So Los Angeles can have itself a new pro football team, if it only can pony up the money and settle other details by September. Is that good news? Sports columnists, at least, say it is. Other reactions were more subdued. One insider at New Coliseum Ventures, the leading group to bring pro football back […]
Month: July 2018
L.A. Chamber Talks With a New Voice
The ideological battle lines in California’s just-ended budget fight were recently broken by a surprising foray out of right field. The largest local chamber of commerce in the state asked the Legislature to pass a temporary sales tax increase to help finance away the state’s monster revenue shortfall. Even though the Los Angeles Area Chamber […]
‘Reform’ Imperils a Force for Clean Air * Schwarzenegger’s plan could kill a board responsible for giant strides.
The worn 1981 coupe in my driveway emits more pollution — in the form of oil drips, vapors and gas fumes — while parked under its tarp than a new Honda Accord going 70 mph. OK, only under certain, limited conditions. But there’s no denying the astonishing technological advances in less than a generation that […]
County Should Look for a Merger, Not a Miracle
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors seems unable to decide how to blunt the disaster facing its Department of Health Services. As one union representative recently put it, “There seems to be no operating plan for the future between total disaster and business as usual.” Here’s what’s at stake. In November, the county’s health […]
Is L.A. Charter Reform Headed for a Crash Landing?
Is this the beginning of the endgame or the beginning of the end for Los Angeles’ 20th-century fling with charter reform? As the days grow shorter, so does the time left to conclude the reinvention of city government. But recent events have revealed more discord than concord in the primary workplace where the new charter […]
Haefele on the Los Angeles mayoral race
Shirley Jahad talks to Mark Haefele about the Los Angeles mayoral race. Shirley Jahad: Good afternoon. This is All Things Considered on 89.3 KPCC. I’m Shirley Jahad here with Marc Haefele. He is dean of the city hall reporters. Hi, Marc. Marc Haefele: Hi Shirley. Jahad: Well Marc, we are just on the heels of […]
Early Takeaways from the Da Vinci Complex Fire
One thing sticks out about the apartment building fire that engulfed the construction site of controversial developer Geoff Palmer’s 1.3 million-square-foot wooden Da Vinci complex early yesterday morning: the immediate announcement of the possibility of arson. It is extremely unusual for Los Angeles fire department officials to raise the possibility of arson on the same […]
Marc Haefele remembers LA City Councilman Art Snyder, who called himself “a glorified plumber”
If I could go back to a decisive point in the past that would help me better understand Los Angeles political history, it might be to 1940, in a forlorn little homestead in the far San Fernando Valley, where a sharp little 3rd grader named Art Snyder would be arguing politics with his leftist father. […]
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