edited by: Adam Haverstock,
California Editor
Neighborhood Watch reports that the LAPD Holiday Sleigh is coming to town! On December 16 and 17, Santa and his helpers (our LAPD Senior Lead Officers) will be visiting Westchester and Playa del Rey.
Please come out to any of the stops and bring your little ones to [...]
Reports out of the Capitol have John Perez (D- LA) holding enough votes to succeed Karen Bass as Assembly Speaker. If successful, Perez would be the first openly gay speaker in state history. He also LA Mayor Antonio Villariagosa's cousin.
Kevin De Leon, from a neighboring district in LA, is also [...]
…there goes the neighborhood.
All kidding aside, the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi will be addressing the Orange County Democrats at their Annual Harry Truman award dinner this Friday:
The Democratic Party of Orange County proudly presents
THE 15TH ANNUAL HARRY TRUMAN AWARDS & DINNER
The Airport Hilton Hotel
Crystal Ballroom • 18800 [...]
IBEW Independent Expenditure: $650K and growing
The City Planning Department of Los Angeles is currently mulling over the idea of allowing Accessory Dwelling Units (i.e. ADU’s, aka granny flats) to be built in single family residential neighborhoods zoned as R-1’s. ADU’s are living spaces usually built behind the home that homeowners are allowed to rent out.
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The problem is an increasing number of bar patrons getting in their cars intoxicated and driving [...]
Three flu viruses may have mutated into one seriously nasty beastie with over 1 million infected, mostly in Ukraine. It appears to be spreading. Poland wants the EU to take action and the EU president agrees. Neighboring countries are now doing health checks on everyone attempting to cross from [...]
So reads a t-shirt often worn by Adam Savage, one of the two original starts of the Discovery Channel's series Mythbusters, which I have slavishly watched since the very first episode (I think that was the episode where they busted the myth of the rocket-propelled car launching [...]
In LA gets ugly:
As Los Angeles Unified contemplates turning more schools into charters, parents in a heavily immigrant neighborhood received an anonymous flier written in Spanish: “DO NOT SIGN ANY PETITIONS FOR A CHARTER SCHOOL BECAUSE YOU COULD BE DEPORTED.”
More here.
Community groups and Los Angeles Unified officials on Tuesday condemned an anonymous flyer handed to Latino parents that threatened them with deportation if they supported plans to convert their neighborhood school to a charter. United Teachers Los Angeles denies responsibility,...
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