Friday Hotsheet at 7 a.m.
If you live in California, bad luck; but worse luck if you live in LA, this UCLA study of public schools concludes.
Remember back in 1985, when the State Lottery was touted as a way to fix the schools? "Your schools win, too," the campaign to pass the Lottery promised, as State Lottery dollars would be earmarked for schooling.
Which everyone who knew anything about budgeting knew was a lie, because dollars the Lottery raised would simply displace, not truly supplement, dollars the State would give to schooling.
The biggest opponent to the Lottery was the state's horse racing industry; a fact that the Lottery proponents turn around and promoted. The State racing industry was vilified in the campaign.
Now it's over two decades later, and not only have the schools lost, but Hollywood Park is on tenterhooks, as it has been every fall meet for quite a while. It's been put in peril by convenience store gaming, which affords far less dignity and far longer odds than the Sport of Kings.
Next time you're in a 7-Eleven, take a look at who's buying Lottery tix. Chances are, it's someone who could have benefitted from better schools ten and twenty years ago. It's a self-perpetuating cycle; worse education, more dependence on convenience store gaming, less and less dignity.
But that's what you get---and that's what you deserve---when you earmark the future of your State to gaming proceeds from your local 7-Eleven casino.
This is the best the Fishwrap of Record can come up with locally this morning. Not worth a click.
At that LA Press Club panel last night, an out-of-town editor was asked when the Times began to lose it. Well, he wasn't asked, he just volunteered an opinion. He said that it was when the Times stopped its community-specific sections.
It was pointed out that the Times has lost 300,000 subscribers since then---the whole circ of the OCRegister, lost. And the funny thing was, most panelists concured that that wasn't as bad as it could be, given the way the paper has been drifting for the past decade.
In desperation, do we dare turn to the Daily Breeze for local news? Yes, and a good thing we did. Carson shut out Banning in the best high school rivalry game in SoCal. That's gotta hurt all up and down the Wilmington strip of PCH.
Remember back in 1985, when the State Lottery was touted as a way to fix the schools? "Your schools win, too," the campaign to pass the Lottery promised, as State Lottery dollars would be earmarked for schooling.
Which everyone who knew anything about budgeting knew was a lie, because dollars the Lottery raised would simply displace, not truly supplement, dollars the State would give to schooling.
The biggest opponent to the Lottery was the state's horse racing industry; a fact that the Lottery proponents turn around and promoted. The State racing industry was vilified in the campaign.
Now it's over two decades later, and not only have the schools lost, but Hollywood Park is on tenterhooks, as it has been every fall meet for quite a while. It's been put in peril by convenience store gaming, which affords far less dignity and far longer odds than the Sport of Kings.
Next time you're in a 7-Eleven, take a look at who's buying Lottery tix. Chances are, it's someone who could have benefitted from better schools ten and twenty years ago. It's a self-perpetuating cycle; worse education, more dependence on convenience store gaming, less and less dignity.
But that's what you get---and that's what you deserve---when you earmark the future of your State to gaming proceeds from your local 7-Eleven casino.
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This is the best the Fishwrap of Record can come up with locally this morning. Not worth a click.
At that LA Press Club panel last night, an out-of-town editor was asked when the Times began to lose it. Well, he wasn't asked, he just volunteered an opinion. He said that it was when the Times stopped its community-specific sections.
It was pointed out that the Times has lost 300,000 subscribers since then---the whole circ of the OCRegister, lost. And the funny thing was, most panelists concured that that wasn't as bad as it could be, given the way the paper has been drifting for the past decade.
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In desperation, do we dare turn to the Daily Breeze for local news? Yes, and a good thing we did. Carson shut out Banning in the best high school rivalry game in SoCal. That's gotta hurt all up and down the Wilmington strip of PCH.
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Posted by Joseph F. Mailander @ 11/09/2007 06:33:00 AM
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Some just can't change.
L.A. council resists mayor on end to fee waivers
By Kerry Cavanaugh, Staff Writer
Article Last Updated: 11/08/2007 09:26:36 PM PST
The mayor and City Council are butting heads over a proposal to cut roughly $5 million in special-event fee waivers that council members grant to nonprofits hosting parades, block parties and other events.
To please constituents and aid community groups, the City Council last year waived fees for more than 1,100 special events, totaling $5.8 million in city staff time and resources.
This year, facing a severe financial crunch, City Administrative Officer Karen Sisson recommended a moratorium on special-event fee waivers to save between $3 million and $5 million.
But the City Council's Budget and Finance Committee has balked at a moratorium.
"You have council members who were very vocal about farmers markets or neighborhood events," said committee Chairman Councilman Bernard Parks.
"They're not going to approve a moratorium without understanding how it's going to impact the community."
Red Spot is right, "some just can't change."
And here he goes, trying to punish the poor for being poor...again.
Instead of advocating a screening system for events that CAN pay, Spot just wants to let the privileged folk have their events (because they can pay) while the poorer communities can't and won't because they simply "can't afford" to.
Nice work, Red. You're a fine advocate for building community.
Bernie wants to hold Bratton to a financial level of overtime assigned LAPD back in 93-4 fiscal year, arbitrary and about 1/3 needed back then, now -- with the mandates of the Consent Decree Bratton inherited, and after 9/11 the addition of anti-terror concerns and funding requirements that just didn't exist 6 years ago -- the LAPD "budget" is known by all sides to be irrelevant to actual needs.
So Bitter Bernie telling Bratton he's over-budget is a shell game.
Now he won't cut fee waivers, because he, Janice Hahn and the others representing South Central have been the worst abusers of it.
Along with Huizar, Alarcon and some of the Hispanics.
Garcetti is right, that cutting support for things like the Oscars, Emmys and AFI Film Festival, all of which raise our international profile and keep in town events that generate a lot of peripheral business, would be dumb. They need to pare with a finer knife -- but spiteful Bernie can't be in charge.
ALSO Bratton complains in the L A Times interview yesterday (very gently, he knows who he has to answer to) not only about Bernie but after the fact that Council refused to charge for all those parades and marches.
(He doesn't say but must be thinking, if they'd be less happy to force the cops to escort marches for free -- not free but at taxpayer expense, free to the organizers -- we'd have have had a May 1st Mellee in the first place. A small march would have been easier to contain. The lawsuits resulting from that are the biggest single waste of money this year.
And who pays for their cleanup, trashing the city's streets, lawns, etc.? We do.)
People in their reader blog agreed they're fed up with subsidizing these wastes of money, and then having inadequate cops on their own streets.
That's something not mentioned in all this -- but a far greater expense than fee waivers even.
Bernie says the Mayor can't override the Budget Committee, but there has to be some oversight over the Council as a whole. So Bernie can bite it.
Definitely sounds right -- if those pro-illegal marchers had been kept to a certain budget before being charged themselves for police overtime, the cleanup and so on, they wouldn't have had that full-day march of thousands.
A small march in one area would have been easy to contain, seal off the borders to a park, street, whatever. When people have block parties downtown, they are kept behind barricades, booze monitored, all that stuff. Absurd that these illegals should have gotten a blank check to march from downtown to McArthur Park, thousands of them, coming and going, letting agitators jump in with no monitoriing at all.
It's those damn lawsuits we're paying for and will pay for for years. First in negative P R, which always leads to more lawsuits, and Bernie is right up there in front leading the hecklers who accuse the LAPD of still having "institutional racism."
Bull, Bill Bratton is so much more forthcoming about everything that Bitter Bernie with his imperious attitude ever was or is. Being black doesn't give him an automatic moral edge over everyone else.
The Daily News has to beat their drums over making the lefties on the Council cutting freebie anti- American marches, and to be P C they'll have to cut these things based on size and scale, not ethnic or political content. But I don't see a lot of people in the Valley or Westside abusing these privileges anyway.
The more Bernie shows himself and tries to grandstand against the LAPD, the more it's backfiring against him.
Maybe he thought he can get free press towards his BOS race, but he's going to find the Rocky Delgadillo backlash, the door is going to whack him in the behind so hard he'll go flying out of the tavern. That dandy with his giant pinkie ring he loves to wave around, will be left in the dust at High Noon.
But Bernie will have one major legacy in removing the "n" word from L A's Lexicon.
Guess who's using the N word daily at City Hall, including today right before Bernie and his caravan of black leaders spoke against it?
Matt Dowd, who's taken to using white fase, too, thinking he's black like his sidekick mike hunt.
Who needs writers on TV shows, when you have this farce: a vagrant from Venice Beach who thinks he's black, using the "n" word about himself as Bernie, who's black, is trying to ban it in those august chambers.
Yes, this blog sure has the top flight bloggers and contributors.
Didn't zuma include butt buddy matt for co-credit in ending fee waivers?
Which Bernie opposes. He's not giving matt his seal of approval as an honorary black person.
Poor Bitter Bernie. You have to feel sorry for a man who has no ethics, guts and serious mental issues. Every newspaper has blasted him for being a crybaby and attacking LAPD. He just can't seem to move on with his vindictiveness. HELLOOO Bernie waves thousands of dollars for USC and corporate sponsored events. So does Perry like the hgue LA MArt Fashion week, Huizar over $100,000 on Fiesta Broadway that has major sponsors like the beer companies and McDonalds. why aren't the lazy ass reporters saying how much did all those damn illegal marches cost the city???? There were over 15 of them this year. They had LAPD on tactical alert, DOT, Street Services c'mon you scumbag reporters where's your guts to put the facts out there.
Hey the special event waiver fees cost more like $10 million dollars. Why isn't the media reporting the right numbers??????
Home Depot in S-T suing the city for $10 million, claiming Wendy Greuel's office worked both sides on the issue: advising the local community on how to fight H D to get her support, then sitting as judge and jury on the case. After the project was allegedly 90% complete and in compliance with city planners.
Poor Bitter Bernie. You have to feel sorry for a man who has no ethics, guts and serious mental issues. Every newspaper has blasted him for being a crybaby and attacking LAPD. He just can't seem to move on with his vindictiveness.
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Poor Mayor Sam. You have to feel sorry for a man who has no ethics, guts and serious mental issues. Every newspaper has blasted him for being a crybaby and attacking Mayor V. He just can't seem to move on with his vindictiveness.
Doesn't our Constitution say something about FREEDOM OF ASSEMBLY.
I think there should be a new tax on walking around on city streets.
If people would be charged a very nominal amount, we could fix the sidewalks and save over $ 5,000,000 in city negligence payouts for unsafe maintenance.
Can I tell you all that Perry has the most dysfunctional neighborhood councils in the entire city. The Vernon Main Street one has Black Panthers on it and all they do is fight. The Central one is just as bad and are made up of radical idiots who are racists and hate cops. Dumb N eighborhood Alliance again showing they have no clue what's going on in the city and always kiss ass to the moron council members. Perry I don't think has ever been to an Alliance meeting in 5 years. Noah is an idiot.
...Finally, we're honored to have Councilwoman Jan Perry to present her perceptions of the values and functions of Neighborhood Councils, particularly as they relate to South Los Angeles. Of course there'll be time for questions from the stakeholders.
ASK PERRY WHAT HER RADICAL NC'S HAVE DONE IN SOUTH LA BUT FIGHT WITH EACHOTHER AND BE THREATED BY THET BLACK PANTHERS ON THE BOARD
Don't say that. Bernie will say that there is no language that requires sidewalks to be fixed from maintenance repair budgets, so he can take it for the general reserve.
since he's sure to support the next race-baiting lawsuit that comes along we need to keep the reserve available
10:08, your comment about Red Spot is as much of a stretch of reasoning as the city council declaring its opposition to the war in Iraq (which is not in its jurisdiction to do so), but yet declaring immigration enforcement to be a Federal problem. City council can't have it both ways.
10:23, the illegals marched on MacArthur Park WITHOUT a permit!
3:23, our Federal Constitution does say something about freedom of assembly, but remember... that should be Federally enforced, not city-enforced (see opening paragraph above). Besides, illegal marches hardly qualify as assemblies (gatherings).
Jose, tu eres estupido grande.
anon 7:03, Tu eres muy tonto.
For those on the blog who do not speak spanish, I've responded in kind to anon 7:03 pm. I resent my twin brother being called very stupid.
If anon 7:03 would prefer, perhaps he would care to engage me in a handkerchief duel?
You guys are brothers? We thought you were just homos.
9:50, You don't wish to mix it up with us.
We'd never want to break you guys up. You make too cute a couple.
Hey Juan, we saw your song parody the other day. Right about now, I'd say we're all feeling pretty safe around you.
11:51, thank you. I was hoping someone would add a couple of stanzas to the parody; I guess it was too much to hope for.
It's a wonder neither the pirate nor the privateer added to it...
Even Captain Lame couldn't make that lame parody any lamer. That's probably why he didn't try.
"Lame" anon, I'm going to hit the "hay" so to speak. It's going to be a busy day tomorrow. Our sister Juanita has invited our families over for menudo tomorrow morning, or rather this morning. Around 1 pm, we're going to MacArthur Park for the tamale festival; I don't know about Jose and his family, but my wife, kids, and I will probably be paying for having stuffed ourselves with tamales.
Good night, Chet.
Good night, David.
Hey Juan, what's the Spanish word for "beard"?
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