This is the city: Los Angeles, California. I work here. I'm an ex-mayor. Los Angeles is a magnet for people from all over the world. Some of them run for public office. Inevitably some of them stray from the golden rule and rule for those that have the gold. That's when I go to work. My name is Yorty. I'm a dead pol.
Crime is down in the Valley but still up overall citywide. Despite a "moratorium" on murder called for by members of the City Council, a significant wave of murder and violence swept across LA this weekend. One thing city leaders could to make a big dent in gang violence is to support Jamiel's Law and at least give the Police the opportunity to thin out criminal illegal aliens from Los Angeles. The parents of Jamiel Shaw II - a young, innocent high school student allegedly shot by an illegal alien who had been released from jail hours before - are going to City Hall Tuesday morning to support the overturning of Special Order 40 for criminal illegal alien gangs.
I guess folks who work for doctors, hospitals, lawyers and accounts that have celebrity clients think it's an employee benefit to search through stars' personal records. Previously, over a dozen workers at UCLA Medical Center were busted for snooping through the medical files of Britney Spears. A new report says that months before that several others at UCLA browsed records for actress Farrah Fawcett, who has been battling cancer. Particularly troubling for Fawcett was that news of her illness was covered by tabloids before she could inform her family. UPDATE: The KENNEDY REPUBLICAN's medical records were also snooped in!
I'm not sure if anyone even is paying attention, but the Mayor's State of the City speech is coming up next Monday. Rick Orlov is saying its going to be nothing more than a repeat of last year's speech. So I suggest you tune in instead to the latest episode of "Big Bang Theory," when Leonard and Sheldon meet a 15-year-old physics prodigy, Sheldon is distraught that this boy genius is younger and smarter, so in an attempt to restore his sense of purpose, the boys come up with a solution to derail Dennis ' research.
Zero tolerance and political correctness have rum amok at a Colorado elementary school. An eight year old boy was suspended for coloring a part of his sleeve with a Sharpie and then apparently smelling the ink. However, you can't get high from sniffing a Sharpie.
Foothill Cities Blog snared an interview with California State Senate Candidate Carol Liu. If you read the interview you'll walk away with gems like one of Liu's qualities of an effective legislator: "the rise to a position (or positions) of power within the institution." Yea, that's exactly what we want is legislators spending their time jockeying for personal power instead of solving problems, or even better, get out of the way.
We missed it, but Monday was Jerry Brown's 70th birthday. How did the former and possibly once again Governor Moonbeam spend his special day? With his wife at a trappist monastery. Ah, some things never change! Should we have bought him a Plymouth?
Pico Rivera changed the date of its Clowncil meetings to accomdate Arnold's schedule.
Alvarez-Glassman and his wife Lydia have donated several thousand dollars to City Council member's campaigns; City Councils who hired Arnold's firm to provide legal services.
According to the San Gabriel Valley Tribube, the City of Montebello fired Arnold for being too cozy with local developers.
Arnold was also fired by the City of South El Monte. You will all be glad to know that the hubris and arrogance of local electeds definitely extends beyond Spring Street. No word at present if Mrs. Alvarez-Glassman has wrecked any cars owned by the cities that employ her husband nor if they have city staff babysitting their children or doing chores for them.
Indeed, FC alludes to the Papers, which called for ratification of the US Constitution in the 1780s, in that one of the anony-bloggers at FC goes by the handle "Publius," the very same pseudonym used by Jay, Hamilton and Madison.
Had the WWG been around in the 18th century, publishing Colonies Observed, no doubt he would have been a pissy tory.
You may remember that Attorney Glassman-Alvarez thought he could scare the crap out of FC for publishing stories that reported various allegations against the Pomona's controversial City Manager, Doug Dunlap.
Well he thought wrong. And it looks like should Pomona go after the blog, they're just going to waste the City's money and set it up for the bloggers to get a very nice payday.
Score one for the bloggers. Maybe Pomona should fire Arnold and find an attorney who has a clue.
Joining the Westside White Guy in downplaying or poo-pooing Ron Kaye's bitch slap against LA, BlogDowntown gets the headcount wrong and goes off into non-sequitirs from the City's semi-colorful past. How about focusing on what was said rather than what people were wearing? 
