Bone Bungling at Old Cemetery

I would like to give my DNA to see if it is my g.g.Grandfather skull they found. RE: my other comment they died 12-05-1831.

My great greatgrandfather Cristobal Palomares was buried in front of the Plaza church along with Jose Avila and Capt. Pacheco. Avila & Pacheco died at the battle of Cauenga Pass.I was told thier bodies are under concrete. You would think the Church or the City of Los Angeles woud discover thier remainsor put up a plaque remembering them.This is a matter of record.

If you are true reporter do your job and research the problem and report the facts look at the EIR and the group who did the monitoring of the project...

Wouldn't common sense kick and tell you to stop the excavations and construction? Read all the reports you want, but this is molina doing what she does best.

It surprises me that none of the journalists reporting on this so far seem to have even looked at or quoted from the environmental documentation (all of which is readily available online). They've just relied on a few quotations & called them facts. This leaves me with the sense that I only have half the story. I find this subject interesting and did locate several of the original documents done for the environmental compliance work. Even though consultants always provide an easy target, the documents you can find online do point to the possibility of finding human remains. Everyone wants to then point a finger--at the county, the Plaza foundation, the consultants. But the consultants did what they were supposed to do & included an appropriate, responsible mitigation measure in the EIR. It looks like the mitigation measure might not have unfolded quite the way it should have...

In any case, the topic of the Plaza is important for our city, and it deserves much better reporting than it's received so far, in the Weekly & elsewhere. I for one would like to see more actual *reporting* (i.e., reading some of the actual documents & doing some research) and much less empty finger pointing.

Has the reporter done her homework and actually read the EIR? I've seen it and it clearly warned that human remains, including Native Americans, were probably still interred in the cemetery, and would be disturbed if there was any digging in the area. And doesn't campo santo just mean "cemetery" in Spanish?

Unacceptable is a nice word for the typical practice by government agencies of hiring the same bad contractors over and over with no real consequences for shoddy work. These outfits usually contribute to elected officials and are politically connected. They often hire retired and ex government bureaucrats to work and consult for them. It's a merry go round of tax payer fund abuse and bad work. I wondered when the Native American and Mexican conflicts would really start to bubble up. You could say it's an old skeleton rattling in the California closet.

This is a very disturbing story. gloria molina will push her agenda no matter what the cost. I can't believe what this lady does and then she plasters her name on it and tells the world what a great thing she has done for the community. There are many more places that she could have put this museum, how many abadoned buildings does she have control over? Totally disgusted by her actions and this is one "Mexican-American" museum I will not be visiting. I am extremely embarrased by her, she puts all Mexican-American's behind the eight ball for her own benefit!

LOS POBLADORES 200. We are the descendants of the founding families of Los Angeles,and we too are involved as we also have our ancestors which were buried there. I myself found 18 ancestorw including 3 Great Grandmothers and 1 Great Grandfather and the rest Great Grand Aunts and Uncles. We are UNITED with Andy Salas and the Gabrieleno Band of Mission Indians. We together with the Gabrielenos want our ancestors remains reburied with dignity and a Memorial Park in the location. I am President of Los Pobladores Maria G Benitez