Authorities Vow To Track Down Illegal Immigrants
U.S. authorities are vowing to track down illegal immigrants at home and at work after only eight people volunteered for a self-deportation program. The nearly three-week trial for illegal immigrants who have ignored court orders to leave the country ends Friday in five cities.
via Los Angeles Times - Top News on 8/22/08
Bernard Parks calls on his rival Mark Ridley-Thomas to return $4.5 million raised on his behalf by a labor alliance that included Tyrone Freeman, who is facing an inquiry.
Controversy surrounding a powerful Los Angeles labor leader threatened Thursday to alter the landscape beneath the county's hottest political race, which has been fueled by record amounts of union spending.
Controversy surrounding a powerful Los Angeles labor leader threatened Thursday to alter the landscape beneath the county's hottest political race, which has been fueled by record amounts of union spending.
via SFGate: Top News Stories by myi@sfchronicle.com (Matthew Yi) on 8/22/08
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Thursday that the budget deadlock could last for several more weeks, a delay that would force him to call a special election. Two significant pieces of his budget require voter approval, and many state lawmakers consider...
via L.A. Times - Business on 8/22/08
JACKSON, Wyo. -- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said today the financial crisis that has pounded the country -- coupled with higher inflation -- is taking a toll on the economy and poses a major challenge to Fed policymakers as they try to restore stability.
via News by editor@dailynews.com (Art Marroquin, Staff Writer) on 8/21/08
Unionized passenger service workers at Los Angeles International Airport overwhelmingly agreed to authorize a strike against their employers, officials announced Thursday.
via News by editor@dailynews.com (Kerry Cavanaugh, Staff Writer) on 8/21/08
A turf battle between two Los Angeles city employee unions hit the airwaves Thursday, as one group began running radio ads asking the mayor and City Council to investigate its rival.
via Mayor Sam's Sister City - Home of Los Angeles Politics by noreply@blogger.com (Michael Higby) on 8/22/08
The Shaw Family will return to Leimert Park this Sunday from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. to gather signatures for the petition to put Jamiel's Law on the ballot. Mayoral candidate Walter Moore will be there from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. passing out yard signs and bumper stickers. There's even a rumor...
Buffett: Economy’s troubles will continue
Buffett: Economy’s troubles will continue
via MSNBC.com: Business on 8/22/08
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett said Friday the economy continues to be in a recession, by his definition, and will continue to be for at least several more months.
via Reuters: Business News on 8/21/08
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Warren Buffett, the billionaire co-founder of a top private equity firm and a prominent voice for U.S. fiscal responsibility, called on the United States and its elected officials to combat the nation's fast-growing, multi-trillion dollar debt load.
via KNBC.com Video on 8/21/08
Laurel Erickson reports.Wannabe City Attorney Jack Weiss blames the media for his ineffectiveness
Councilman Jack Weiss has gambled his political future by hanging out in the Antonio Villaraigosa's back pocket for years in hopes the mayor's coattails will carry him into the City Attorney's Office despite his lackluster record of achievement and public service.8:02 PM (3 minutes ago)
Text Messaging to be IIlegal While Driving...
from LAist by Zach Behrens
... if Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signs a bill that's headed to his desk.
Senate Bill 28, that begun making its way around the capitol in 2007 seeks to "prohibit drivers from sending or reading text messages while operating a motor vehicle. The law would go into effect on January 1, 2009, as an adjunct to the existing prohibitions against the operation of a cell phone without a hands-free device," according to State Senator Joe Simitian's website, who represents parts of Northern California.
The bill is headed towards Schwarzenegger's desk, says the Associated Press. Currently, the hands free law is silent on text messaging while driving for adults.
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8:00 PM (6 minutes ago)
ALERT: Zuma Dogg Busts LA City Water Wasting!!!
from LA Daily Blog.com by zumadogg@gmail.com (zuma dogg)
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Will someone please write Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa for this massive water wasting. I think Schwarzenegger should be on the next high speed rail from Sacramento to L.A. to yell at the mayor over...Go to LADailyBlog.com for full story.
4:09 PM (3 hours ago)
Not Everyone Happy To See More West Hollywood Affordable Housing
from Curbed LA by Dakota
"More Development, More Traffic?" wonders Melrose Action, a neighborhood web site that posts an undated construction photo of the new Tigh Architecture-designed affordable housing development on Sierra Bonita and Santa Monica Blvd in West Hollywood. This project, a five-story mixed use development with 42 one-bedroom units, is also geared towards the disabled and those with HIV, but that's not going to stop some anti-development comments on the site..."over-development planned in our area...it's choking us with traffic etc."· More Development, More Traffic? [Melrose Action]· WeHo Affordable Housing In Fully Rendered Webby Glory [Curbed LA]
4:09 PM (3 hours ago)
California Could Soon Ban Texting While Driving
from CBS 2 - KCAL 9 - Los Angeles - Southern California - LA Breaking News, Weather, Traffic, Sports
California would outlaw text-messaging while driving under a bill that's headed for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's desk.
4:09 PM (3 hours ago)
LA Times Memo Reveals Why They Suck!
from LA Daily Blog.com by zumadogg@gmail.com (zuma dogg)
Was scanning the LA City News blog and I caught this memo on the LA Observed website. (LA Observed is a neutered, fluff-ball, lap-pussy...but here is actually the first thing I ever saw on the site...Go to LADailyBlog.com for full story.
3:07 PM (4 hours ago)
Obama Says He's Made His Veep Choice
from knbc.com - Local News
Sen. Barack Obama says he's decided on a running mate, but he won't say who.
12:36 PM (7 hours ago)
Gov.'s budget calls for tax hike
from L.A. Times - California Local News
Schwarzenegger announces three-year tax hike and his formal plan just after a judge ruled to hear a dispute between the governor and Controller John Chiang over state worker pay cuts on Sept. 12. Hoping to break a partisan logjam and prevent the Legislature from borrowing its way out of a state spending crisis, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger went public Wednesday with his own budget blueprint, the backbone of which is a tax hike and a large rainy-day cushion.
12:35 PM (7 hours ago)
LAX Union Service Workers Vote To Authorize Strike
from CBS 2 - KCAL 9 - Los Angeles - Southern California - LA Breaking News, Weather, Traffic, Sports
Members of a service workers union at Los Angeles International Airport have voted to authorize a strike. A union spokesman said Thursday that the 2,500 workers of Service Employees International Union Local 1871 voted overwhelmingly Wednesday night to give its leaders the authority to call for a strike. Leaders cited inadequate training, lack of proper equipment, lack of health care and low pay as reasons for the potential walkout.
12:35 PM (7 hours ago)
Charter school leader joins Milken venture
from News by editor@dailynews.com (George B. Sánchez, Staff Writer)
After years of fighting the education establishment to expand rights for charter schools, the head of the California Charter Schools Association announced her abrupt departure Wednesday to join an international education company.
12:34 PM (7 hours ago)
AUDIO: Zuma Dogg Discusses Leimert Park Task Force Run In With Shaw Family on Kevin James Show
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Zuma Dogg discusses his day's worth of research investigating the "task force" run in with the Shaw Family in Leimert Park this past Sunday with Kevin James on KRLA AM 870. (Also, Jamiel Shaw, Sr....Go to LADailyBlog.com for full story.
12:33 PM (7 hours ago)
California's ballot billions
from Los Angeles Times - Opinion
No matter what budget Sacramento comes up with, California voters will probably increase the deficit in 10 weeks. There's little chance that the state budget eventually passed in Sacramento will actually rid California of its stubborn $15.2-billion deficit. But in the improbable event that the Legislature and governor balance the budget without resorting to such gimmicks as raiding other accounts, enjoy the moment. In just 10 weeks, California voters will likely throw it out of whack again.
12:32 PM (7 hours ago)
Leimert Aftermath: Throw Bernie Under the Bus?
from Mayor Sam's Sister City - Home of Los Angeles Politics by noreply@blogger.com (Michael Higby)
As we continue to dig deeper into the raid on Leimert Park Sunday and alleged harrassment of the Shaw Family by City officials, something kept coming up. The desire to place responsibility for the raid on Council Member Bernard Parks. According to Zuma Dogg, police officers told him that...
12:30 PM (7 hours ago)
Two Economic Indicators Show Continued Weakness
from CNBC Top News and Analysis
12:29 PM (7 hours ago)
LAX Service Workers Vote to Strike
from KTLA The CW Where Los Angeles Lives - News
LAX-- An overwhelming vote has authorized a strike of the Airline Service Workers at Los Angeles International Airport, the union said today.
12:28 PM (7 hours ago)
Considering Griffith Park's Future: Today's the day that the city's...
from Curbed LA by Dakota
Today's the day that the city's Cultural Heritage Committee will review an application to make Griffith Park historic: Griffith Van Griffith and his family trust have applied for Historic Cultural Monument status, which if approved, would make the park the country's largest historic landmark. City Councilman Tom LaBonge is skeptical of the idea, worrying it could affect the park's maintenance and infrastructure (sewers, etc.); Ken Bernstein, manager of the Cultural Heritage Commission tells the LA Times' Joanna Lin a historical designation would not "freeze historic properties at a point in time." If the Cultural Historic Commission decides to formerly consider the application, they'll ultimately also have to decide whether to pass the matter to the full City Council. [LA Times]
12:28 PM (7 hours ago)
Griffith Park as a Historic-Cultural Monument?
from LAist by Zach Behrens
"Griffith [Van Griffith, great grandon of Col. Griffith Jenkins Griffith who the park is named after] is scheduled to appear today at Los Angeles City Hall to push for historic-cultural monument status for the park his great-grandfather gave the city 112 years ago," reports the LA Times. "At 4,218 acres, Griffith Park would be the largest such monument in the country. Griffith said the designation is needed to prevent commercial developments similar to those briefly proposed by city officials in a 2005 master plan." If the Cultural Heritage Commission vote to take in the application, they will spend the upcoming weeks touring the park and then decide to refer it to city council or not.
12:27 PM (7 hours ago)
'Subway to the Sea' Sneak Peak
from LAist by Zach Behrens
As of last May, these were the 4 remaining rail options (View Larger Image) Provided by Metro
Here's one of the maps that will be seen at the upcoming Westside Extension meetings that Metro will be holding in September. Metro won't say what routes/alternatives have made the cut, but we do know this: the above map shows all four remaining subway possibilities from last May and all four might remain as possibilities.
As for which ones are staying put as Metro's recommendation and which ones got axed, we won't know until September (or maybe the day before the first meeting). "Some or all of them will continue forward," explained Jody Litvak of Metro. "It will be four or less."
Some of the freshest news about the project is coming via their Facebook page, a first for Metro in social networking.
12:26 PM (7 hours ago)
LAT kudos itself for not running Rocky story
from LA Observed by Kevin
The Los Angeles Times got beaten on Tuesday by the San Francisco Chronicle's disclosure of an FBI probe into City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo. A memo...
12:25 PM (7 hours ago)
Southwest Museum Community College??
from Mayor Sam's Sister City - Home of Los Angeles Politics by noreply@blogger.com (Red Spot in CD 14)
These are the words of the "COUNCILMAN LAST SEEN CLAIMING VICTORY FOR THE SOUTHWEST MUSEUM AS JOSE HUIZAR", which were printed in his booklet "TOGETHER: Creating a Better Community", handed out to the masses at the "GREAT CD 14 FILIBUSTER EVENT". "In september 2007, Councilmember Huizar announced...
via Market Headlines from CNBC on 8/21/08
via Reuters: U.S. on 8/21/08
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The $630 million of cuts ordered by New York Gov. Paterson hit the Department of Corrections hardest, which loses just over $168 million under the plan he released on Thursday.
via KABC - Los Angeles - Southern California - LA Breaking News, Weather, Traffic, Sports on 8/20/08
Airport workers held a strike authorization vote Wednesday.
via Zuma's LA Daily Blog by zumadogg@gmail.com (zuma dogg) on 8/20/08
Mayor Sam commented on his blog saying, "So far, no one has confirmed the existence of any similar operation at Leimert or any other park previously. And no one has disputed that there was no...
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via KABC - Los Angeles - Southern California - LA Breaking News, Weather, Traffic, Sports on 8/20/08
The Governor says he would support a tax increase to end the budget battle.
via L.A. Times - California | Local News on 8/21/08
A campaign begins to warn neighbors and visitors about the crimes. Police say as many as three robbers, individually or together, confront victims at gunpoint and demand money.
Hit by seven armed robberies in 10 days, residents who live in and around trendy Melrose Avenue have launched a campaign to warn neighbors and visitors to take precautions in response to the crime spree. 
Hit by seven armed robberies in 10 days, residents who live in and around trendy Melrose Avenue have launched a campaign to warn neighbors and visitors to take precautions in response to the crime spree.
via Reuters: U.S. on 8/20/08
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. consumers should brace for the biggest increase in food prices in nearly 20 years in 2008 and even more pain next year due to surging meat and produce prices, the Agriculture Department said on Wednesday.
via knbc.com - Los Angeles Local News on 8/20/08
A judge rules that state worker pay cuts will not happen as planned, at least for now.
via LAist by Zach Behrens on 8/20/08
The story of Rocky Delgadillo, his wife Michelle and their troubles, which began last summer, is getting deeper and thicker. It was first reported by the San Francisco Chronicle yesterday that the FBI was investigating and today the LA Times exposed a more in-depth story saying that the investigation focuses in on Michelle, the companies that have hired her on contract and her own home-based consulting business that she "failed to file state tax returns and operated for years without a required city tax registration certificate."
via Ron Kaye L.A. by Ron Kaye on 8/20/08
I spent my whole adult life earning a living in mainstream media and the last four months working for free as a blogger so I offer myself as something of an expert on what's going on: Corporate news media still have a long way to fall while the blogosphere has a long way to rise.
Corporate media face unsolvable problems.
Advertisers have fled to new media. Readers, particularly the younger high-consuming audience, has no use for them. Few news executives have any experience working in highly-competitive markets having spent their careers managing virtual monopolies while executives being brought in from competitive industries have no clue about journalism except what they've read or seen in corporate news media.
Corporate media face unsolvable problems.
Advertisers have fled to new media. Readers, particularly the younger high-consuming audience, has no use for them. Few news executives have any experience working in highly-competitive markets having spent their careers managing virtual monopolies while executives being brought in from competitive industries have no clue about journalism except what they've read or seen in corporate news media.
via Zuma's LA Daily Blog by zumadogg@gmail.com (zuma dogg) on 8/20/08
You may not think Zuma Dogg is smart, but he's smart enough to talk to actually smart people, with years; decades; or a lifetime of experience. So when I read in today's Los Angeles Time, that the...
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via Ron Kaye L.A. by Ron Kaye on 8/20/08
Former LAUSD School Board President Caprice Young is resigning as head of the California Charter School Association to become an an executive with Knowledge Universe, a private education company founded by Michael and Lowell Milken.
Young was credited with leading then Mayor Richard Riordan's
efforts to reform L.A.'s public schools and with leading the statewide charter school organization's efforts to set up more than 300 charter schools with 100,000 students.
She joins Santa Monica-based Knowledge Universe as Vice President, Business Development and Alliances working with national and global business leaders to identify, develop and implement innovative education approaches in the K-12 education sector, according to a press release.
The company provides tutoring and other services to implement the federal "No Child Left Behind Law" as well as services to online schools and home schools.
Young was credited with leading then Mayor Richard Riordan's
efforts to reform L.A.'s public schools and with leading the statewide charter school organization's efforts to set up more than 300 charter schools with 100,000 students.She joins Santa Monica-based Knowledge Universe as Vice President, Business Development and Alliances working with national and global business leaders to identify, develop and implement innovative education approaches in the K-12 education sector, according to a press release.
The company provides tutoring and other services to implement the federal "No Child Left Behind Law" as well as services to online schools and home schools.
via LA Times Video on 8/20/08
8-20 (AP) With the global food crisis showing no sign of easing, some are blaming the production of biofuels for the high costs associated with corn.
via SacBee -- News by tbizjak@sacbee.com (Tony Bizjak) on 8/20/08
A light-rail connection between south Sacramento and the north end of Elk Grove has been pushed back a year - to 2012. And the price tag has jumped 23 percent to $270 million, officials said.
Regional Transit's Meadowview station along the South Line opened in October 2003. Now an extension to the north end of Elk Grove has been pushed back a year, to 2012, and the price is rising.
via Curbed LA by Dakota on 8/20/08
Despite concerns from residents along Windward Avenue about a proposed concert series in Venice, last night the Venice Neighborhood Council voted to support a four-concert series pilot program--two concerts will be held in September, and two in October-- near the boardwalk. As previously noted, some residents had opposed the concerts, and expressed concerns about noise, parking, and crowds. (Actress Anjelica Huston was one of those reportedly fighting the concerts.)
via KABC - Los Angeles - Southern California - LA Breaking News, Weather, Traffic, Sports on 8/20/08
LAX is bracing for a possible strike.
via Zuma's LA Daily Blog by zumadogg@gmail.com (zuma dogg) on 8/20/08
The good news is, it appears as though the City Attorney's office is finally doing something about illegal vending! Because that is why they were at Leimert Park on Sunday, even though if you WERE...
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via Los Angeles Times - Top News on 8/21/08
The governor announced the three-year tax hike and his formal plan just after a judge ruled to hear a dispute between Schwarzenegger and Controller John Chiang over state worker pay cuts on Sept. 12.
Hoping to break a partisan logjam and prevent the Legislature from borrowing its way out of a state spending crisis, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger went public Wednesday with his own budget blueprint, the backbone of which is a tax hike and a large rainy-day cushion.
Hoping to break a partisan logjam and prevent the Legislature from borrowing its way out of a state spending crisis, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger went public Wednesday with his own budget blueprint, the backbone of which is a tax hike and a large rainy-day cushion.
via Los Angeles Times - Print Edition on 8/20/08
Investigators are seeking information about her consulting business and taxes, sources say.
Federal authorities investigating Los Angeles City Atty. Rocky Delgadillo and his wife are seeking information about her consulting business and taxes, according to sources familiar with the inquiry.
Federal authorities investigating Los Angeles City Atty. Rocky Delgadillo and his wife are seeking information about her consulting business and taxes, according to sources familiar with the inquiry.
via CNBC Top News and Analysis on 8/20/08
The financial industry was hit with more downgrades and dire predictions, continuing a drumbeat of bad news for the already battered sector.
via L.A. Times - Education on 8/20/08
They are hired as part of an ambitious, high-stakes effort to improve some of the lowest-achieving campuses.
Tim Sullivan's first day as Markham Middle School's principal was Monday. He quickly found out that the computers didn't recognize his employee identification number and that he didn't have enough staff to register about 300 sixth-graders for classes the next day.
Tim Sullivan's first day as Markham Middle School's principal was Monday. He quickly found out that the computers didn't recognize his employee identification number and that he didn't have enough staff to register about 300 sixth-graders for classes the next day.
via News by editor@dailynews.com (George B. Sánchez, Staff Writer) on 8/19/08
Just five months after Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa took control of 10 of Los Angeles' lowest-performing schools, principals at seven of the sites requested transfers that left the mayor's reform partnership searching for replacements a few months before classes started.
via L.A. Times - California | Local News on 8/20/08
The L.A. County supervisors' measure will allow authorities to hold taggers and their parents liable for civil damages.
Seeking to hit graffiti vandals and their parents in the pocketbook, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously approved a measure that would allow authorities to hold taggers -- and their parents -- liable for civil damages. It takes effect in 30 days. 
Seeking to hit graffiti vandals and their parents in the pocketbook, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously approved a measure that would allow authorities to hold taggers -- and their parents -- liable for civil damages. It takes effect in 30 days.
via Ron Kaye L.A. by Ron Kaye on 8/20/08
Times gets scooped on feds probe of Rocky -- it's Sam Zell's fault
Clearly, there can't be any other explanation for the San Francisco Chronicle of all papers scooping the Times on the federal probe of City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo -- it's got to be Zell's fault, isn't everything?
Another day, another L.A. "feelgood" law that will be selectively enforced
You got to have a laugh at the County Supervisors passing a law to hold parents liable for the cost of cleaning up after their kids spray-paint graffiti all over the place.
Clearly, there can't be any other explanation for the San Francisco Chronicle of all papers scooping the Times on the federal probe of City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo -- it's got to be Zell's fault, isn't everything?
Another day, another L.A. "feelgood" law that will be selectively enforced
You got to have a laugh at the County Supervisors passing a law to hold parents liable for the cost of cleaning up after their kids spray-paint graffiti all over the place.
via Zuma's LA Daily Blog by zumadogg@gmail.com (zuma dogg) on 8/18/08
A GOOD COMMENT FROM ZUMA'S INBOX: ZumaDogg@Mayor09.com: Zuma - Could you raise the Question to City Council and challenge them topost quarterly financial report on their WEB site: Budget...
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via Zuma's LA Daily Blog by zumadogg@gmail.com (zuma dogg) on 8/19/08
LOS ANGELES COUNTY BOARD OF STUPIDVISORS PASS GRAFFITI LAW TO HOLD PARENTS ACCOUNTABLE: LOL! Let me be perfectly blunt. YOU ARE NOT GOING TO BE ENFORCING YOUR WAY OUT OF THIS GRAFFITI PROBLEM AND...
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via Mayor Sam's Sister City - Home of Los Angeles Politics by noreply@blogger.com (Michael Higby) on 8/20/08
Controversy continues over the harassment of the Shaw Family at Leimert Park last weekend as they sought signatures for petitions to place Jamiel's Law on the ballot. Debate has continued over who was involved and who was responsible for the law enforcement operation during which the Shaws and...
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via Business and financial news - CNNMoney.com on 8/20/08
Oil prices ended the day higher on Wednesday after a volatile trading day. A mixed government supply report showed a decline in gasoline stockpiles for the second consecutive week, and the largest jump in crude inventories in more than seven years. 
via Reuters: Business News on 8/19/08
ASPEN, Colo. (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Reserve must be ready to take action if slowing economic growth fails to curb inflation stemming from higher food and energy prices, two top Fed policy-makers said on Tuesday, indicating that higher interest rates may be needed. 
via Los Angeles Times - Top News on 8/19/08
The L.A. County supervisors' measure will allow authorities to hold taggers and their parents liable for civil damages.
Seeking to hit graffiti vandals and their parents in the pocketbook, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors today unanimously approved a measure that would allow authorities to hold taggers -- and their parents -- liable for civil damages.
Seeking to hit graffiti vandals and their parents in the pocketbook, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors today unanimously approved a measure that would allow authorities to hold taggers -- and their parents -- liable for civil damages.
