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January 7, 2009
Rap Names for L.A. Politicians
What's in a name? Ask MyRapName, a Web site that automatically generates a rap-singer identity for you after you enter your first name and last initial. We did this with the names of some Los Angeles' leading statesmen and stateswomen -- just in case they require more street cred for their next elec ... More >>
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February 4, 2009
Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup
Scorched Universal Studios Sets Back for Summer Associated Press reports that the tourist destination will have rebuilt its New York streets, seen in Spider-Man 2 and Transformers, in time for midsummer. The N.Y. neighborhood and other movie-set attractions burned during last June's massive backlot ... More >>
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February 16, 2009
Queer Town: Villaraigosa Breaks Bread with Rick Warren
A few days after gays and lesbians took part in national Valentine's Day-timed protests against Proposition 8's November victory, evangelical minister Rick Warren addressed the city's annual Mayor's Prayer Breakfast at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in downtown L.A., the L.A. Times reporte ... More >>
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March 2, 2009
Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup
Bloody Sunday Two people were shot dead in Echo Park, and third was wounded by a suspect police describe as driving a black pickup truck. City News ServiceSink or Swim Southern California's faltering economy has led to an increase of people applying for lifeguard jobs. L.A. TimesNo Leap of Faith A n ... More >>
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March 19, 2009
Mike Antonovich's Ironic Cross
Supervisor Mike Antonovich has rolled up his gray-flannelled trousers to wade deep into the culture wars. Specifically, according to the L.A. Daily News, he wants the crucifix put back in the County Seal, now that the steel cross has been restored to the roof of the San Gabriel Mission, following it ... More >>
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March 25, 2009
Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup
DiFi Says No to Alt-Energy Desert Corridor California Senator Diane Feinstein is readying legislation to keep a large swath of the state's desert region off-limits to solar- and wind-power projects. L.A. TimesKeach Returns to Do Nixon Actor Stacy Keach, whose mild stroke last week removed him from t ... More >>
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July 24, 2008
War Over MTA's "Eternity" Tax
The "temporary" sales tax would last 30 years. It's already set Eastside against Westside
News
December 20, 2007
MTA's Plan to Gate L.A.
Miraculously, our subways use an honor system. The pencil pushers just hate that
News
July 19, 2007
Eli Broad's Grand Illusion
While real L.A. goes begging, City Hall pours millions into a plastic promenade
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October 26, 2006
Gross Political Negligence
While real L.A. goes begging, City Hall pours millions into a plastic promenade
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September 28, 2006
Death Watch
King/Drew slips away on county supervisors� watch
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February 19, 2004
We Endorse
L.A. Weekly�s recommendations in the major contested races of the March 2 primary
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January 22, 2004
Mr. Holloway Can Talk
A free-speech guide to angering county supervisors
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January 30, 2003
The Testimony of a Tree-Sitter
A free-speech guide to angering county supervisors
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February 28, 2002
The Toad vs. the Big Cement Company
L.A. County must take sides
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April 5, 2001
It�s Weird Out There
Politicians provide comic relief from election madness
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September 14, 2000
The First Step Back
Yes, needle exchanges can save lives. But they can do even more
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February 24, 2000
SHYLOCK 2000
Yes, needle exchanges can save lives. But they can do even more
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September 23, 1999
The Grateful Web
Our county wants to curtail your Net access
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September 16, 1999
Big-Spender Mike
Antonovich invites the gun lobby in � at taxpayers� expense
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May 27, 1999
County Living
Supes poised to enact living-wage ordinance � but not for part-timers
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September 1, 2009
Los Angeles' TV Station Fire
UCLA Dept. of Physics & AstronomyMount WilsonThe jury will always be out on whether a crashing tree makes noise in an unpopulated forest, but there's never any doubt about whether fires burn trees when no one sees it happening. Despite the absence of traditional wall-to-wall TV coverage of t ... More >>
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October 6, 2009
Is L.A. Unfairly Taxing Unincorporated-Area Businesses?
As the financial crisis tightens its grip on California, the pressure to squeeze out more local revenue is causing rifts between the city and county governments -- and the results are not pretty. Last week the County Board of Supervisors unanimously supported a letter proposed by Supervisor Gloria M ... More >>
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October 8, 2009
Did Feds Cause the Station-fire Disaster
Ugly allegations that fire officials reduced air support, tankers and backup crews
News
January 14, 2010
L.A. Opera’s $14 Million Imbroglio
Superstar Plácido Domingo pushes the company closer to worldwide acclaim — and financial collapse
News
February 5, 2010
Public Unwelcome at Grand Avenue
An obscure body of five will decide if Eli Broad gets public land for his art museum
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February 12, 2010
Sheriff Will Monitor Parolees That State Won't
The union representing Los Angeles Police Department officers made a rare move this week in praising the Sheriff's Department for stating it would essentially do the job of the state and monitor those convicts set free under state parole reform. " ... We thank Sheriff Lee Baca," reads a stat ... More >>
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February 16, 2010
County Gives Key Approval To Grand Avenue Park
A model of L.A. Civic Park.The County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved key leases and funding for what would arguably be the city's grandest public green space outside Griffith Park. The $83 million L.A. Civic Park, however, appears to have more concrete than greenery, and its expanse ... More >>
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May 26, 2010
L.A. County Also Considering Arizona Boycott
It looks like the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors will consider its own boycott of Arizona, following in the footsteps of Los Angeles and other cities upset over the state's controversial immigration law. The powerful, five-person body already appears to have two votes in hand: Super ... More >>
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May 27, 2010
L.A. County Leader Antonovich Calls Proposed Arizona Boycott 'Stupid'
We noted yesterday that the county's proposed boycott of Arizona would have at least one detractor: Supervisor Mike Antonovich. He didn't disappoint observers Thursday when he issued a press release calling the idea "stupid." "As elected officials, we take an oath to uphold the federal and s ... More >>
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May 28, 2010
Mark Ridley-Thomas Has Deciding Vote For Proposed County Boycott Of Arizona
The decider: Mark Ridley-Thomas.The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is scheduled to take up a proposal to initiate its own travel and business boycott against Arizona, and on Friday it looked like the vote would be close: Supervisor Don Knabe said he would oppose such a measure, putt ... More >>
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June 1, 2010
L.A. County Supervisors Vote To Boycott Arizona
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to boycott Arizona business and travel over the state's controversial immigration law. The vote was three to two on the powerful five member board, with Mark Ridley-Thomas casting the decider alongside the boycott's author, Gloria Mol ... More >>
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June 2, 2010
Steve Poizner Joins L.A. Supervisor Antonovich To Express Support For Arizona Immigration Law
Mike Antonovich.Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Poizner joined Los Angeles County Supervisor Mike Antonovich at a press conference Wednesday to support Arizona's controversial immigration law and to decry the county's recent vote to boycott the state. Antonovich argued that the boyc ... More >>
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August 5, 2010
L.A. County Supervisor Mike Antonovich Disses Prop. 8 Ruling
In this, the land of the liberal, home of the labor union, and arguably most pro-gay-rights metropolis this side of San Francisco, a guy like Los Angeles County Supervisor Mike Antonovich could feel out of place. But Antonovich, whose website features a photo of him wearing a cowboy hat and ... More >>
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November 16, 2010
Los Angeles County Bans Plastic Bags At Grocery And Convenience Stores
Bags be damned in L.A. County.Updated after the jump: Fixes date the ban would go into effect. First posted at 12:45 p.m. The California legislature couldn't do it. The city of Los Angeles hasn't done it. But the L.A. County Board of Supervisors got it done: It voted to ban plastic bags in g ... More >>
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November 23, 2010
Los Angeles County Bans Pot Shops In Unincorporated Areas
L.A. county says no to pot shops.L.A. County made good on its threat to ban medical marijuana dispensaries. In a 4-1 vote the county's Board of Supervisors moved to outlaw pot shops in unincorporated parts of L.A. Those parts seem few and far between, but they represent about a million peop ... More >>
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December 6, 2010
Pro-Pot Shop Protesters Plan To Urge L.A. County Not To Ban Marijuana Dispensaries
L.A. county just says no to medical weed.Pot-patients rights advocates are up in arms over L.A. County's ban of medical marijuana dispensaries. Ahead of a final vote on the matter Tuesday morning cannabis supporters will be outside the county Board of Supervisors meeting to try to get the bo ... More >>
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December 7, 2010
L.A. County Urges 18-And-Older Policy For Area Raves
Electric Daisy Carnival.The people who run the county of Los Angeles want raves to be a safer. They want them to have an 18-and-older policy. And they want them to warn about the dangers of ecstasy. All these wants, however, don't mean that the parties will have do abide by the county's wish ... More >>
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January 18, 2011
Illegal Immigrants' 'Anchor Babies' Took $53 Million In Welfare Services In L.A. County In 2010
babypunk.netAnchor babies get paid on your dime?Ah, the plight of the so-called "anchor baby," those children of illegal immigrants dropped on U.S. soil like a red-white-and-green flag (because we assume here that European, Asian, African and other immigrants don't do this). They're a thorn ... More >>
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February 9, 2011
Raves: L.A. County Leader Mike Antonovich Wants to Pull Plug on How-to-Take-Ecstasy Education Fliers
Raver down at Electric Daisy Carnival.After LA Weekly brought them to light, an L.A. County leader has asked its Department of Public Heath to stop distributing fliers that essentially teach young people how to trip on ecstasy more safely. The fliers tell ravers to "aim low (dose AND frequen ... More >>
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February 10, 2011
Raves: Pro-Marijuana Group Drug Policy Alliance Supports Coliseum Raves and L.A. County's How-to-Take-Ecstasy Fliers
Caesar SebastianRavers at Electric Daisy Carnival.The Drug Policy Alliance, an influential pro-marijuana group that supported the pot legalization initiative in California last year, is backing the L.A. County Department of Public Health's controversial how-to-take ecstasy fliers that were to ... More >>
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March 24, 2011
Arcadia Highlands' Oak Protesters Face Trial
As DA Cooley prosecutes four activists, a war to save SoCal old growth gets nasty
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April 4, 2011
Dodgers Fans Who Beat Up S.F. Giants Fan Bryan Stow -- Still in Coma -- Get Sketched, Tagged With $10,000 Reward
LAPDOutrage is mounting, both in San Francisco and Los Angeles, over Friday's very unsportsmanlike (to say the least) Opening Day beatdown in the Dodger Stadium parking lot. Assault victim Bryan Stow, a 40-year-old Santa Cruz paramedic with two small children who had travelled south to cheer ... More >>
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April 4, 2011
Giants Kick In $10,000 For Reward Fund In Dodger Stadium Attack; Dodgers Kick In Zero
Have you seen these guys?Just when you thought it couldn't get worse for the Dodgers, this evening the San Francisco Giants kicked in $10,000 for the reward fund in the Opening Day beating. That happens to be $10,000 more than the Dodgers have offered. (Updated below.)Now, maybe they just haven't ... More >>
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April 13, 2011
Brian Stow Beating at Dodger Stadium Blamed on Alcohol: County Leader Mike Antonovich Calls For No Half-Price Beer at Venue
Dodger Stadium.Updated after the jump with the Dodgers saying half-price beer days are canceled. For a long time alcohol and sports fans have been good friends. And for a long time they've combined to wreak havoc at football, baseball and soccer games. Some are blaming this witches' brew f ... More >>
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June 1, 2011
Matt Fong, Former California Treasurer And Longtime Angeleno, Dies at 57
Matt Fong.Updated at the bottom with reaction from L.A. County Supervisor Mike Antonovich. Matt Fong, a longtime Angeleno and onetime U.S. Senate hopeful, has died, according to the Sacramento Bee. Fong's mother is beloved Democrat March Fong Eu, who was elected California's Secretary of St ... More >>
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June 30, 2011
Defending Desert Rats
Matt Fong.Updated at the bottom with reaction from L.A. County Supervisor Mike Antonovich. Matt Fong, a longtime Angeleno and onetime U.S. Senate hopeful, has died, according to the Sacramento Bee. Fong's mother is beloved Democrat March Fong Eu, who was elected California's Secretary of St ... More >>
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August 11, 2011
Anchor Baby Benefits in L.A. Cost Taxpayers $54 Million in June: County Leader Mike Antonovich is Pissed at Price of Illegals
Antonovich.L.A. County Supervisor Mike Antonovich is continuing his campaign against illegal aliens, announcing that undocumented families that have so-called American-citizen anchor babies cost area taxpayers $54 million in welfare benefits in June alone. He says the projected cost of such ... More >>
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September 28, 2011
FAQ on Los Angeles County Gerrymanding: Did the Board of Supervisors' Redistricting Decision Violate the Federal Voting Rights Act?
By Hillel Aron Los Angeles County: Do its citizens still vote by race?After a seemingly endless session that included hundreds of public speakers, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors passed a redistricting plan, 4-1, with Gloria Molina the dissenting vote, yesterday. Why does this ... More >>
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November 29, 2011
Sex Offender Halloween Sweep in L.A. Turns up Trap Door Leading to Basement With Chair-And-Rope Set-up (Really)
NBC / HuluSNL's 'The Creep.'We thought the Halloween limits on ex-cons who had once committed sex offenses were pretty draconian: No decorations, no opening your door for trick-or-treaters, and, for some, a roundup that had them staying at parole centers during trick-or-treat hours. The grou ... More >>
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