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NEWS
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- November 18, 2004 |
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on
some issues of interest to the community policing and neighborhood
activist
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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 ...
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From
the LA Times:
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Probe of Guard Pact Is Ordered
SACRAMENTO - A federal judge Wednesday ordered an investigation
into the state's labor contract with California's correctional officers,
asking whether it gives their union too much control over prison
management.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-prison18nov18,1,2956070.story?coll=la-headlines-california
Firm Billed DWP for Work Tied to Hahn
Records show publicists had long meetings with the mayor's deputies.
He denies impropriety.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-hahn18nov18,1,4045916.story?coll=la-headlines-california
L.A. Business Tax Reforms OKd
The City Council votes to eliminate the gross receipts tax for firms
that make $100,000 or less in a year. Hahn says he'll sign the measures.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-tax18nov18,1,4043590.story?coll=la-headlines-california
Day Laborers Sue Redondo Beach Over Stings
Day laborers carrying protest signs marched on Redondo Beach City
Hall on Wednesday after filing a federal lawsuit seeking to stop
enforcement of an ordinance against soliciting jobs on the streets.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-redondo18nov18,1,4849736.story?coll=la-headlines-california
Longer Trash Truck Trips Raise Concerns
A proposal to dump Los Angeles' trash in landfills outside the city
drew expressions of concern from county officials and residents
Wednesday about the possible environmental effects of longer truck
trips.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-trash18nov18,1,4418502.story?coll=la-headlines-california
News Rack Regulation Advances
The Los Angeles City Council advanced a proposal Wednesday to regulate
the placement and color of news racks throughout the city, setting
the ordinance for final approval next week.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-racks18nov18,1,949681.story?coll=la-headlines-california
City Favors New Policy on Naming Communities
A City Council committee voted this week in favor of a citywide
policy for naming communities and installing the blue street signs
informing motorists that they are crossing into a community's boundaries.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-briefs18.2nov18,1,2113255.story?coll=la-headlines-california
Neighborhood Council's Election Under Fire
Community members in Venice violated their bylaws while planning
for an election for board members last June, according to a report
issued this week by the city's Human Relations Commission.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-briefs18.3nov18,1,2506472.story?coll=la-headlines-california
Donation of food nothing to gobble at
One hundred turkeys arrived on Monday to help kick off Thanksgiving
food drive.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/burbank/news/la-blr-turkey17nov17,1,3995719.story
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From
the Daily News:
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L.A.'s invisible killer
A new medical study that found even minute amounts of ozone in the
air can be deadly prompted calls Wednesday for much stricter controls
on emissions of the invisible gas in smog-ridden Los Angeles.
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200~20954~2541679,00.html
We're a state on the move
SACRAMENTO -- High rents and rising home prices are pushing one
in every four Californians to consider moving elsewhere in the state
or leaving California entirely, says a new statewide survey on places
people call home.
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200%257E20954%257E2541661,00.html
Council OKs cuts in business taxes
L.A. still costlier than neighbors
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200%257E20954%257E2541908,00.html
DWP paid P.R. firm to spin opinion on 'green power' issue
DWP officials paid thousands of dollars in 2002 to Fleishman-Hillard
for damage control months before Los Angeles City Controller Laura
Chick issued an audit accusing the public relations firm's subcontractor
of faulty billings, according to city documents and interviews Wednesday.
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200%257E20954%257E2542177,00.html
$6.7 billion deficit looms
State budget still faces structural imbalance
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200%257E20954%257E2541692,00.html
Subway study is back on track
City Councilman Tom LaBonge's effort to overturn two laws banning
subway construction in Los Angeles County inched forward Wednesday
when an MTA committee agreed to study the issue.
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200%257E20954%257E2541699,00.html
More news rack colors nixed
Newspapers protest cost, threaten free speech suit
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200%257E20954%257E2541874,00.html
Pedestrian bridge to be open during day
SHERMAN OAKS -- After hearing from people Wednesday night on both
sides of a debate concerning a closed pedestrian bridge over the
Los Angeles River, City Councilwoman Wendy Greuel decided to reopen
the bridge during the day, and have it closed at night.
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200%257E20954%257E2542075,00.html
L.A., El Segundo ready for talks
Los Angeles and El Segundo officials announced Wednesday they have
agreed to at least talk about plans to limit the number of passengers
at Los Angeles International Airport.
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200%257E20954%257E2542013,00.html
Trash traffic and pollution worry county
Firm proposes to haul 3,500 tons a day outside city limits
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200%257E20954%257E2541968,00.html
Answer is needed now for more police in L.A.
IT was a scene out of a movie -- in fact it was not unlike a scene
in the Los Angeles Police Department recruitment film that premiered
in front of Chief William Bratton last week: A crazed, desperate
man takes a pregnant woman hostage. The situation seems dire. The
crowd is at a loss, but then a hero -- a SWAT-trained LAPD officer
-- gets into position and takes down the hostage-taker, releasing
the woman unharmed.
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200~24781~2541416,00.html
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From
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From
Mayor Hahn
Mayor Hahn Kicks Off New Program To Reduce Gang Violence For
Boyle Heights Middle School Students
http://www.lacity.org/mayor/myrpress/mayormyrpress27425061_11172004.pdf
From the Department of Homeland Security
ICE Detention And Removal Sets Record For Fiscal Year 2004
Alien Removals Increase by 12,000; Fugitive Alien Apprehensions
Climb 112 Percent
http://www.ice.gov/graphics/news/newsreleases/articles/droFY04.htm
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