“Were like sardines in a can.”
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“Were like sardines in a can.”
Who knew. I always wondered what that stench on the bus was. Now I know.
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Friday, July 29, 2005
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“Were like sardines in a can.”
Who knew. I always wondered what that stench on the bus was. Now I know.
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The frustration evident in Zines comment is unfortunate. With hopes that in the long run more public participation and input may help sort this out for the community.
Mayor Sam, the following small piece I will gutly paste and cut is small, sorry if I annoy anyone by doing this. But, the news headline made me want to puke in disgust to see this type of situation happening in our country. I am a Republican, and to bust the stereotype we might have of having a brutal side, I can tell you this almost had me puking with anger. How can such a thing like this happen to children in the U.S., we are not a third world country, this is not civil behavior by our immigration authorities.
"30 Kids Left Behind After Immigration Raid"
By MELISSA NELSON, Associated Press Writer
2 hours, 56 minutes ago
ARKADELPHIA, Ark. - About 30 children, some as young as 3 months old, were left without their parents after immigration agents raided a poultry plant and took the parents away to face possible deportation.
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While some of the arrested workers were able to call and arrange care for their children, others were not and a local church had to help make arrangements.
The mayor said what happened to the children was a shame.
For the full story go here
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050729/ap_on_re_us/immigration_arrests_children
Here is a theme song,
Huizar is the name,
I play the drop out game,
my deals are sealed and made,
with meruelo there's no shame,
you people just don't mind,
if I'm here to buy a dime,
the kids know who I am,
the man who stole their dreams,
and made their parents scream,
Huizar is the name,
you will not look at me the same,
this song will have to groove,
until election day and I lose.
This song is dedicated to all the kids the were shortchanged from proper education at LAUSD under Jose Huizar's mismanagement and for having them endure the political bullshit of contamidated sites, ripped off land deals, and incompetent administration.
Adios,
Politico X
I am tired of reading the divisiveness of our Latino politicians. All I wish is for everyone to be united and fight for the rights of all, however all I see is disruption and pointing fingers at each other.
We have the KKK in Tennessee making Hispanics the new target, we should not allow this type of ignorant mentality to be fueled. We benefit from pulling together and that will make us greater as city, country, and nation internationally. Put any negativity behind and allow for all of us to communicate effectively and help our cities be one in power and voice.
I wish all the candidates running the best and as a constituent, I am proud of participating in every election. I truly wish all of you would read this because while picking fights that make no sense, our country is facing a RACIST reality in different pockets of it's own soil. We cannot afford to break into sections, only together can we accomplish beautiful and productive things for all.
Sincerely,
The Messenger
Very disturbing to see that at a Town Hall meeting called "The event was titled "Blacks and Hispanics: Allies or Rivals?"
would be allowed to exist which only undermines the message of unity and productivity for benefit of all.
Why would Bernard Parks attend this event or had considered attending in the first place? There should be no rivalry. We are all humans, trying to survive in this world. So stop fighting what is evident and unite. Only a third party would want you to divide and be weak, do not buy into this, just unite and prosper.
The story can be found at this website address
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/state/la-me-race30jul30,1,3411433.story?coll=la-news-state
Mayor Sam,
If you have any connections please forward the previous website address to our Mayor, we need to immediately unite as a society and come together to prosper, the story is disturbing and the more you read you will see how people can be so misinformed about society and culture.
For example, read the following of that article, "...One questioner asked him for budget numbers, insisting they would prove that educating Latinos was more expensive than teaching other students. It's a premise that Alonzo said was wrong." And, "A lot of black boys and girls are dropping out, and it's because their classes are overwhelmed with illegal Hispanics," Peterson said.
"Black children are mad about that; black parents are mad about that..."
For Immediate Release
June 28, 2005 Contact: Keith Ashdown
202.546.8500 x110
TRANSPORTATION BILL APB
(Anonymous Pork Bulletin)
Washington, D.C. - The following is a statement by Erich W. Zimmermann, a Senior Policy Analyst for Taxpayers for Common Sense, on the conspicuous absence of a conference agreement on the transportation bill:
In a rush to get out of town, House lawmakers are still saying they will vote tonight on final passage of a transportation bill. Rumor has it that the legislation has been stuffed to the brim with at least $20 billion in political projects, a new earmarking record.
In fact, the transportation bill has become the ghost of Capitol Hill: Nobody has seen it, but we know that it's scary and has been haunting the halls of Congress for a long time.
Everybody is looking high and low for this bill, making it the "Where's Waldo" of Capitol Hill. We know that every lawmaker squeals at the idea of more road pork, but not letting people read the bill before a vote is outrageous, unfair and anti-democratic. Lawmakers will have to be speed-readers to get through this bill before it is time to vote. Members will be lucky if they have even a few hours review the final conference report, which rings in at a beefy $286.5 billion. It is likely that the public won't see the bill at all before Congress actually votes.
Maybe Congress has grown a little sheepish by its fiscally irresponsible ways, and hiding the bill from public scrutiny makes the embarrassment of riches a little less embarrassing. More likely, however, it is merely a sign that Congress needs to make sure every last dollar is assigned to member projects before the bill is released. Either way, it's a poor way to legislate and undermines the democratic process. We'd like Congress to hold off on voting and take a few hours to read the bill while they are on their summer vacation.
State Route 710 Freeway Extension
Greater Los Angeles, California
Cost to Federal Taxpayers: $1.12 billion
The State Route 710 (SR 710) extension was first discussed in 1949 as one in a series of freeways serving Los Angeles County, California. As proposed, SR 710 would connect the existing I-710, which currently ends just outside of Los Angeles, with I-210 in Pasadena. The project's 1994 cost estimate, the most recent available, was $1.4 billion for this 4.5-mile road, or $311 million per mile. This number is certainly much higher today, but even using this outdated estimate, SR 710 would cost more per mile than most urban freeways and more than the Los Angeles subway system.
Taxpayer Concerns
Building the proposed SR 710 would cost $1.4 billion or more. The cities of El Sereno, South Pasadena, and Pasadena would lose property tax revenue because Caltrans would destroy 1,000 homes and businesses, reducing annual revenue for the area's school districts by $1.6 million. California currently owns only half of the properties it would need to build the highway, and would have to spend $225 million to purchase additional properties. If the project is cancelled, the state could sell the 500 properties it has acquired and reap $200 million or more and apply these funds to the region's more pressing transportation needs.
Recent transit improvements have made the highway unnecessary. In 2003, Caltrans opened an $860 million light rail line that serves the corridor's commuter needs, and SR 710 would run parallel to the $2.2 billion Alameda Corridor, which serves freight movement from the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.
A non-highway alternative supported by national, state, and local groups would cost at least $1.2 billion less than SR 710 (at a cost of $135 million) and could be implemented within five years. This alternative integrates signal coordination, parking management, intersection upgrades, roadway efficiency improvements, improvements to existing highways, and better public transit coordination.
http://www.taxpayer.net/road2ruin/roads/rt710ca.htm
Congress Set to Send Highway Bill to Bush
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/07/29/national/w073016D55.DTL
The watchdog group Taxpayers for Common Sense, which keeps track of such projects in the bill, which runs more than 1,000 pages, said it has found 6,361 highway, bus and rail projects worth about $23 billion.
These projects range from a $200 million bridge near Anchorage renamed "Don Young's Way" after House Transportation Committee Chairman Don Young, R-Alaska, to $45,000 for improved circuitry at a rail crossing in Knoxville, Tenn.
Watchdog groups
Taxpayers for Common Sense, which lists 6,361 of these projects valued at $23 billion, and other watchdog groups say such projects are wasteful, handed out as political rewards.
Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, cited dozens of what he suggested were questionable projects in a highway bill, including $3 million to fund production of a documentary about infrastructure advancements in Alaska.
The bill, he said, is "terrifying in its fiscal consequences and disappointing for the lack of fiscal discipline." Joining McCain in voting against the bill were Sens. John Cornyn, R-Texas, Judd Gregg, R-New Hampshire, and Jon Kyl, R-Arizona.
Airport panel pick's conflict of interest questioned
By Rick Orlov, Staff Writer
With hearings scheduled soon on Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's nominees to the Airport Commission, a City Council member is questioning whether one appointee might have a conflict of interest.
Valeria Velasco is president of the Alliance for a Regional Solution to Airport Congestion, which has filed suit challenging the $11 billion modernization plan for Los Angeles International Airport.
Councilman Tony Cardenas has asked the City Attorney's Office for a legal opinion on any potential conflict of interest. He also wants an opinion on whether Velasco's position on the commission could result in the entire panel being recused from decisions regarding the master plan or settlement of the lawsuit.
Velasco, who is also a practicing attorney, said she would step down from her ARSAC position, if requested, and would recuse herself from any decisions regarding the lawsuit.
Aides to Villaraigosa said he welcomes the review and is confident that Velasco will take steps to avoid any conflicts of interest.
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Rick Orlov, (213) 978-0390 rick.orlov@dailynews.com
Attn Messenger/Anna
Life is not a fairytale, realize that you live in the real world with real issues. I disagree with you. We need to have dialogue, but also honest about our differences and biased attitudes.
Read this story
The Rift
Evidence of a divide between blacks and Hispanics mounting
By Susy Buchanan
One after another, the reports have rolled in. From Florida to California, Nevada to New Jersey, even as far away as the state of Washington, the news is getting harder to ignore: There's trouble brewing between blacks and browns.
At Hug High School in Reno, Nev., an emergency task force began work last October after a series of fights between black and Hispanic students that interim Schools Superintendent Paul Dugan said reflected "definite racial tensions." In Monroe, Wash., similar tensions shot up after a Mexican flag was torn down and thrown into a bathroom and several off-campus fights broke out. In Chicago, seven students were arrested after an interracial brawl in January left teachers and security guards injured and parents complaining of mounting racial strife.
But it was in schools in California, where so many of the nation's trends first take shape, that this disturbing conflict was most obvious.
http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=548
LA Times
Anger Boils at Illegal Immigrants
The undocumented steal jobs from citizens and crowd schools, say audience members at an L.A. event. Calls for tolerance draw jeers.
Vilified too was Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa — not for his heritage, speakers said, but because of his membership in MEChA, a Chicano rights organization, when he was a student at UCLA.
man, do you guys ever get laid?
also, what the hell is going on with all the massage parlors in zine's district right by houses and flower stores? Did he get paid off again?
I suggest Zine get back on his motorcycle and start patrolling his district because crime seems to be increasing. "Were like sardines in a can": typical NIMBY statement.
Yeah, I second that on the massage parlors, I really love it when I am buying a phone and in the same shopping center is a whorehouse. Yet again, zine monitoring his district.
zine is a toad.
ribbet
Campaign gifts keep giving back
By Thomas D. Elias, Guest columnist
"Imagine what things might be like if the strict conflict-of-interest laws passed by initiative in a few cities just over three years ago were operating on the state level...The laws also prohibit officials like city councilmen and planning commissioners from going to work for companies whose contracts they've approved for at least five years after voting on those pacts...And no state legislators or commissioners acting on anything affecting them could accept a job or a lobbying contract with any of those companies for years after leaving office...It's all part of a de facto revolving-door arrangement between government and some private businesses. It works for Democrats, too. The chief transition aide for new Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, for instance, served as a deputy mayor under former Mayor Richard Riordan. In between, while James Hahn was mayor for four years, she worked for developer and big political donor Eli Broad, whose initial is the B in the KB Homes firm...Ideally, none of this should be possible. It leads to an old-boy, old-girl network that sees to it certain big commercial and labor interests always get their way."
DWP's green scheme
Customers who make power will pay more
By Lisa M. Sodders, Staff Writer
Despite mandates to boost renewable power sources, the Los Angeles DWP gives the Los Angeles Unified School District a discounted rate to delay its alternative-energy program and plans to charge other large customers more for generating their own electricity, the Daily News has learned.
Beginning in January, the Department of Water and Power will charge a new fee to the Los Angeles Community College District and nearly a dozen other unidentified customers that generate a portion of their own electricity, officials said.
"The fact of the matter is, they do not want you to self-generate," said Tony Fairclough, an engineering management consultant for the college district. "They want to appear to be 'green,' but they want those dollars."
East Side Story
Rail line spurring boom in development activity
By HOWARD FINE
Los Angeles Business Journal Staff
Investing: The success of transit projects elsewhere has given developers confidence to proceed.
Investors and developers are eyeing sites and quietly buying up properties around the $900 million Eastside rail line now under construction through Boyle Heights and East Los Angeles.
Developer interest in the rail line is coinciding with a surge of publicly sponsored projects in the area and could lead to a rebirth that’s similar to what happened in Hollywood after the subway was completed there.
“For years, it was very hard to get developers interested in this area. But now, we’re running into more and more developers, buying property and looking at other properties to develop, and much of this interest is centering on the rail line,” said Tony Salazar, principal in the development firm McCormack Baron Salazar LLP.
The firm is working with the city of L.A.’s housing authority and Related Cos. to develop the $100 million Aliso Village housing project in Boyle Heights, just north of the rail line. McCormack Baron Salazar is also eyeing other sites along the route.
I’m not selling’
One landowner, Anita Castellanos, says she’s received dozens of offers for her 27,000 square feet of retail shops over the last two or three years.
“The offers are coming in from national investment firms, from Orange County, even from doctors at White Memorial (Hospital) just up the street,” she said. “I’m not selling, though. I grew up a few blocks from here and I want to remain here. I just opened up a music school that offers free lessons to children in the community and I want that to continue.”
Castellanos said one of her neighboring property owners “just sold their property for way above what most of us thought was market value – all because of the rail line.”
Near the next planned station at Soto Street, the MTA owns 3.6 acres that local officials have for years been trying to convert into mixed-use development. Cardoso said this site is likely to be next on the MTA’s list for solicitation of proposals.
The largest publicly-owned undeveloped site along the Eastside Extension is in Little Tokyo, at the northeast corner of Alameda and First streets. Once called the Mangrove Estates, this 10-acre, city-owned parcel has seen several development proposals come and go, including one in the late 1980s for a 600-room hotel and 1,200 condo units. The plan was derailed when former councilman Art Snyder, then working as a lobbyist, pleaded guilty to laundering political contributions on behalf of the site’s developer.
At the other end of the Eastside Extension, in unincorporated East Los Angeles, there is little development activity, in part because much of the land is already spoken for. Several major cemeteries line the route, as well as the East Los Angeles Civic Center complex. Construction of the rail line isn’t slated to begin in earnest until late 2006.
But that hasn’t stopped developers and investors from eyeing other East L.A. sites.
Agoura Hills-based Amcal Multi-Housing Inc. is in negotiations to buy land near Third Street on the eastern part of the line. Amcal president Percy Vaz said the company is looking to build about 100 units of housing, with “a little bit of retail.”
Amcal is just finishing up construction of a $107 million mixed-use project at the Avenue 26 Gold Line station in Montecito Heights. That project has 540 residential units, including for-sale condos and affordable housing for families and seniors; it also includes 7,000 square feet of retail.
If I wanted to read Daily News articles I would go the website or pick up the paper. How about just posting comments? Thanks
Good for Bob BAD FOR SLEAZY HUIZY
Mayoral control key to repairing LAUSD
By Robert M. Hertzberg, Guest columnist
I cannot think of a public issue more compelling for our generation than the need to repair the public school system in Los Angeles.
The evidence of failure is everywhere. The statistics damn the system on every aspect of its operation, but none provides a more telling measure of the disastrous future the LAUSD is creating than the fact that 53 percent of its ninth-grade students do not graduate from high school.
The failure of the LAUSD affects all of us equally, from the San Fernando Valley to Long Beach and South Gate. The time to act is now.
LAUSD is simply too large. Their budget is bigger than the budgets of most cities in this nation, and they have absolutely no idea how to handle it.
Did anyone see the last board meeting -- two board members walked out.
Anyway, our kids are the ones who lose.
What I don't understand is how LAUSD was covering up all of this mess for the past 20 years without causing alarm. Was money spent more on cover up then educating kids?
Zine is a fucking idiot with that stupid "Z" pin he wears.
How self absorbed do you have to be to put a Z in a superman logo and expect people to take you seriously?
Does anyone really believe that MAV is going to accomplish what his campaign rhetoric said? Do you really believe that the LAX Plan will be dumped? Do you really believe the Port will be a better neighbor and clean up its pollution? Do you really believe that Sunshine Canyon dump will be closed? In your lifetime? Do you really believe that LA is going to become the greenest, most sustainable major city in the US?
Come on - what are you smoking?
Doubt it highly that AV will accomplish these items. His plans will only creat Havoc!
"The Villaraigosa campaign was truly a 21st-century campaign, spanning languages, ages, and geographies," says campaign strategist Parke Skelton of SG&A Campaigns, the general consultant for the Villaraigosa campaign. "The Internet played an important part in our efforts to get Antonio's message into the community, and also raised a lot of money. No modern campaign should be without it."
Blackrock Associates is an online marketing consulting firm focused on serving progressive political causes and non-profit organizations
SO NO CONSERVATIVE CAUSES? ARE WE BEING PREJUDICE AGAINST A CERTAIN GROUP, CAN WE SUE THIS COMPANY FOR DISCRIMINATION? BLACKROCK FOR DEMOCRATS/SOCIALISTS, IGUESS NOT FOR ANYONE ELSE...
Villaraigosa's chief deputy mayor, Robin Kramer, has worked with Villaraigosa for years on various issues and served as the staff director of his transition team. She also has a long tenure in city government, having served as chief deputy to former Mayor Richard Riordan as well as with former City Councilmen Richard Alatorre and Bob Ronka, as well as serving as a key figure in billionaire Eli Broad's philanthropic foundation.
yup, yup, yup, Villaraigosa also worked for Eli Broad during his hiatus between political offices and held a civilian job, yes with Broad.
But Joel Kotkin, an Irvine Fellow at the New America Institute who has been critical of the new mayor, said it's too early to predict the ultimate success of Villaraigosa because delicate choices still loom in the near future.
"He hasn't had to deal with the real issues yet," Kotkin said. "He is going to have to make choices on all these things he's been talking about. Will the money be there for rail or will he need it to keep the buses running? Will he have the money to hire more cops or will he need to use it to shore up the pension funds? Will he be able to keep the City Council with him or will he face competition from them?"
Northeast community are pissed at Antonio for making LAPD's National Night Out a political affair for him and Jose Huizar. The event is for police officers and the community. They are using it for Jose's political run. Northeast is so pissed that they decided to have 3 other events and snub the event in Highland Park he will be at. Boyle Heights also decided to have their own event. Both areas are sending the message that it is not a political event. He's so arrogant he cares more about himself then the community and officers.
Where are these other events being held at?
I want to go to the Night Out to support LAPD, but I do not want to attend the Political one, I'm sick of that Huizar guy. Ya vato, calmate y deja la gente descansar un poco.
Only at events that Antonio attends does the community need to RSVP. How controlling is that?
Westfield Eagle Rock -Aug. 6th
2700 Colorado Blvd.
Put your Day-of-Service efforts into the Eagle Rockdale Community
For questions and RSVP, please contact (323) 254-5295
Please RSVP by August 4.
The one in Boyle Heights isn't political. Antonio wasn't invited. There are a couple in Northeast at Cypress Park, in Atwater. Call Northeast LAPD and they will tell you.
Doesn't matter that Antonio wasn't invited he'll show up anyway, he's that arrogant. OR he'll use strong arm tactics to be there with Jose. The community is already upset with him for lying to them and then he has the nerve to invade their event. You would think he would be smart enough to know the reason they're having it is to send a message that they didn't want politics involved.
av is strongarming us to bring weeazy along and sell us out again. he is sold to the special interest of the rich white folks in the mt. washington area , the mt washington homeowners alliance and such. he is supporting an interim controll ordinance that will suppress new housing and jobs for our community . all of this to please the rich folks up in the the hills. Remember chavez ravine wss sold the the O malley family for peanuts and hundred of poor hispanics were forced out. well if you own vacant land in the northeast be aware of what the sleazy politicos are trying to destroy your rights to build and profit from the fruits of your labor. Many of these properties have been owned for generations by minorities because it was the only place they could buy.And now thanks to Ed Reyes and Av our property values will suffer and drop if we cant build.
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