Patrick Range McDonald

Molly Munger's Prop. 38 Is Spoiling Jerry Brown's Prop. 30. She's Not Sorry.

Patrick Range McDonaldOctober 25, 2012

Molly Munger, whose Proposition 38 tax increase is up against Gov. Jerry Brown's Proposition 30 tax increase on the Nov. 6 ballot, was sitting in her beautiful Pasadena home one fall day last year when her private pollster emailed her some fresh survey results. To her great surprise, they showed......

Beverly Hills City Council Refuses to Join Rainbow Coalition to Defeat Measure J

Patrick Range McDonaldOctober 24, 2012

Last night, four members of the Beverly Hills City Council blew a golden public relations opportunity -- and refused to approve a strong anti-Measure J resolution. The initiative seeks to extend a recent half-cent L.A. County sales tax hike for another 30 years to 2069. Instead, the Beverly Hills Courier......

Antonio '11 Percent' Villaraigosa Needs Time to 'Reflect' About Running For President in 2016?

Patrick Range McDonaldOctober 23, 2012

Alice Walton (a.k.a. The City Maven) reminded us that Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa continues living on his own planet these days, discussing with a radio host in Iowa how he may or may not run for U.S. president in 2016. With only nine months or so until he leaves......

CNN's Anderson Cooper Slams Betsy Butler's Abstention on Sex-Pervert Bill (VIDEO)

Patrick Range McDonaldOctober 18, 2012

CNN video after the jump... Will California State Assemblywoman Betsy Butler's refusal to vote on a sex-pervert bill cause her political downfall? Someone sure hopes so. Butler's in a tight race against fellow Democrat and Santa Monica Mayor Richard Bloom in the swanky California Assembly District 50, one of the......

L.A. Public Libraries Restore Hours After Voters Rose Against Villaraigosa Budget Cuts

Patrick Range McDonaldOctober 15, 2012

While Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and the L.A. City Council continue to deal with lingering budget deficits, there's one bright spot amid the darkness -- L.A. public libraries are now open longer. Starting today, the added hours at the city's 73 libraries is the second phase of returning the public library......

CIM Group Erects 'More Blight' at Midtown Crossing, Long-suffering Neighbors Furious

Patrick Range McDonaldOctober 12, 2012

Mid-City resident Robert Portillo and his neighbors can't catch a break, and developer CIM Group seems to only want more. The newest clash between these two sides started last Friday, when Portillo and his neighbors saw construction workers at the CIM-owned Midtown Crossing shopping center suddenly erecting three large frames......

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Richard Riordan Starts Signature-Gathering Campaign to Slash L.A. City Employee Pensions, Warning 100 percent of L.A.'s Cash Will Soon Be Consumed By Pensions, Fire and Police

Patrick Range McDonaldOctober 11, 2012

Long sounding the alarm for city employee pension reform, former L.A. Mayor Richard Riordan is no longer waiting for the City Council and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to come up with the big fix. On Friday morning, Riordan will file papers with the City Clerk so he can start a signature-gathering......

California Assembly District 50 Race: Santa Monica Coalition for a Livable City Disses Local Son Richard Bloom

Patrick Range McDonaldOctober 9, 2012

California State Assemblywoman Betsy Butler and Santa Monica Mayor Richard Bloom are battling it out in the competitive Assembly District 50 race, and with such a close election expected, anything can help -- or hurt. Butler and Bloom would have probably liked the endorsements of their like-minded opponents from the......

Yes, Won't Back Down Takes a Controversial Stance on Teachers Unions. But That's Not a Bad Thing

Patrick Range McDonaldOctober 4, 2012

See also: *California's Parent Trigger *Parent Trigger's Second Try Teachers' unions don't want you to see Won't Back Down, an underdog film that opened Sept. 28, starring Maggie Gyllenhaal as a working-class mother in Pittsburgh who will do anything to give her young daughter a great education -- even if......

UCLA Study Finds Bisexual Women and Gay Men Suffer Higher Rates of Domestic Violence

Patrick Range McDonaldOctober 4, 2012

Bisexual women and gay men face higher rates of domestic violence, the Williams Institute, a UCLA gay think thank, has reported. "Binge drinking and a history of psychological distress predicted intimate partner violence," a UCLA press statement reads, "but these factors did not explain disparities between bisexual and heterosexual women......

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Patrick Range McDonald

Molly Munger's Prop. 38 Is Spoiling Jerry Brown's Prop. 30. She's Not Sorry.

Beverly Hills City Council Refuses to Join Rainbow Coalition to Defeat Measure J

Antonio '11 Percent' Villaraigosa Needs Time to 'Reflect' About Running For President in 2016?

CNN's Anderson Cooper Slams Betsy Butler's Abstention on Sex-Pervert Bill (VIDEO)

L.A. Public Libraries Restore Hours After Voters Rose Against Villaraigosa Budget Cuts

CIM Group Erects 'More Blight' at Midtown Crossing, Long-suffering Neighbors Furious

Richard Riordan Starts Signature-Gathering Campaign to Slash L.A. City Employee Pensions, Warning 100 percent of L.A.'s Cash Will Soon Be Consumed By Pensions, Fire and Police

California Assembly District 50 Race: Santa Monica Coalition for a Livable City Disses Local Son Richard Bloom

Yes, Won't Back Down Takes a Controversial Stance on Teachers Unions. But That's Not a Bad Thing

UCLA Study Finds Bisexual Women and Gay Men Suffer Higher Rates of Domestic Violence

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