Quick News Round-UP
Mayor Set to Fill Planning Positions
Los Angeles Times Fri, 02 Sep 2005 0:13 AM PDT
With economic development a top priority, Villaraigosa has a lineup of business and labor leaders ready for two key land-use panels.
Power Agency Board Member Has Green Agenda
Los Angeles Times Fri, 02 Sep 2005 0:13 AM PDT
In a career spanning more than three decades, Mary Nichols has held nearly every major conservation post in California — including serving as chairwoman of the California Air Resources Board and as the cabinet-level resources secretary under former Gov. Gray Davis.
School Safe Zone Program Unveiled
Los Angeles Times Fri, 02 Sep 2005 0:12 AM PDT
Officials and students hope that expanded criminal penalties will send the message that violence won't be tolerated on campuses. Los Angeles city and school officials launched a campaign Thursday to reduce violence around 10 campuses by expanding the penalties for crimes committed near the schools.
Friday, September 02, 2005
Daily Breeze Fri, 02 Sep 2005 1:01 AM PDT
Warnings planned at 10 LAUSD campuses allow for stiffer punishments for people who commit crimes near the sites.
Los Angeles Times Fri, 02 Sep 2005 0:13 AM PDT
With economic development a top priority, Villaraigosa has a lineup of business and labor leaders ready for two key land-use panels.
| Mayor's Wife Chosen for Early Childhood Panel Los Angeles Times Fri, 02 Sep 2005 0:19 AM PDT Corina Villaraigosa, the wife of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, has been nominated to sit on the First 5 L.A. commission, which oversees $209 million in annual funding for early childhood development, health and education programs in the county. |
| Friday, September 02, 2005 Daily Breeze Fri, 02 Sep 2005 1:01 AM PDT Villaraigosa is greeted with cheers at a dockworkers' rally to urge ILWU members to vote in the election. |
Power Agency Board Member Has Green Agenda
Los Angeles Times Fri, 02 Sep 2005 0:13 AM PDT
In a career spanning more than three decades, Mary Nichols has held nearly every major conservation post in California — including serving as chairwoman of the California Air Resources Board and as the cabinet-level resources secretary under former Gov. Gray Davis.
School Safe Zone Program Unveiled
Los Angeles Times Fri, 02 Sep 2005 0:12 AM PDT
Officials and students hope that expanded criminal penalties will send the message that violence won't be tolerated on campuses. Los Angeles city and school officials launched a campaign Thursday to reduce violence around 10 campuses by expanding the penalties for crimes committed near the schools.
Friday, September 02, 2005
Daily Breeze Fri, 02 Sep 2005 1:01 AM PDT
Warnings planned at 10 LAUSD campuses allow for stiffer punishments for people who commit crimes near the sites.
Posted by Anonymous @ 9/02/2005 08:02:00 AM
42 Comments:
Why is his wife serving on this commission, is she a volunteer or paid staff? If paid, how much would she make? There are far more better and qualified people than Corina to nominate for commission spot at ECP.
Question for Mayor Sam or any LAUSD official who reads here at this site:
Did a couple of LAUSD high schools get taken over by the state? I heard Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson H.S. were taken over and recently remodeling those campuses? Is there any truth to this?
Playing it safe now, on the blog. Just news briefs, no commentary.
"On advise of counsel" - no doubt.
TOO LAAAAATE!
are you REALLY asking LAUSD officials a quesiton on a blog? what an idiiot
Not an idiot, total opposite, LAUSD and YOU read this blog. Any one can answer or give an opinion. Your the idiot for putting a cap on your mind.
Why bash Corina? She's been a teacher for many years. LA's Best is a education program, why not enlist the First Lady of LA to bring needed attention to a worthy program.. I think it was a smart move by that commission to enlist her support. She proabably has a little more contact with the Mayor than most!
So you are saying it is who you know, not what is best for the kids...wow, what a rude awakening! And I thought corina was picked for her achievements instead I find out she's the wife of the short mayor.
I hope she wasn't a teacher from the dysfunctional LAUSD family...it would be a shame to put a failure in such a new program.
Oh wait, I forgot, we are sort of used to putting failures underachievers up for office. Our mayor recieved a degree from UCLA with a mere 1.8 GPA...I didn't even know this was possible. Here I am telling kids to get a 2.0 or higher, what for, you can have a disgusting GPA and still manipulate the land contractors and unions to help you get in office.
Gloria Molina doesn't have a degree, she took a couple of East Los Angeles College courses, that's it!
I heard she rubbed on the right legs to get where she is at...
On any committee, each member brings different things to the table. Mrs. Villaraigosa brings the ability to bring media attention, visability, and direct access to the Mayor. I'm sure theres a enough PHD's and political appointees on any committee to handle the nuts and bolts. First 5 and LA's Best aren't new..... or haven't you been involved or donated to issues addressing children's needs?
12:00 PM
Gloria used to be fine. She even used those outdated pictures for her last campaign race - in 1991 against Art Torres. Imagine, being one of the most "powerful" Latinas in the country and not having a contested race in nearly 15 years!
On a side note, Ron Martinez, Gloria's husband, is also a paid "consultant" to L.A. Best. His company was rated third out of three but he got the job anyway because Mike Hernandez rushed it through. The owner of the company that rated first, a Cal State Northridge professor and Ph.D. was so frustrated she folded her company and vowed never to bid for another city contract. These are the type of Latinos Tony is letting in to play - by the way, Ron was Tony's best man at his sham wedding.
Rick orlov or steve hyman, are you reading the previous post. Why don't you guys write about this unethical stuff that happens in our gov.
BAD move Antonio! The "nicer" people in the city have spared the Mrs. from a lot of the criticism (and ridicule, over your screwups), in part because she was "just the wife" of a public figure.
Now you're hanging her out to dry there as a REAL public official in her own right. You're letting the genie out of the bottle, opening Pandora's box and all that stuff.
Kid gloves will come off, and there won't be anyway for your supporters to scream back that detractors are "attacking the family."
Re-think that before all hell breaks loose, Mr. Mayor.
(5 cliches, by my count)
She's a tough lady. She can handle it.
You better be on your city lunch hour.....
12:19
While your at it, look into Ron Martinez dealings with Barrio Planners and their subsidiaries. Frank Villalobos, the president of Barrio Planners has long been a Molina supporter and she has rewarded him with millions in contracts with the MTA. Frank has been paying Ron for years.
Barrio Planners also had a contract with Community Health Foundation - the largest Latino primary care provider in the nation. They went under in 2002. Not a whisper when this $40 million a year publicly funded health provider went under. Ron Martinez was also a paid consultant to this agency and brokered the deal with Barrio Planners to build new clinics. Molina's staff had family working here. And Rudy Diaz, Community Health Foundation's Exectuive Director was Villaraigosa's brother in-law.
Where is the scrutiny?
Deborah Villar who is Antonio Villaraigosa's sister was also Director of Community Health Foundations, now she is at
Site Director Northeast:
Deborah Villar
Clinica Msr. Oscar A. Romero Community Health Center
2032 Marengo Street
Los Angeles, CA 90033
Phone: (323) 987-1030
Fax: (323) 221-4528
Clinica Romero Northeast, besides offering primary health and dental care, also provides substance abuse counseling and Prop. 36 services.
Any other Antonio Villaraigosa family members in KEY positions to soak up the poor mans dollars or just plain TAX dollars and claim fraudulent expenses and companies going bell up?
Well Tony did appoint Raul Estradas to a commission. He's antoher poverty pimp who heads a drug rehab clinic called El Centro. Now that Deborah Villar is divorced from Rudy Diaz, Raul is her boyfriend. Tony appointed him to a commission but he suddenly pulled his nomination. I guess that's the ticket, get into Deborah's pants and you'll get a fat government funded paycheck.
WHERE ARE YOU DAVID ZHANISER?
ARE YOU READING THIS?
ALL YOU HAVE TO DO JOURNO'S IS CONTACT RUDY DIAZ, HE WILL SING.
12:25 p.m.
I work for a living -- couldn't be unproductive enough to be a City employee and still sleep at night.
The "Mrs." may be tough enough (she would have to be, considering Tony's track record of personal embarrassments), but Antonio's groupies will go into total meltdown and act as if the world comes to an end if anyone from his "picture-perfect" family is ever exposed to criticism -- even if one is an "appointee" who's actions may warrant it.
I've been in the room when they curl up and begin to shriek in pain when he's criticized (let alone a family member) and don't think there's enough Xanax in the city to help them deal with that mental anguish. Plus I don't want falling bodies hitting my car as I drive down the Pasadena Freeway near Mount Washington, when the cult followers start ending their own lives in despair.
Yeah, remember the good old days when - to shut people up - dummies like that would always claim the people that opposed them were "blogging in city time." Now that the hoods are off, turns out NO ONE was inside after all.
Ha!
I've always found that the people downtown are the last ones to know what's really going on in the city, they've probably been looking up here to find out what theire bosses really ARE doing.
"I've been in the room when they curl up and begin to shriek in pain when he's criticized"
Wait a minute there, you meant to say that Villaraigosa reads this blog?
I sure do! Got get some laughs....
12:58
Last I heard is that Rudy Diaz is consulting for a clinic in Barstow, or maybe Blythe. He was very upset about the fact that Gloria let his clinic fail. His clinic was the only one servicing undocumented children without turing them away. Gloria in her rage opted not to use her multi-million dollar discretionary evnthough she could have bailed this clinic out. This is the money - 15 million - that is going to the Latino museum where it would be an economic boost for her Olvera Street buddies.
Rudy had divorced Deborah by then but shameless as she is, she stayed on the payroll and was one of the main disruptive influences which contributed to the clinics downfall. Nothing like a woman scorned and she wanted to see Rudy fail. She even sued him after the clinic closed. The only losers here were the 80,000+ patients from East L.A. that now had to go to General Hospital for service, that is if they could tolerate the 14 hour wait.
This is politics in East L.A.. Vindictive, ruthless and merciless. Damn anyone who gets in the way - even pregnant women, as in this case.
"Got get some laughs...."
1.8 college GPA -- yeah, that's him!
Yeah we get a kick listening to you geeks..
Hey...Bratton got the traces on these guy yet?
Got to go, Jose on line two.....
Jose Cuervo, no doubt!
(Where's Skelton going to test his late hits now?)
3:06 Funny hombre here. They will end up tracing this crap all the way to Pasadena, Skelton Unlimited Stories.
Hey 2:48
Lets get it facts right...
1.84
Lets get it facts right?
(My apologies, I forgot to factor in phys ed).
Phys. Ed!? Tony is a full fledged geek when it comes to sports. Have you ever seen him trying to play basketball - like a penguin with a herpes flair up. The only physical education Tony partook in was when he was out seducing his friends' girls - he definitely got a 4.0 for this.
Political watchers are revved up by the spirited battle to fill the 14th District City Council seat previously occupied by Antonio Villaraigosa. The two principal candidates, Nick Pacheco and José Huizar, have already given this race a high profile.
This is just the beginning, as other residential openings, restaurant arrivals and new development projects are bubbling up. In short, it's going to be a great season. Even if the sports teams stumble, as we fear they might, Downtown will still win big.
"Huizar exposed the LA School District's shameful dropout rate and forced the District to begin addressing the problem."
Who's fibbing? Do you want to know the person who exposed the dropout rate to the now Mayor?
Let me know.
the only candidates from cd 14 coming to walk with u next wednesday are Nick PAcheco and Juan Jimenez. Residents here are fed up with the status quo.
Also I will be hosting a forum at the James Woods Community FOrum, if anyone knows the contact info for the other candidates besides Juan Jimenez and Nick PAcheco and Jose HUizar please post tehm here.
or at
http://www.centralcitye.blogspot.com
Dgarzila,
What time on Wed?
You have a great site. Viewed some pics, good to see Juan Jimenez and Nick Pacheco join your walk.
wednesday at 6 pm contact the Central City East association
Dear Residents, Business Owners and Downtown Stakeholders,
We are entering our 3rd month of the Central City East/Skid Row Neighborhood
Walk. This is an opportunity for you meet a diverse group of people in your
community who care about the same issues that you do.
Councilmember Jan Perry, Central City East Association, LAPD, the Midnight
Mission and other service providers have joined Skid Row residents to
organize a monthly neighborhood walk as part of our call for an end to
drug-related criminal behavior in this community.
On Wednesday, September 7th, we will be leading our third walk. We will be
leading this walk on the first Wednesday of each and every month.
Regardless of where you live or work Downtown, we ask you to join us in our
walk and to join the call for an end to crime in our neighborhood. We want
stakeholders from Skid Row, Financial District, Historic Downtown, South
Park, Fashion District, Civic Center, Little Tokyo, Arts District, Brewery,
Chinatown, Central City West. If you care about the crime on our streets,
we want YOU. Thank you to all of you who have joined our previous walks.
When:
Wednesday, September 7th
6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Where:
The walk will begin and end at the courtyard of the new Midnight Mission at
601 S. San Pedro St.
Details:
If you wish to drive, you may park in the Midnight Mission's underground
parking structure. The entrance is on San Pedro St. Please tell the
parking attendant that you are there for the Neighborhood Walk.
The walk will cover approximately 10 blocks. Comfortable shoes are
recommended.
Several LAPD officers from Central Division as well as BID security officers
will accompany us on our walk.
If you have questions, please feel free to call or e-mail me. I hope to see
you there.
Tara Devine
Director, Community & Economic Development
Central City East Association (CCEA)
725 S. Crocker St.
Los Angeles, CA 90021
213.228.8484 ext. 14
213.228.8488 fax
tdevine@centralcityeast.org
some folka have said why am I inviting these people and that we shouldn't be politicizing this walk, well I don't care about that , we just need as many people there to help motivate our law abiding residents to encourage them to help us in cleang up the neighborhood or come out and walk.
Politicize is a lanme excuse for not coming out , this is not a nick rally or jose rally , it is a walk to let folks know we are tired of getting beat up and being the drop off point for people who aren't getting the services they should be after being let out of mental hospitals and prisons. It will be the residents of this area that will change things for the better . Without us it will continue to be the same.
Thanks Dgarzila.
The walk needs as much public participation to open awareness of homeless issues. What harms our fellow man, harms us too, so we need to help each other out in numbers.
Antonio has made so many questionable appointees to commission people are now realizing what an idiot he is. Cynthia Ruiz, campaign committee for AV for Mayor and godmother to his kid appointed Public Works and getting paid $108,000. John Mack, racist endorser of AV on police commission not getting criticized for his bias against LAPD. Valerie Velasco suing LA for LAX expansion now being questioned on commission. Raul Estrada on Board of Neighborhood Council Comm. appointed then secretly resigned. No one knows why. Antonio going to announce appointment of Rev. Logan to replace Raul Estrada on BONC another racist idiot who hates LAPD and friends with Tony Mohammed.
How can Antonio make these motions for CD 14?
(5)05-1296 Motion (Villaraigosa-Parks) and the CAO to report relative to a request for transfer
of $550,000 from the Capital Improvement Expenditure Program to the El Sereno Constituent Service Center-Barrio Action Youth and Family Center Joint-use Project,
to address a funding shortfall
9:05 When did this motion occur, and where can I get public information on this?
May be you guys have some advise for me. I am a single father in a situation, where my 8 yr old son (7 year then) was sexually abused by I-Poly School teacher/personnel on Cal-Poly campus. Naive me wrote to Gloria Molina after Campus Police secretely carried and hush hushed the investigation. Thanks to the accomplice mom who wanted her tenure at school so badly. Now when child tells them the story was real they have detained him for last 3 months and i am really worried. County Counsel, Sheriffs won't release detailed description my son gave them. Please help!
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