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 Housingfrom
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 Drivingfrom
CBS 2 - KCAL 9 - Los Angeles - Southern California - LA Breaking News, Weather, Traffic, SportsCalifornia 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 Choicefrom
knbc.com - Local NewsSen. 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 hikefrom
L.A. Times - California Local NewsSchwarzenegger 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 Strikefrom
CBS 2 - KCAL 9 - Los Angeles - Southern California - LA Breaking News, Weather, Traffic, SportsMembers 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 venturefrom
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 Showfrom
LA Daily Blog.com by zumadogg@gmail.com (zuma dogg)
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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 billionsfrom
Los Angeles Times - OpinionNo 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 Weaknessfrom
CNBC Top News and Analysis12:29 PM (7 hours ago)
LAX Service Workers Vote to Strikefrom
KTLA The CW Where Los Angeles Lives - NewsLAX-- 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 Peakfrom
LAist by Zach Behrens
As of last May, these were the 4 remaining rail options (
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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 storyfrom
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...
Pictured: (11.02.10) The "Bad Boys" of LA City News and LA City Council Chambers (Left: LA City News Publisher/Writer, Dave Elliott; Right: Speaker, Pitbull in China Shop, Zuma Dogg) 
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An elusive serial killer, linked to 10 slayings in South Los Angeles and Inglewood over nearly two decades, resurfaced early last year to kill again, Los Angeles police officials said.
The LAPD has announced a checkpoint in an effort to get more drunk drivers off the road. Tonight from 6:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m., the intersection of Sepulveda Blvd at Nordoff in Panorama City will be host to that checkpoint. Why this location? The LAPD says that "during the past year, Panorama City has experienced over 82 collisions involving an intoxicated driver. In addition, as of July 19, 2008, there have been over 485 “Hit and Run” traffic collisions in the Mission Area."
