Mayor Sam's Hotsheet for Tuesday

Oh no! Digital billboards featuring Ellen Degeneres are igniting fires of discontent, giving a Raison d'être to the Silver Lake Neighborhood Council for the first time since Jason Lyon stirred the pot.  In the meantime a cash-strapped City of Los Angeles has figured out how to make a buck off the situation.

David Horowitz' Front Page Magazine has a piece on Jamiel and Anita Shaw and their mission to pass Jamiel's law.  Another 23,000 signatures are needed by December 5th.  Your help is urgently needed to help make the goal.

All the votes are yet to be counted but Measure R is still inching towards passage.  LAist has a rundown of the wish list of public transit projects that politicians would like to build with the increased sales tax.  Question: what happens when the bad economy and rises in other taxes fails to bring in the expected revnue?

Goofy old liberal Bill Boyarsky - among those waiting for the New Deal and the second coming of Franklin Delano Roosevelt - thinks the election of Obama and the passage of big boondoggle taxpayer government works projects will be the water that lifts all boats. Problem is Bill, this isn't 1932 and the economy works a lot differently than when Duke Ellington sang It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing).

Jamiel's Law Gets Support of the Midtown North Hollywood Neighborhood Council

Disclosure: I am a member of the Midtown North Hollywood Neighborhood Council Board of Directors.

Wednesday evening Jamiel and Anita Shaw spoke before the Board of Directors of the Mid-Town North Hollywood Neighborhood Council, re-telling the tragic murder of their 17 year old son Jamiel and their efforts to pass Jamiel's Law, which will provide one tool against ending gang violence.

The Board passed unanimously passed a resolution is support of Jamiel's Law when it comes to the ballot as well as called on the City Council to move a similar measure sponsored by Council Member Dennis Zine out of Jack Weiss' Public Safety Committee so it may proceed to a full vote by the Council.

Jamiel and Anita Shaw speak to the Midtown North Hollywood Neighborhood Council

At the same meeting, the Council also approved a resolution I authored offering our support for the Los Angeles City Council's position in opposition to Proposition 8, a measure on the November California ballot that would overturn a recent court decision allowing same-sex couples to marry legally.

A previous decision by DONE and the City Attorney has ruled that Neighborhood Councils may not take positions on state or federal legislation however we determined that our Board could take a position supporting the City Council's position.