independent Sources found that Arellano’s website still claims that Arellano earned two […]
San Franciscans may not want the battleship Iowa anywhere near their city, but it looks like she would be welcome in Moscow … yes, that Moscow.
The BBC reports that these posters appeared around the Russian capital in preparation for Defender of the Motherland day:
The problem: that’s the Iowa’s sister ship, the USS Missouri — not […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)We already know that San Francisco doesn’t want the battleship Iowa as a waterfront museum (see our posts here, here, and here). To that city, the Iowa represents the military and war, which are by their definition bad things. But when Supervisor Gerardo Sandoval went on Fox’s Hannity & Colmes last week to talk about […]
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