Mayor Sam's Hotsheet for Thursday
Explosive new charges at Zuma Times. Zuma Dogg reports that tipsters are telling him that President Obama is fuming that Mayor Villaraigosa and the City Council took Obama stimulus money for "shovel ready" projects and funneled it to the City's general fund to plug up the budget gap. Obama apparently has cut off the supply of spendalus money to LA because of this. Even worse for the Mayor, Zuma's source says pensiongate indictments are coming down soon.
Phil Jennerjahn, Carlos Alvarez, Zuma Dogg, Joe B and Mayor Sam all support the taco trucks. And so do the county courts. A Superior Court judge overturned a ticket issued to a taco truck owner for violating a City law that limited the amount of time a taco truck can park in a specific location. Story at LAist and SaveOurTacoTrucks.org.
CurbedLA reports that residents around Dodger Stadium tired of game fans parking in front of their homes have taken to putting up their own no parking signs. Now that it has been blogged about I am sure the City will take action against these folks.
Popular San Fernando Valley schoolteacher Mary Ann Farber will be retiring after 18 years in the classroom at Beckford Elementary. Story at Beckford Parents Blog.
The dumbasses at LADOT are at it again. In cities like New York, San Francisco, San Diego, etc. pedicabs are all the rage. But LA has this odd paranoid control freak mentality and they've been illegal for years. So when rules were written by the Department that would effectively regulate the cabs out of business the folks on the Transportation Commission had the sense enough to tell staff they were on crack and to redo the whole thing. Among LADOT's lame-ass rules not mirrored even in nanny state San Francisco were that the cab operators could not wear Hawaiian shirts and that passengers must wear helmets. Read the rest at Streetsblog.
Phil Jennerjahn, Carlos Alvarez, Zuma Dogg, Joe B and Mayor Sam all support the taco trucks. And so do the county courts. A Superior Court judge overturned a ticket issued to a taco truck owner for violating a City law that limited the amount of time a taco truck can park in a specific location. Story at LAist and SaveOurTacoTrucks.org.
CurbedLA reports that residents around Dodger Stadium tired of game fans parking in front of their homes have taken to putting up their own no parking signs. Now that it has been blogged about I am sure the City will take action against these folks.
Popular San Fernando Valley schoolteacher Mary Ann Farber will be retiring after 18 years in the classroom at Beckford Elementary. Story at Beckford Parents Blog.
The dumbasses at LADOT are at it again. In cities like New York, San Francisco, San Diego, etc. pedicabs are all the rage. But LA has this odd paranoid control freak mentality and they've been illegal for years. So when rules were written by the Department that would effectively regulate the cabs out of business the folks on the Transportation Commission had the sense enough to tell staff they were on crack and to redo the whole thing. Among LADOT's lame-ass rules not mirrored even in nanny state San Francisco were that the cab operators could not wear Hawaiian shirts and that passengers must wear helmets. Read the rest at Streetsblog.
Labels: "Pensiongate 09", beckford parents blog, curbed la, ladot, mayor antonio villaraigosa, pedicabs, preferential parking, taco trucks, zuma dogg
Posted by Michael Higby @ 6/18/2009 04:00:00 AM
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