Subject:

Ed Boks

  • Blogs

    July 16, 2009

    Pound Dog Stu Gets New Leash on Life

    Last week Stu, a 10-year-old rescued dog that has been incarcerated by the city's Animal Services Department since 2005, had faced extermination July 23. His case had gone all the way to the state Court of Appeals, which recently affirmed the right of the county to put him down. Following a Monday m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2009

    Ed Boks Exits and a Dog Named Stu Faces Termination

    Today was Ed Boks' last day on the job as general manager of L.A.'s Animal Services Department. The Ed Boksformer Christian minister ("Religious values," he recently advised on his personal blog, "call upon us to show kindness and mercy to animals") has easily been the most controversial appointee t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 24, 2009

    Bulletin: Animal Services GM Ed Boks Resigns

    A swift and startling series of events has ended with the resignation of Ed Boks, the embattled general manager of the city's Department of Animal Services. (More to follow.) Here is a statement released by the mayor's office:MAYOR VILLARAIGOSA'S STATEMENT ON RESIGNATION OF ANIMAL SERVICES GENERAL M ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 27, 2009

    City Council Members Not Done With Ed Boks

    On Wednesday Ed Boks announced that L.A.'s Department of Animal Services would resume its distribution of $30 coupons and $70 full-fee vouchers for the department's spay-neuter program. Two days before, members of the City Council's Public Safety Committee had raked the general manager over the coal ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 24, 2009

    City Council to Boks: Restore Spay-Neuter Pet Vouchers

    L.A.'s Animal Services general manager Ed Boks left a City Council committee hearing with his tail between his legs yesterday, after being grilled about his unilateral decision to suspend his agency's spay-neuter voucher program. Last week Boks, claiming his department had to plug a huge budget gap, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2009

    ALF: We Trashed Villaraigosa Deputy's Parents' Home

    The "communique" from a group claiming to be the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) struck a triumphant note:"On Dec. 30th we decorated Jimmy Blackmans parents front porch at [address removed] in LA with red paint and glued their locks. This action was done to bring attention to the blood being spilled ... More >>

  • News

    September 18, 2008

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  • News

    February 28, 2008

    L.A.'s Toothless Spaying Law

    A new neutering rule appeases the wrathful animal-rights lobby but offers little hope

  • News

    December 22, 2005

    A Billionaire’s Bark

    Surgeon-inventor is behind shakeup of L.A.’s animal services

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