Eagle Rock Progressive Hans Johnson to talk Charter Amendment 1 & 2 Sunday Morning on KNBC's "News Conference" with Colan Nolan

"No on Charter Amendment 1 & 2 Advocate" Hans Johnson, to appear this Sunday morning on KABC's News Conference.

East Side (via Eagle Rock) Progressive Democrat Hans Johnson (yellow tie) in KNBC Studios.

From our blogging friend Peter Choi ..........,

Eagle Rock resident Hans Johnson, President of the Eagle Rock/NELA based East Area Progressive Democrats, will be discussing Charter Amendments 1 & 2 with host Conan Nolan on 'News Conference' this Sunday at 9 a.m. on NBC4. "News Conference" is the longest running political/public affairs program in Southern California television.

Your thoughts ..............

Scott Johnson in CD 14

Another Mayoral Debate!

Tonight, at USC, 7:00 p.m. on NBC4, Telemundo 52 and nbcla.com.

NewsConference: Kevin James, Los Angeles Mayoral Candidate

KNBC's Conan Nolan speaks with Mayoral candidate Kevin James.


 

View more videos at: http://nbclosangeles.com.

Also, a special piece with Tom Brokaw talking about his days as a newsman in LA.

Mayor Sam's Hotsheet for Wednesday

If there is a tipping point for the City's controversial practice of offering special event fee waivers - that is covering the costs of traffic control, police, trash, etc. for events held in the City, history may show that it was Tuesday when the Council approved over $3K in waivers for something called :"Dyke Day." Many gays and lesbians were offended at the approval of an event that many feel includes a derogatory term; many other Angelenos were offended that Tuesday the Council approved another $75K in the waivers at a time when Los Angeles may be facing bankruptycy. The word of "Dyke Day" kicked up quite the meme in the blogs-LA-phere with coverage at LAist and RonKayeLA.

The Beckford Elementary School Parents Blog gives a good blow by blow of the scene from Tuesday's LA Unified Board of Education meeting where teachers' union members and other activtists were on hand to protest planned teacher layoffs. The District will send layoff notices to about 9,000 employees as a precautionary measure should the LAUSD actually have to reduce staff later this year.

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is leading the pack in the number of people who are following his micro-blogging "tweets" on the Twitter service. Newsom has over 43,000 followers while potential opponent Mayor Villaraigosa has just 798. Your favorite old, dead Republican Mayor has 48 followers and I'm not even running for office.

We send our best wishes to Downtown Central City East Blogger Don Garza. As you may know Don has been living and blogging from Skid Row for several years and has experienced health problems due to his living situation. Don now has an opportunity to create a blog design firm and had his first presentation Tuesday. Good luck to Don who not only wants to earn a living but use the resources his business will provide him to help the homeless. That's not only admirable, it's the way things should be.

Franklin Avenue reports on a new local digital channel for New York City created by NBC, "New York Non-Stop." Of course comes the usual whine "Why don't we have this in LA?" But, as even the Franklins note, LA does have an NBC digital station, the excellent KNBC News Raw. The station is able to use the expanded time it has to cover imporant issues in-depth and has recently produced well-done reporting on the nonsense at City Hall and outshone all the local media in covering the recent elections. On the other hand, New York Non-Stop is the usual namby-pamby crap seen on shows like "2 on the Town" or "Eye on LA" that covers what yuppies had for dinner or some artist that is building the Mona Lisa out of trash. Nice stuff, but we already have that programming.

And finally, Valley Doll says she's heard a rumor that a member of the City Council we all know and love may have knocked up their "partner." Congrats on the coming bundle of joy!

Antonio Villaraigosa, Jack Weiss, Wendy Greuel and Laundered Campaign Contributions

Here's a reason to join with Dennis Zine and other Council Members who are voting for anyone but Jack Weiss for City Attorney. Don't forget this Emmy Award winning KNBC report that alleges how Weiss was received laundered campaign funds. In addition to Weiss, KNBC says other candidates who took laundered funds include Mayor Villaraigosa, City Controlller candidate Wendy Greuel, Janice Hahn and Greig Smith.

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Mayor Sam's Hotsheet for Friday

Sunday night at 11:30 p.m. KNBC News will run a special report on a Los Angeles Unified School District library renovation program called "Wonders of Reading." KNBC will say that there was a "breakdown in LAUSD oversight" that led to "often unaccountable spending, with a written acknowledgment by the District that it makes no effort to track the work and expenditures of subcontractors on such projects; loss of half of the contract bid documents for the existing 170-plus WOR projects and alleged intimidation of contractors."

The Society of Professional Journalists’ are hosting a panel on the disappearance of the city’s local newspapers entitled "Imagine a City Without a Newspaper." Of course, showing they don't get it, the panel is made up of former local fishwrap of record reporters, Zev and a gasbag journo professor from the University of Spoiled Children. Not one blogger; heck not even pseudo-bloggers such as the paperweight winning Westside White Guy, on the panel. Imagine a City Without a Newspaper? Indeed, and the sooner the better. I am sure at one point someone held a panel about 66 million years ago called "Imagine a World Without Dinosaurs."

The Democratic Party of the San Fernando Valley has come out with endorsments for the March 3rd elections and no surprise they've endorsed the terror troika of Antonio Villaraigosa for Mayor, Jack Weiss for City Controller Attorney (thanks to the spinner who caught this typo but still could not make the case why any of these three should be elected) and Wendy Greuel for City Controller. Surprising however that DPSFV did not endorse school board candidate and Villaraigosa puppet Nury Martinez, who some wonder if she is even running a campaign at all.

Residents in the NoHo Arts District are fighting to keep a crosswalk; at least some a previously closed crossing in Westwood is back and available for use. Streetsblog found a crosswalk at Glendon and Weyburn that had posted no-crossing signs and called LADOT. They figured out it was a screw-up and soon the crosswalk was in use again.

Zuma Dogg Marathon: Zuma Discusses the Bailout with KNBC

Zuma Dogg discusses the economy back when John McCain suspended his campaign in September. Zuma looks like he was right.

The 70s at 7

For today's feature here are snippets from local television news during the 70s. See if you remember any of these.

KNXT (now KCBS) 11:00 p.m. news from around 1978 featuring a very young Connie Chung and Jim Hill.

Here's a KNBC News clip from the 70s back when Pat Sajak did the weather.



And Channel 7 Eyewitness News with Jerry Dunphy.

Let's Hope Mayor V Stays Away From This News Hottie

Yes, like the Westside White Guy, I've posted some girly pictures. There's a new anchor-babe in town, in fact she was voted the "sexiest newscaster of 2006" in an FHM Magazine reader poll.

Elita Loresca is the new weather anchor for KNBC's "Today in LA" and the "Midday Report."

Loresca previously worked at Fox affiliate WSVN in Miami, where she was the weather anchor on the top-rated morning and noon newscasts since August 2004. Loresca has covered two of the most devastating hurricane seasons in recent history. Starting on her first day at WSVN, Loresca began forecasting the 2004 hurricane season with Hurricane Frances. In 2005, Loresca contributed reports for her station from the National Hurricane Center during hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma.

The 30 year old Loresca is a Southern California native and once wrote obituaries for the Orange County Register.

Let's hope the Mayor stays away from her.