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NEWS
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- July 29, 2004 |
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on
some issues of interest to the community policing and neighborhood
activist
EDITOR'S NOTE: The following group of articles from local
newspapers and other sources constitutes but a small percentage
of the information available to the community policing and neighborhood
activist public. It is by no means meant to cover every possible
issue of interest, nor is it meant to convey any particular
point of view ...
We present this simply as a convenience to our readership ...
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From
the LA Times:
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Lower House Passes State Budget
The package wins overwhelming approval of both parties, despite
warnings that problems are only put off. Senate action is still
required.
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story>
King/Drew Ignored Surgical Safety Checks
County health director says staff neglected in hundreds of cases
to count instruments after operations. Clamp was found inside a
patient.
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story>
Hahn, Villaraigosa Speak Briefly at Convention
BOSTON — Los Angeles Mayor James K. Hahn got just three minutes
to speak Wednesday at the Democratic National Convention, a midday
performance watched by a handful of viewers back home on C-SPAN
— if he was lucky.
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story>
Gates Would Cut Off Public Access
Bicyclists, runners and others say a Brentwood neighborhood's plan
would deny them entry to mountain parkland. Residents want security.
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story>
Audit Faults Animal Services
Saying that the city's Animal Services Department is "stuck in a
time warp," City Controller Laura Chick charged Wednesday that the
department could be losing nearly $11 million a year by not enforcing
penalties against people who fail to license their animals.
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story>
Firm Pulls Plug on DWP
The company, which runs a purchasing system, says it has not been
paid. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-dwp29jul29,1,2956174,print.story?coll=la-headlines-california
Students Restoring Damaged Campus A tree-planting marks the start
of a North Hills school's recovery from vandalism.
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story>
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From
the Daily News:
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Big-rig safety plan coming from CHP
Big-rig crashes cause some of the worst freeway tie-ups -- including
a seven-hour jam Wednesday morning -- prompting the CHP to launch
a $900,000 program to ticket truckers and other motorists whose
bad habits can cause crashes.
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Chick says dogs have treed Hahn
Despite years of controversy and turmoil, Mayor James Hahn has failed
to improve the Los Angeles Animal Services Department's record of
getting dogs licensed and cracking down on scofflaws, Controller
Laura Chick charged Wednesday.
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Assembly passes budget
SACRAMENTO -- Twenty-eight days into the new fiscal year, the state
Assembly passed a $105 billion budget Wednesday night that cuts
education and local government services and raises college fees
but resists any tax increases.
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Tokofsky says school cops' costs hidden
School board member David Tokofsky on Wednesday denounced a top
Los Angeles Unified administrator he accused of having hidden a
$2 million increase in funding for school police during a budget
process in which $500 million in spending was being cut.
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story>
Firm shuts down DWP bidding
Los Angeles Department of Water and Power officials said Wednesday
they have not yet decided whether to end a business relationship
with an Inglewood company that shut down the utility's computerized
bidding system last week in a billing dispute.
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story>
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