Email Author Mars Melnicoff

2011 Stories by Mars Melnicoff

• Los Angeles Community College District Board of Trustees March 8, 2011 Election Results

  published Mar 09, 2011

  Update #2: Reformer pulls into second and talks with L.A. Weekly! see Seat 5 below. Update: Numbers are rolling in: looking like more of the same, see below. Absentee votes can't always predict the el... More >>

• Los Angeles Unified School District Board March 8, 2011 Election Results

  published Mar 08, 2011

  Update #2: Kayser talks to L.A. Weekly. See below. Update: Numbers are continuing in the same direction as more votes are counted. See Below. Absentee votes are counted for the Los Angeles Unified Sch... More >>

• Mona Field, Los Angeles Community College District Board of Trustees President, Accused With Others, of Fraud, Bond Abuse: Will Voters Hold Her Accountabler

  published Mar 08, 2011

  Los Angeles Community College District Board of Trustees members have been thrust into the spotlight in the past week by an L.A. Times 6-part investigative series exposing waste, fraud and general mis... More >>

• Stephen Box, City Council District 4 Challenger, Has Best Balls in L.A. Tweeting on His Behalf

  published Mar 08, 2011

  Stephen Box, candidate for City Council District 4, has food trucks tweeting up a storm for him. @greatballsot (Great Balls On Tires) tweets: "You've voted us as best BALLS in L.A., now vote for BOX... More >>

• First Successful Hand Transplant in Western U.S. is Achieved at UCLA -- after the Fingerprints got a Background Check

  published Mar 08, 2011

  rSurgeons at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center performed a 14-and-a-half hour hand transplant this weekend.The hand traveled from San Diego to become the first ever hand transplant in the western U.S... More >>

• L.A. Unified School District Board Race: Hot Seat is District 5

  published Mar 07, 2011

  With Yolie Flores deciding not to return to this post, the hot seat in the L.A. Unified School District Board elections tomorrow will be District 5, the only open seat with no incumbents running. Atwa... More >>

• Incumbent Los Angeles Community College District Board of Trustees Desperate, Reform Candidate Slate Emerges

  published Mar 07, 2011

  Update: Mark Isler for Seat 3: also Ron Kaye Clean Sweep endorsed. See below. As a reform slate of candidates emerges in the Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) Board of Trustees race, incu... More >>

• Big Billboards Equal Big Issue for West Hollywood Elections: Watch Out For Measure A

  published Mar 06, 2011

  Originally posted 3/2/11: See update at the end of the post: Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky and Congressman Henry Waxman both oppose Measure A. Measure A is expected to bring several hundred new voters ou... More >>

• Louis Pugliese, L.A. Unified School District Board Candidate: United Teachers Los Angeles Union's Once Strong Muscle Getting Flabby

  published Mar 04, 2011

  Not one, but two United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) union endorsed candidates for the upcoming March 8 Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Board elections have had that endorsement snatched aw... More >>

• Tom LaBonge's Yacht Problem

  published March 3, 2011

  Many children have played full-court basketball on Tomás O'Grady's living room hardwood floor — though the floor... More >>

• Californian Sex Offender Moves to Officiates Match In Arizona, Sparks Quiet United States Tennis Association Official Staff Background Checks

  published Mar 01, 2011

  update after the jump The Enterprise Report brought attention today to the United States Tennis Association: The United State Tennis Association (USTA), secretly and quietly launched a program to bac... More >>

• President of Community College League of California: L.A. Times Expose Timing is Dirty Trick

  published Mar 01, 2011

  Yes, it could be argued that the timing of the L.A. Times expose on the Los Angeles Community College District's misspending of an alarming percentage of $5.7 billion in bonds comes at an awkward time... More >>

• Tomas O'Grady, District 4 City Council Challenger Calls Shuttering Libraries "Biggest Scam"

  published Feb 28, 2011

  Tomas O'Grady, the L.A. Times endorsed City Council District 4 challenger, told LA Weekly that Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and City Council's decision to shutter L.A. Libraries two days a week "was the... More >>

• Jamillah Moore, President of Los Angeles City College, and Others Buy Time before Trial for Racism

  published Feb 24, 2011

  Los Angeles Community College President Jamillah Moore has managed to push back her trial for wrongful termination for the third freaking time -- now the show (set for yesterday) will go on March 30.... More >>

• L.A.'s Library Measure L

  published February 24, 2011

  Last summer, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and the City Council achieved a grim milestone. With little discussion,... More >>

• California Governor Jerry Brown's Plan to Abolish Redevelopment Agencies: 1601 Vine Street in Los Angeles is Exhibit A

  published Feb 22, 2011

  rLos Angeles City Hall watchdog Jack Humpreville is making the case that Gov. Jerry Brown's plan to wipe out Community Redevelopment Agencies has an "Exhibit A" in the dubious money pit at 1601 Vine ... More >>

• Lucas John, West Hollywood City Council Candidate: Meth Addiction More Pressing Issue Than Banning Fur

  published Feb 22, 2011

  Forget all that talk on the campaign trail about a "fur free" West Hollywood... City Council candidate Lucas John wants to ban the sale of crystal meth pipes. If elected, the 28-year-old challenger t... More >>