Mayor Sam's Hotsheet for Tuesday
The City of Long Beach is looking at something the City of LA should consider - privatizing it's airport. The Federal Government has a program to allow this however only Chicago's Midway Airport has gotten anywhere near close (hmm...they may want to double check those deals). However I believe the City should sell NOT lease LAX to the highest bidder, then put the sale proceeds into a trust for some stated civic purpose (like Police). The City and LAWA have a hard enough leasing vendor spots without corruption; imagine if they had to approve leases for the whole airport. The story over the outrage on the business killing crazy parking rules and overpriced parking meters in NoHo gets legs. Not only an LA Times story but KTLA picks up the television pice of the story. LeBong is "working on it."
One blog writes its final chapter while another one emerges on the blog-LA-sphere. The venerable Boi from Troy, USC loving gay Republican Scott Olin Schmidt, announces he is leaving the blog he has made home for five years. On the other hand the guy who gave major juice to both the Huffington Post and the Drudge Report, Andrew Breitbart, fires up Big Hollywood this morning. Breitbart says his new site is "not a “celebrity gabfest or a gossip outpost" but a "continuous politics and culture posting board for those who think something has gone drastically wrong and that Hollywood should return to its patriotic roots."
A few days ago I challenged the practice of being a NIMBY only and asked where is the vision for Los Angeles? 20 year old LA native and current Columbia student Adam Seiff crafts one in the Daily News of all places. Seiff opines that the "L.A. of our lifetimes will be fueled by new industrial centers to provide high-paying jobs, affordable housing to live in and accessible public spaces to enjoy."
Matt Burch, a fitness trainer at BodyImage Gym in the Noho Arts District became a local hero recently when he captured a purse snatcher. Burch was working out at the Lankershim Boulevard gym when he noticed local NoHo Business Improvement District security guards having trouble catching up with the fleeing crook. Burch dashed out of the gym, flew past the guards and tackled the bad guy until Police could arrive. Burch says, however, don't try this at home. He's a long time martial arts practioner and body builder who happens to be a veteran repo man and star of the TruTV network reality show Operation Repo.
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Labels: andrew breitbart, boi from troy, LAX, long beach, mayor antonio villaraigosa, noho arts district, parking meters
Posted by Michael Higby @ 1/06/2009 02:00:00 AM
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That guy Matt is not the main repo guy on that show, but there's a clip with him having some loud-mouthed guy getting hands-on: "No Day At The Beach."
The repo-ed guy looks like he's no stranger to being belligerent, but Matt's not phased. The repo biz owner is even bigger that them all- and I never noticed that until just seeing everyone together.
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The $1/hr. meters are in Eagle Rock, too. But extending meters to 8 pm from the 6 pm ending time is the worst part of the whole change. At least there was some relief at a reasonable time.
Contrast that with the nearby city of South Pasadena that has no parking meters. That's so business friendly AND they have thousands of trees already since not much new development was happening until recently.
And this meter business goes to show you one example of how the City Council's initiating moves go pretty much unnoticed by the general public, even a little tough to pick out as an "agenda item" by regular watchers.
City Council relies on sliding their moves without fanfare so as not to rile up the public as they continue the Villaraigosa-ordered mission to "generate revenue" or make giveaway deals with organizations and city property.
What happened to that matter that Rosendahl brought out a few months back where he wanted city fines for certain tinted auto windows as a "safety hazard" because they block the view. That's all, like most of their reasons, purely "pretextual." (There's already some Vehicle Code coverage on that topic, by the way.)
A blacked-out rear window on an SUV only blocks the view of another SUV; the SUV itself, being a much taller vehicle, is what blocks the view of most regular passenger cars behind it.
Maybe that's what they should consider if safety really meant anything. How about a double-parked SUV waiting for a $1/hr. parking spot to open up?
Garcetti is favoring making parking UN-friendly to discourage automoble use and push his "public transportation" ideas that will give us a pedestrian friendly central city. Go-Green-Eric doesn't care about the realities of most things (Green $$ somewhere in there?).
Thanks for your hard work, city council and city hall. You really managed to make 2008 very notable for us. I hope we can return the favor in 2009, starting with the March 3rd elections.
In cd-14- for Zuma. You can hate ZD if you want but he's into city operations like nobody's business. And the MAYOR? No Way. Tony's the 11%-No Morals, MIA, sold-to-the-highest-bidder candidate, caught up in his own publicity..... in my opinion.
This Sieff kid: running for Mayor in 2025?
Sieff For Mayor in 2025?
Privatize LAX? Higby, you now show how little you understand about Los Angeles.
The amount of development alone is far and away beyong most companies to undertake and fund, and the necessity of cooperation with all other city agencies makes a privatization impossible.
For the first time since Cliff Moore, there is a real live Airport executive runnig LAWA.
Gina Marie Lindsey is the real thing, and her recent successful re-do of SeaTac for $4 Billion is testimony to her ability, tact, knowlege and understanding of the airport business. She's replaced alot of dead wood and things are humming now at LAWA under her steady hand.
And, who appointed her? Let's see, was it Zuma Dogg? Nah. How about Walter Moore? Nope.
Oh, it must be that do-nothnig, know-nothing Mayor who is going to get re-elected in a landslide come March.
By the way, the same holds true for the Harbor under Geraldine Knatz. Zuma and Walter didn't appoint her, either.
And, despite what you may think, David Nahai does a great job at LADWP.
Go back and look at the career dorks that ran the city under Jimmy Hahn and compare the sheer ability of management under our do-nothing, know-nothing Mayor.
This is why he will be re-elected; cranes are working steadily in the city and the city is moving forward.
You need to spend less time pimping for that smelly loud fool Zuma and more time trying to understand the good things that the Villaraigosa adminstration has done and is doing for LA.
P.S. I do not work for the city or for the mayor, and I have never met Trujillo.
The parking meter increase is yet another issue that the City Council rubber-stamped and is now trying to act like they weren't informed about all the ramifications. They are trying to pin it on LADOT in the meeting this morning, but DOT threw it back at them saying they were only "implementing" the councils ordinance. Now the council is ordering LADOT and the CAO to study the issue. Wendy Gruehl calls it a good discussion. It should have been a "good discussion" in her committe before they approved the increase. Do they have any idea how incompetent they look? They act like someone else approved this and THEY are trying to fix it for "their public".
The market may not be good right now for the leasing of airports, but it's a long process and this is the time to start.
Understand that LAX isn't producing a cent for Los Angeles. The City could get a huge amount of money each year from it that could be used to reduce taxes, and/or pay for services.
As part of the deal, any controls you want could be part of it.
Higby, I thought you were Mr. Free Enterprise and Mr. Free Market.
If the private sector is willing to put out that kind of cash to run LAX, can you imagine how inefficently it's being run now?
Now we know.
Phil Krackhead is Ace Smith.
Get back to work Ace, Jerry Brown is on the line.
more time trying to understand the good things that the Villaraigosa adminstration has done and is doing for LA.
-Fucked Mirthala
-Danced with the Grinch
-Installed a urinal
-Cleaned some toilets
-Went to Rosa Parks' funeral
-Got Hillary nominated, uh, oops, scratch that
-Worked 11% of the time
-Got himself cast in wax
-Made breakfast for his kids
-Sat behind BJ Bill Clinton at Democratic convention
-Hung out in lobby at DNC
-Cleaned some more toilets
-Called Doug McIntyre inflammatory
-Created his own foreign policy
-Partied with Rush Limbaugh, George Lopez and Eva Longoria
-Filled some potholes
Phil is right! Villaraigosa is the best mayor ever!
Phil Krakover must have got a real good BJ from H. David this morning. Either that or he really is on crack.
Sieff for Mayor is a great idea. You are right--we need a positive template for the future of our community--and a reason for the talented local kids to stay in town.
It is amusing that the mental midgets on this blog can only summon up pejoratives aobut peoples' names or weight in order to make their points (if they have any).
Michal, how did a good Republican moderate/conservative attract so many Democrats?
God save us now that they are in control of everything...
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