Fourteen Things I Hate About You
By Walter Moore, Chief Economist and Legal Analyst, L.A. Policy Institute.The Westin Bonaventure has opened a second front in City Hall's war against hotels owned by people who have not contributed to local career politicians' campaign funds.
As you know, the City Clowncil and Mayor have been giving your money to the rich developers who want to build hotel rooms and other structures on Grand Avenue. We're talking subsidies, "rebates," tax breaks, and below-market prices for public land. The Clowncil has also tried to force other hotels, near LAX, to pay higher wages than other businesses. The LAX hotels are fighting back.
Now at least one other downtown hotel is also fighting back, opening a second front in this economic war. A lawyer for the Westin Bonaventure has sent a letter to a City Clowncil committee identifying 14 reasons the Grand Avenue project is illegal, in his opinion. You can read the letter yourself by visiting my online document bin.
I've got to warn you though, it may make my nine-minute video seem short. The good news is, when you read through stuf like this, you won't regret having skipped the whole law school thing.
Posted by Walter Moore @ 2/10/2007 06:54:00 PM
13 Comments:
I wonder if the City will still do the NC Congress (at $162,00.00+++) at the Bonaventure?
Coincidence?
here's the best reason to fly Qantas Airways
Sorry, its off topic, but the stewardess involved should work for the mayor, now she's fired.
her spin on this incident is nothing short of the spins we get here on the blog.
blatant lies, but entertaining at the least.
phew, slow night on the blog.
here's another topic for you Walter. how about we use the millions of dollars saved by doing this and use that money for border security to prevent illegal entries who now appear to be part of the cause of school system decline. Lack of English speaking ability is a big issue, migrants need to get that in their heads. English is the world language, airline pilots, the UN, olympics, this blog, and so on.
Learn it, teach it, use it, and your life will dramatically improve in the United States.
communicating with powers that be is a MUST.
apart from that bit, now I know why I cancelled my LA Times subscription months ago. today's Sunday sdition Times first few pages are full page ads for who knows what, I threw it down in disgust.
"English is the world language, airline pilots, the UN, olympics"
Now we know just how stupid Dowd really is.
"English is the world language, airline pilots, the UN, olympics"
Now we know just how stupid Dowd really is.
Walter,
After you rebut Patrick's argument in the "We Are Not Amused," thread, you may want to read Janice Hahn's unconvincing "defense" of the "living wage," in a Daily Breeze column today. Good amusement to start the day. Briefly: she is suddenly concerned about "Los Angeles taxpayers," specifically $5 million (cost of the election). Janice Hahn, concerned about taxpayers?! That's a good one!
(how about the $2.7 million she was ready to fork over to Tennie).
Here's another waste of our tax payer dollars. How many people does Villaraigosa have on the payroll out of the "Mayor's office"working on the LAUSD plan? This girl is supposed to be the Eastside Area Director not anything to do with LAUSD yet she's having a meeting on Feb. 13th for LAUSD.
Abigail Ramirez-Marquez, Eastside Area Director Neighborhood and Community Services
Office of Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa
dailynews.com
"The mayor's Community Partnership for Better Schools is prepared to spend upward of $1 million in an effort to replace incumbent Jon Lauritzen with Tamar Galatzan, a lawyer and parent whom Villaraigosa has endorsed for the San Fernando Valley seat. Lauritzen already has gotten more than $300,000 from teachers unions and is likely to get a lot more.
The valley and south side of L.A. are where Mayor Villaraigosa has historically run weakest with the voting population. Because he's still trying to gain their trust, he's not willing to wage a pitched, high-level battle which may cost him politically in the future," said Jaime Regalado, director of the Edmund G. "Pat" Brown Institute of Public Affairs at California State University, Los Angeles......Tamar Galatzan is going to have everything she needs to run an effective campaign to communicate to Valley voters why a change agent needs to be on the school board," said her campaign manager, Mike Trujillo, whose salary is being paid by the mayor's group. Another key challenge for Galatzan is to use Villaraigosa's endorsement while persuading voters that she's not simply his puppet, Regalado said - a problem the Riordan-backed candidates experienced in 2003.
to 9.00 am
"More than 1 billion people are believed to speak some form of English. For every native speaker there are three non-native speakers. Three-quarters of the world’s mail is in English and four-fifths of electronic information is stored in English."
thats
80% !!! of electronic information is stored in English.
its beyond a fact already.
read more facts and numbers here
and take another drink, it appears you have the early morning shakes with your double post
lol
Yeah, English is the modern lingua franca -- for now. Matt is 100% right on this one.
Dowd - Double post due to MayorSam being a shitty site
Interesting information on English...unfortuantely Mandarin is still the world-leader in spoken language. And please let me know when pilots in China and Japan start using English for flights within Asia, or when more delegates speak in English than in their native tongues (The UN has several "official languages" and the US doesn't even have an official language.
Uh, yeah. Only YOUR posts appear twice, but it's because Mayor Sam is a bad site. I guess it's because that fly-by-night company, Google, runs the computers.
Bitter, party of one. Bitter, party of one.
2:56 - "Double post due to MayorSam being a shitty site"
Now the rest of us know why you post here - you wanna spread the manure around!
I wonder what language all the flight and operational engineering manuals for Boeing come out in.
oh yeah, Mandarin. how stupid of me.
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