News item - LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Los Angeles residents were urged on Wednesday to take shorter showers, reduce lawn sprinklers and stop throwing trash in toilets in a bid to cut water usage by 10 percent in the driest year on record. With downtown Los Angeles seeing a record low of 4 inches of [...]
The Sunland and Tujunga communities made it clear to a succession of city panels that they do not want Home Depot, and, on the technical issue of a planning %26lsquo;project,%26rsquo; finally persuaded the City Council to send the project back for environmental review.
While this was a stunning rebuke to a powerful applicant, and called [...]
In an Op-Ed piece Monday on LATimes.com, LADWP Board President H. David Nahai said that among the lessons learned from the Labor Day weekend heat wave was that power rates need to be raised. In case you missed it, here are excerpts from President Nahai%26rsquo;s comments.
%26ldquo;In the week leading up to Labor Day, a searing [...]
As a result of the Rate Actions proposed by DWP on June 5, the NC/DWP Oversight Committee has reviewed numerous documents provided by DWP,
including over 500 pages of budget related material, the DWP financial
statements and related footnotes for both Water and Power, and the
March 2006 Revenue Requirements Study prepared by the
Barrington-Wellesley Group.
Unfortunately, we [...]
By Larry Gross
Lincoln Place Tenants scored another major victory today when the California State Supreme Court rejected a petition filed by AIMCO (Apartment Investment and Management Company), owner of Lincoln Place Apartments seeking to reverse a lower court decision in support of tenant claims that their evictions were illegal.
AIMCO was asking the Supreme Court [...]
By Sara Epstein from Alarcon media release
This past Sunday and Monday a privileged communication between the City Attorney and the Chair of the Budget and Finance Committee was circulated beyond the intended recipient.
The memo was regarding the Las Lomas development and Alarc%26oacute;n%26rsquo;s motion to create a supplemental fee agreement for the processing of the permits [...]
By Ken Draper
Never place an order until you have asked how much it%26rsquo;s going to cost.
Over the past year of NC Review Commission hearings and workshops, neighborhood councils overwhelmingly agreed that it would be a good idea for LA%26rsquo;s City Clerk to relieve them of the much-loathed burden of running their own elections. But, [...]
By Ken Draper
Another batch of recommendations from the 912 Commission%26rsquo;s Final Report found their way out of the Education and Neighborhoods Committee Thursday headed for a variety of destinations. These 34 approvals bring the total number of Commission recommendations acted upon to 49. There are 73 in the Review Commission%26rsquo;s Final Report.
The recommendations remaining [...]
By Greg Nelson
At the last Congress of Neighborhoods, DONE%26rsquo;s acting general manager asked the attendees whether or not they favored having the City Clerk run the neighborhood councils%26rsquo; elections. A lady shouted out, %26ldquo;How much will it cost?%26rdquo;
It was a good question, but there was no answer.
Since the idea was first floated, just before [...]
Staff writers %26amp; Mayor%26rsquo;s media release
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has identified City departments running the largest deficits and directed them to rein in hiring costs.
%26ldquo;All City leaders must work together %26hellip; to mitigate this projected deficit by year-end,%26rdquo; Villaraigosa said in letters to all City departments.
%26ldquo;As part of these efforts, I immediately directed the CAO and [...]
