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Sylvia Robles

Is this subject to RICO? I mean the actions of CRA?

Ashton Wallton

I just paiid $ 22.89 for an iP a d 2-64GB and my girlfriend loves her Panasonic Lumix GF 1 Camera that we got for $ 38.76 there arriving tomorrow by UPS. I will never pay such expensive retail prices in stores again. Especially when I also sold a 40 inch LED TV to my boss for $ 657 which only cost me $ 62.81 to buy. Here is the website we use to get it all from, bit.ly/r8qxL7

Laweeklysucks

the la weekly makes it quite clear on how they think of the privatization of public schools when they describe barr in such nice terms. Barr and his ilk are robber barons who are stealing money to make themselves richer. The name of the game now a days is which billionaire is richer. It doesn't matter who they rob, cheat, or steal from, the game to get to the top is the most important.

dee

Why there has not been investigation into the million of dollars CRA, Councilwoma Janice Hahn,Cultural Affairs and the Mayor has taken from Watts. Have anyone came out to Watts on a tourof the blight that has not change in the last twenty years in Watts. So why is Watts's fund going toother parts of Los Angeles.

dto510

"Families are staying away in droves." Is staying away really an activity that can be done in droves?

Tibby Rothman

dto510, like your sense of humor.

Reilleyfam

It's the same all over the state. All these RDAs do is dump precious and scarce public funds into the hands of greedy developers who build stuf that does not improve blight, would have been built anyway for profit OR something utterly useless that would/should never have been built. No jobs (other than RDA employees) are created & nothing is improved other than developers getting an undeserved/unneeded public subsidy. The big winners are the politicians who get "kickbacks" in the form of campaign contributions and under the table jobs for friends and family. In good times this would be a scandal but with the economy & public budgets the way they are this is literally criminal.

rdsathene

No small irony in not mentioning that Philip Anschutz, Eli Broad, and Steve Barr are the leaders in school privatization, which like redevelopment under Mayor Villaraigosa, funnels tons of taxpayer money into their greedy hands.

No mention and Barr's privatization projects, funded by Broad, Anschutz, and their plutocratic billionaire ilk exacerbate segregation, class inequality, and further marginalize cultures outside of the dominant reactionary WASP expectations? Barr is a visionary all right, he has played a major part in creating what the celebrated educator and author Jonathan Kozol terms "Savage Inequalities."

Kissy

Thank you Mr. Skeels for keeping such a watchful eye on the greedy charter interests.

Tibby Rothman

@rdsathene, Tibby Rothman here, the bylined writer of the above story. Barr went into school districts and parts of town where few invested major resources, financial or otherwise. A couple of years ago, I talked to a Green Dot student who was the first in his family (meaning siblings, parents, grandparents) to get into college--definitely economic development there.

rdsathene

You might want to click on my avatar icon to read my biography. I'm an education writer and activist who has enough dirt on Barr and Green Dot to write an entire book on them. I've been covering them for over a decade. If you research beyond their slick marketing literature, then you will find an entirely different narrative than Barr as superman. A single anecdote of a Green Dot student succeeding, while I'm glad for that individual, doesn't make for a cogent case for school privatization or charter executives stuffing money into their pockets. Look into Green Dot's remediation rates, and then let's talk about their "results."

rickabrams

CRA/LA has nothing to do with blight. Its sole purpose is to funnel tax dollars to private developers who then support councilmembers.

Schools Ha, what a laugh! What planet are you from? CRA/LA has nothing to do with making LA a better place to live. It's about giving tax dollars to millionaires and billionaires.

It's a vast waste land of corruption and incompetence which has taken $3 BILLION tax dollars away from the city and schools. If we had abolished the CRA/LA in 2004, LA would be solvent today and we would not be downsizing fire stations, lay off employees and have the worst roads in the nation.