Mayor Sam's Hotsheet for Tuesday

Los Angeles has a vast network of equipment that collects traffic data from all over the City. This is a major resource that could gather significant trends over a period of time to direct planning and transportation decisions. Well that is if the City didn't dump the entire database every three days.

Once again antics surround a Neighborhood Council and this time its in the Valley. Though to be sure, in this case the Council wasn't involved. Local neighborhood cranks are apparently turning out bogus newsletters for the Mid Town North Hollywood Neighborhood Council and riling up various factions.

A blue ribbon panel spent 15 months crafting a report on how to take Neighborhood Councils to the next level. But apparently the City Council is putting the report on the shelf. The status quo is so much more fun right?

The Nanny State continues to grow but this time Lloyd "The Bachelor" Levine is not invovled. The City of Beverly Hills has banned smoking in the outdoor smoking section of restaurants. I absolutely hate smoking but if you want to do it, it's your right. Especially if it's outside while I'm inside.

Saying that "our lawmakers have reneged on their promise," the powerful Valley Industry and Commerce Association has voted to oppose a state legislative term extension measure placed on the February Presidential Primary ballot.

We hear rumor that David Markland's Halloween blog, Creepy Los Angeles, is going to actually channel the old, dead Republican Mayor himself. The real Mayor Sam was scary to some folks; now he officially becomes part of Halloween lore. Interesting too (to me anyway) that this blog is the number one search result in Google for Sam Yorty, even over his own entry in Wikipedia! As long as we are on the subject it looks like the real Mayor even had some involvement with the occult (sort of).

And finally, I'm not moving to Iowa but maybe someone wants to make a better life in Kansas. Here's a job opening for one of you bureaucrat types.