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October 13, 2010
Was Public Comment Period for Subway to Sea a Sham? MTA Staff Suggests Route Before Citizens Fully Weigh In
L.A. Mayor Antonio VillaraigosaMetropolitan Transportation Authority staffers have recommended a route for the Westside subway extension, also known as Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's legacy project called Subway to the Sea, LAist reports. Some communities will be less than please ... More >>
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October 26, 2010
Mayor Villaraigosa Aims For School-Bus Crash Headlines In Boyle Heights
Mayor V. with President Obama.That fatal collision involving a school bus in Boyle Heights provided too many television news cameras for Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to pass up. Late Monday afternoon he seemed to be there just behind the ambulances. And on Tuesday morning he will c ... More >>
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October 28, 2010
Subway to Sea: Antonio Villaraigosa Still Boasts Rail Line Will Fix Gridlock
L.A. Mayor Antonio VillaraigosaHyped by Los Angeles County Supervisor Don Knabe as a "historic" vote, Metropolitan Transportation Authority board members only approved a draft environmental impact report for the Subway to the Sea that still needs a lot of ironing out over the next several mo ... More >>
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October 29, 2010
Ever the Slick Salesman, Antonio Villaraigosa Turned to Twitter to Combat Opponents of Subway to Sea
L.A. Mayor Antonio VillaraigosaAt the Metropolitan Transportation Authority meeting yesterday, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa wasn't taking any chances that his legacy project -- Subway to the Sea, or maybe we should start calling it "Subway to Westwood" -- might somehow be, uh, dera ... More >>
News
November 11, 2010
Rushed and Confused L.A. City Council
Library, weed, DWP measures aimed for ballot all get short shrift
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November 18, 2010
Antonio Villaraigosa shames L.A., slamming the California Citizens Redistricting Commission
Villaraigosa's top L.A. redistricting consultants Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa embarrassingly complained that no L.A. resident has a shot at today's lottery in which eight Californians will be picked for the commission that draws up the state's voting districts. The lottery live-streams at We D ... More >>
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December 2, 2010
L.A. Has a Jammed 2011 Ballot
Residents will be asked to rein in DWP, save libraries from Villaraigosa's pen
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December 10, 2010
Reform At Corrupt L.A. Department Of Water And Power Takes Another Step Backward, With Help Of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa
PHOTO BY TED SOQUIThe mayor is in Chicago today -- a fitting host for his Chicago politicsUpdated after the jump: Will there be enough council strength to override the mayor's veto next Wednesday? Originally posted on Dec. 8 at 12:30 p.m. Given the amount of time and talk devoted to the Los ... More >>
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December 10, 2010
'Parent Trigger' Supporters Face Intimidation Tactics in School Reform Battle in Compton, Antonio Villaraigosa Jumps into Fray
Ted SoquiMcKinley Elementary School in ComptonUPDATE: L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa says school reform in Compton "isn't about pointing fingers or dragging our feet." More comments from Villaraigosa after break. First reported at 7 a.m. As expected, the battle over control of McKinley Ele ... More >>
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January 6, 2011
L.A. Mayor Villaraigosa Was Made Aware Of Downtown NFL Stadium Plans In March, 2009
One vision for a downtown NFL stadium.Why are we not surprised? Turns out a memo to L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa proves that he was made aware of a downtown stadium proposal as early as March 2009. Journalist Ron Kaye, who unearthed the document, is calling it "Antonio's Dirty Little Secre ... More >>
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January 25, 2011
Maria Elena Durazo and Richard Riordan Lead Mixed Coalition on Measure L, To Save Los Angeles' Shuttered Libraries
Villaraigosa and the L.A. City Council still sit on millions of dollars in personal fat.Finally, a big coalition is urging approval of Measure L on the March 8 ballot, which would save the decimated Los Angeles public library system from anti-library Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who, as mentio ... More >>
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January 27, 2011
Governor Jerry Brown Gives California Mayors (Including Villaraigosa) Stern Talking-to Over Sneaky Redevelopment Agencies
daylife.comThe L.A. Mayor and Governor BrownCalifornia's redevelopment agencies (RDAs) are becoming the total superstars of the budget crisis. Sure, higher education is getting totally screwed and Medi-Cal is all but lost to the wind in Governor Jerry Brown's stingy fiscal proposal, but his ... More >>
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January 27, 2011
The Wave's Betty Pleasant Says Villaraigosa Administration 'Rife With Anti-Black Racism'
L.A. Mayor Antonio VillaraigosaThe Los Angeles Wave's Betty Pleasant, a longtime columnist who knows how to shake things up, dropped one of her signature bombs last night, charging that Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's administration is "rife with anti-Black racism." Pleasant wrote ... More >>
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January 31, 2011
Mayor Villaraigosa's Friends, Including City-NFL-Stadium Deal Hopeful Anschutz Corp., Aim $1 Mil at his School Board Picks
Mayor V's candidates get $1 million in support.L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa wants to keep his grip on the L.A. school board, and he's got some friends in high places helping him out. One of those friends, the Anshutz Corp., has given $100,000 to the Coalition for School Reform, a committe ... More >>
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February 23, 2011
L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Blames City's Crap Street Conditions on Ailing Bus System
When in doubt, blame it on the busWe knew City Hall and the Metropolitan Transit System favored rail over wheel when it came to public transportation, but Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's unabashed bus diss on KNX news radio this morning almost made us choke on our flamin' hot Cheetos ... More >>
News
February 24, 2011
L.A.'s Library Measure L
There's lots of hidden City Hall fat to fuel the 73 shuttered libraries
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February 25, 2011
L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Wants a Six-Foot Security Wall Erected Around His Mansion
Can we get a moat up in here, while we're at it?The mayor is afraid. Very afraid. Much like the L.A. City Councilmembers, who quiver at the thought of potential Los Angeles Loughners with an eye on City Hall, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa believes he is in danger, and therefore needs a six-foot ... More >>
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February 25, 2011
California Redevelopment Goes to Wall Street: L.A. Mayor Begs Governor Brown for Mercy, County Supervisor Calls It 'Loan Sharking'
Pretty please, Governor?Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is intent on saving the L.A. Community Redevelopment Agency -- no matter what it takes. The mayor's latest plea to Governor Jerry Brown (who plans to ax the state's redevelopment agencies unless he's presented with a satisfactory ... More >>
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February 28, 2011
Mayor Villaraigosa's Very Own Border Fence: Whatever Happened to 'Bridges Not Walls'?
This land: na'cho landNews of Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's application for a six-foot security fence around his Windsor Square mansion took off quicker than a border coyote on the desert hustle last Friday, riling outrage from most and a "Who cares?" from few. In the LA Weekly's ... More >>
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March 28, 2011
L.A. City Workers Spell Mayor Villaraigosa's Name Wrong -- For All The World to See
Villaraigosa. We think.Rough couple years for the mayor who was at one time Latino politics' Great Brown Hope. L.A. city bankruptcy was actually a common concern among local leaders last year, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa got caught taking valuable sports and entertainment tickets from people ... More >>
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March 31, 2011
L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's Failed Green Revolution: City Cuts Losses, Sells Clean Tech 'Cornerstone'
sci-arcThe mayor in October 2010, with Clean Tech architect hopefulsThroughout his campaign, his rocky term and his innumerable trips to Washington, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has sold himself as Mother Nature's closest ally. His devotion to expanding freeway-mangled Southern Cal ... More >>
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April 1, 2011
Mayor Villaraigosa in Deal to Pay $42,000 For Accepting Free Lakers, Oscar Awards Tickets Without Reporting Them as Gifts as Required
Fox 11 NewsVillaraigosa taking in a Lakers game.The other shoe dropped in the ticket scandal that dogged L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa last year. And it was a soft, fluffy ballet slipper. According to the Los Angeles Times, the mayor has agreed to pay $42,000 in fines to settle probes by t ... More >>
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April 13, 2011
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's 2011 'State of the City' Message: Rip Up the Teacher Union Contract if You Want School Reform
zap2itMayor Antonio Villaraigosa is a father with several grandchildren.Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa gets major credit for two seldom-seen qualities tonight in his 2011 State of the City address: 1) He's got an attention span, focused on LAUSD's awful schools -- which constitute the ... More >>
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April 26, 2011
Mayor Villaraigosa Ribbed by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, 'Glee' Producer
FoxMayor V. vs. 'Glee.'Wow. You know you're in low-approval-rating territory when the mayor of New York gets more love than you even when it comes to art-and-culture in your own city. That was the rap for L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa this week. After a 60 Minutes profile of local billiona ... More >>
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April 27, 2011
Antonio Villaraigosa's 2011-2012 Budget Debate Starts Today: Can the Mayor Stop City Hall's Overspending of $52,168 an Hour?
Firing the budget proposal debate: fire safety cutsLast week, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced his proposed 2011-12 budget, designed to stop City Hall from overspending by $1.25 million per day, or $52,168 per hour. Next, the L.A. City Council must tell Villaraigosa thumbs up or ... More >>
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April 27, 2011
L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Soliciting Donations to Pay For Ethics Violations Fines Related to Ticketgate
Villaraigosa and his children at the Oscars.We likened the $42,000 in fines Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa will have to pay for accepting valuable sports and entertainment tickets from folks who do business with City Hall to a light slap on the wrist. Well, it looks like the mayor will don kid g ... More >>
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May 9, 2011
Antonio Villaraigosa Still Hasn't Planted One Million Trees, But Is That a Good Thing?
L.A. Mayor Antonio VillaraigosaSo we were just reminded about Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's "Million Trees L.A." program -- the much-heralded, but long-suffering initiative the mayor kicked off in 2006 to prove his green cred to environmentalists. It's been long-suffering in th ... More >>
News
May 12, 2011
Los Angeles: Broke and Broken
City Council clueless about vast, hidden costs in Villaraigosa's $6.9 billion budget
Blogs
May 12, 2011
Does Million Trees L.A. Honcho Lisa Sarno Think Her Job Is To Help People Make Friends?
Villaraigosa aide Lisa Sarno, middle, receives an award.It seems we struck a nerve at the Los Angeles Mayor's Office the other day when we wrote about Antonio Villaraigosa's long-suffering Million Trees LA project. The much-publicized program kicked off in 2006, and few people, if any, know ... More >>
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May 23, 2011
Enemies Mark Ridley-Thomas, Bernard Parks Unite Over Metro Light-Rail Funding Along Crenshaw/LAX Route
Mark Ridley-Thomas wants Crenshaw/LAX elements worth $400 million.Metro has the cash to build two crucial elements of its Crenshaw/LAX light-rail line, even though there's been some foot-dragging about going forward on the MTA board. The cash can be found, according a Metro analysis released ... More >>
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May 25, 2011
Charlie Beck, L.A. Police Chief, Required to Cut $40 Million to Balance Budget, But Given No Guidance
Kyle T. Websteroops Today L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa will receive amendments made by the City Council to his 2011-12 proposed City budget. The big issue is more than $40 million that Villaraigosa had wanted to borrow on commercial paper. That debt plan has now been trashed, and the bur ... More >>
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June 17, 2011
U.S. Conference of Mayors Picks Antonio '11 Percent' Villaraigosa to Lead Them, ah, Somewhere
Well, the folks at the U.S. Conference of Mayors have decided to make Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa their new president -- guess they don't read the L.A. papers! It wasn't too long ago Los Angeles magazine blared the word "Failure" across his mid-section for a now famous cover, and ... More >>
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June 20, 2011
Antonio Villaraigosa Does His Best Michael Bloomberg Impression on "Meet The Press"
Antonio Villaraigosa on "Meet the Press"Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa made his debut on "Meet the Press" on Sunday, appearing in his newest incarnation as a transpartisan truth-teller.Doing his best impersonation of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Villaraigosa bashed Republicans and Democrats alik ... More >>
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June 29, 2011
L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Gets His Wall
The Getty House: For the mayor's eyes only.In February, we reported that L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, spooked off the Gabrielle Giffords shooting, had applied for a six-foot security wall to be erected around his "Getty House" mansion in Windsor Square. The neighborhood's homeowners ass ... More >>
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July 6, 2011
Toll Lanes For Urban L.A. Freeways (10, 110) See Groundbreaking Today: Will You Pay?
Mayor Villaraigosa, Mark Ridley-Thomas and Richard Katz at the groundbreaking.Are you ready to pay to use carpool lanes, L.A? They've been a failure in terms of getting people to ride together. And the just-ended program that allowed 85,000 hybrid-car owners to purchase permits for them on ... More >>
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July 8, 2011
Gaye Williams: L.A. Mayor Villaraigosa Names New Chief of Staff
L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa ... yawn ... announced his ... yawn ... new chief of staff ... yawn ... today. (Sort of). And if we were said jefe, one Gaye Williams, onetime deputy to Mayor Richard Riordan and an adviser to mayoral hopeful Austin Beutner, we'd be bummed that Villaraigosa's ... More >>
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July 14, 2011
Beverly Hills Versus the Westside Subway
L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa ... yawn ... announced his ... yawn ... new chief of staff ... yawn ... today. (Sort of). And if we were said jefe, one Gaye Williams, onetime deputy to Mayor Richard Riordan and an adviser to mayoral hopeful Austin Beutner, we'd be bummed that Villaraigosa's ... More >>
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July 20, 2011
L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Calls Press Conference to Rip on Mitt Romney During Republican's Valley Visit; No One Cares
What if the mayor called a press conference and no one came?We try to avoid ripping on the mayor merely for the sake of ripping on the mayor. Like, he can't really help that he looks half-asleep all the time -- think there's something not quite right with his eyelids -- and the six-foot fence ... More >>
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August 2, 2011
Ticketgate: Fabian Nuñez, Schwarzenegger BFF, Pays It Forward, Helps L.A. Mayor Villaraigosa With His Ethics Fines
Nuñez, far left, and Villaraigosa: Fast friendsSo L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa went to a few gratis NBA games and awards shows, courtesy of some bedfellow developers -- stinky and elitist, but we've seen worse. The aftermath of Ticketgate, however, has far out-stunk the crime itself. Vil ... More >>
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August 18, 2011
L.A. Bike Plan Troubles
Nuñez, far left, and Villaraigosa: Fast friendsSo L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa went to a few gratis NBA games and awards shows, courtesy of some bedfellow developers -- stinky and elitist, but we've seen worse. The aftermath of Ticketgate, however, has far out-stunk the crime itself. Vil ... More >>
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September 21, 2011
Speaker Boehner Ignores L.A. Mayor in Capitol: Villaraigosa's Big Plans for Westside Subway Fade Further Into Oblivion
How do I get this fool back to L.A.Can L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa just admit the pending Westside Subway extension, formerly known as the "Subway to the Sea" (or, even more optimistically, "the most utilized subway in the nation, maybe the world"), is permanently on hold? Every time he ... More >>
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September 23, 2011
L.A. County Redistricting Without Maps: Do People Vote Based On Race?
Antonio Villaraigosa: Proof of a post-racial Los Angeles?The L.A. County redistricting battle will come to its dramatic conclusion next Tuesday. In two previous posts, we've tried to explain the demographics and the politics of the issue with the help of some unconventional visual aids: pie chart ... More >>
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October 28, 2011
Roosevelt High Parents Beg L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa: Don't Make Us Your Pet Project
Twitter via @villaraigosa"At Roosevelt High School, encouraging students to strive for excellence."Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has grown really attached a few key issues since taking office. King among them: environmentalism, the subway, bicycle friendliness and education reform. U ... More >>
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November 25, 2011
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Tells Occupy L.A. To Leave By 12:01 a.m. Monday
Mayor Antonio VillaraigosaMayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced late this afternoon that City Hall Park, the home of Occupy L.A. for the last 56 days, will close at 12:01 a.m. on Monday.LAPD Chief Charlie Beck said that police would move to clear the park at some later, unspecified time, after Occ ... More >>
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December 6, 2011
Antonio Villaraigosa's $30,000 a Day Trip to Asia: Another Empty Gesture as 13 Percent Jobless Rate Grips Los Angeles
KCETAntonio Villaraigosa with other people's money.Thankfully, we have CitywatchLA explaining how Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa spends bundles of cash on pointless gestures. His trip to Asia, which will have zero effect on the Los Angeles economy, is burning $30,000 a day. Villaraigosa says he' ... More >>
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December 21, 2011
Occupy L.A. Costs Will Mean More Budget Cuts, Says Mayor Villaraigosa -- $400K for Lawn Damage, $700K for Police Raid?
Associated PressThe once-grassy wasteland outside L.A. City Hall.Update: City Administrative Officer Miguel Santana says City Hall park repairs will likely cost even more than $400,000. Details at the bottom. Originally posted December 21 at 10:35 a.m. Well before Occupy L.A. was kicked off ... More >>
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January 3, 2012
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Screws Over L.A. With $100 Million Credit Bubble That Could Burst Once He Leaves Office
Mayor Vanishing Veracity hits a new low.Los Angeles city leaders are apparently no more responsible or accountable than the self-serving Wall Street banksters who set up America to fall with an impossible Jenga tower of home loans. A new Los Angeles Times expose outlines a series of politica ... More >>
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January 6, 2012
Occupy L.A.'s Octopus Mural Declared an 'Artifact,' Auctioned off by City
Daily KOSThis old thing?Los Angeles city officials are so weird and flip-floppy about graffiti. On the one hand, they act all precious about our status as "mural capital of the world"; on the other, it's taken them over a decade (and counting) to come up with a mural ordinance that doesn't re ... More >>
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January 20, 2012
Should China Own the L.A. Subway?
Good luck, China -- first you'll have to deal with Beverly Hills.Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is getting desperate. His ambitious plan to squeeze 30 years of public-transit construction into a mere 10 -- by borrowing $10 billion or so from the federal government -- has been scoffed ... More >>
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January 25, 2012
Villaraigosa's SOTU Response For U.S. Conference of Mayors: We Interpret For You
Dennis RomeroVillaraigosa.L.A.'s own Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa gave the official response to President Obama's State of the Union address last night for the U.S. Conference of Mayors. Mayor V. is the president of the group. (And we know he didn't use his sizable staff of taxpayer-funded pub ... More >>
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