“They were stopped in court by the NAACP and the Peace and Freedom Party, who organized to protect the poor. The city's dream of building high rise hotels and apartments like Miami Beach was thwarted. Venice looked like it was bombed during World War 2 as little was rebuilt during the next decade.” (Wikipedia)

As a regular reader, you already know that 40,000 of the inmates in our county jail are illegal aliens...

Federal officials estimated that about 40,000 of the 170,000 inmates who go through L.A. County jails each year are in the United States illegally.

The paper’s new editor, Ebineezer “Slick” O’Malley, hired by the parent company to cut staff and make big pronouncements, employed scare tactics such as mentioning declining print advertising revenues and dressing up as a ghost and yelling “boo!” at staffers in order to get them out of a “bunker mentality” about the web. He also tried enticing unconvinced staff members to try out what he billed as the “Information Superhighway” by showing them how they could buy books online at a site called Amazon and pay bills online too.

• High Expectations
• Safe, Small and Clean,
• Empowered Leadership
• Powerful Teaching and Rigorous Curriculum
• Family and Community Involvement
• More Money to Schools

• Small, Safe, Personalized Schools
• High Expectations for All Students
• Local Control with Extensive Professional Development and Accountability
• Parent Participation
• Get Dollars into the Classroom
• Keep Schools Open Later

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In a dazzling showcase of NIMBY rebellion, a small faction of Cheviot Hills IMBY’s have launched LightRailForCheviot.org to inform the world that not all Cheviot Hills Homeowners are scared of mobility:

We want mobility – mobility not involving cars, driving, and parking – mobility that will raise property values in Cheviot Hills as gridlock worsens.

“Restaurants are spilling into Culver City because there's nowhere else to go,” says the chef Michael Wilson. He chose Culver City as the location of his new restaurant Wilson — Culver City's most ambitious endeavor, serving dishes like truffled pasta and slow-roasted pork with cherry sauce — over the tonier (and more crowded, competitive and pricey) neighborhoods of Beverly Hills or Santa Monica. “The rents are a lot lower so you can really get away without charging astronomical prices for good food,” he said. “In five or six years you won't even recognize Washington Boulevard — it will be the new little restaurant row.”