Mayor Sam's Hotsheet for Monday

The Grand Avenue boondoggle becomes even more so. Developer Related Companies now says that the project has to be delayed at least 16 months due to current market conditions. LA County Supervisor Mike Antonovich is angered by the moving; stating that other developers may have bid or been considered had they known the project deadline would be moved. Antonovich is now calling for the project to be put back out to bid. How about we go one better - cancel the thing now before it sucks billions and billions of dollars of tax money from police, fire, parks, streets, education and more.

Doug McIntyre admits that he forgot to vote last Tuesday. I too, for the first time in many years did not cast a ballot. Doug's reason is he was busy and engaged with other things; mine was I was pretty sick in bed. As bad as that seems, McIntyre and I are of the same mind: why bother? Voter participation is so low that the brain dead masses that do vote can be so easily manipulated by the special interests and idiocy reigns supreme. On a sidenote, given how abysmally low voter turnout was, we don't want to hear any more electeds complaining about Neighborhood Council election turnout.

Zuma Dogg has made a habit for many to watch Los Angeles City Council meetings on Channel 35 on cable TV within the City. However residents of Upland and Ontario will no longer get coverage of City Council meetings in those cities as the local cable operator, Time Warner, will no longer cover them.





Now that Hillary Clinton's dropped out of the Presidential race, Mayor Villaraigosa has jumped on the Barack Obama bandwagon. And maybe it's helping: a recent poll shows the Illinois Democrat capturing up to 62 percent of Latino vote over Senator John McCain.

They've been installed all over Los Angeles but an unusual coalition of the NAACP, the Libertarian Party and environmental groups are joining up to place a measure on the ballot to reject traffic cameras in Cincinnati, Ohio.

When it comes to potential Presidential daughters, blogger Meghan McCain appears to be one of the more interesting to come down the pike in a while. The 23 year old recent Columbia University grad is traveling with her father - Senator and Republican Presidential nominee John McCain - and blogging the campaign from the Gen Y point of view. Looks like Meghan will most likely be the next Eleanor Mondale or Ron Reagan.