Archives: Antonio Villaraigosa

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March 2008

  • Eyes open

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    This just in: Rivalry between African American gangs and their Latino counterparts is adding a new and troubling racial element to the epidemic... more

  • California's shifting axis

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    It's not the Civil War, of course. There's no Andersonville or Quantrill's Raiders. But from the time that L.A.-spawned Jesse Unruh captured... more

  • L.A. leaders concede that race might be an issue in recent shootings...

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    L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and LAPD Chief William Bratton have strongly challenged the notion that racial hatred might have played a... more

  • L.A. unveils plan to speed building project approvals

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    Only days after business leaders publicly complained that Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa wasn't making good on a pledge to slash bureaucratic... more

  • L.A. official to join Pomona College

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    Los Angeles' chief financial analyst, a widely respected City Hall figure who is keeping watch over a troubling municipal budget deficit... more

  • Filling potholes puts a bounce in mayor's step

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    os Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa last week filled the city's 800,000th pothole since he took office in July 2005 and that being a seemingly... more

  • A CITY OF GUEST LISTS

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    THEY'RE still repairing the stiletto divots in the mayor's backyard. But that's what you get when you invite the fashion crowd over for... more

  • Potential rival to mayor's cousin gets city appointment

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    Ricardo Lara is named to the Planning Commission days after he dropped out of the race for an Assembly seat coveted by Villaraigosa relative... more

  • Villaraigosa picks up business baton

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    Former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan named an influential group of civic leaders 15 years ago to streamline what was said to be a tortuous... more

  • Port shifts plan's cost to shippers

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    The Los Angeles Harbor Commission on Thursday unanimously approved a clean air plan requiring shipping companies to buy and maintain a modernized... more

  • One more and we'll call it a pattern

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    Ricardo Lara was running for the state Assembly in the 46th district. So was Antonio Villaraigosa's cousin. Lara dropped out, and this week... more

  • Mayor takes an (unpaid) holiday

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    L.A. taxpayers will save $858.26 today courtesy of Antonio Villaraigosa. That's what the mayor (who earns more than $223,000 a year) will... more

  • 800,000 and counting...

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    How could we have filled so many potholes but still have so many around LA? Consider this item: A pothole will be repaired today in Leimert... more

  • Two police shootings rock city

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    The day after back-to-back shootings by Los Angeles police officers on the same Wilmington block, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and... more

  • L.A. considers plan to increase trash fees

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    To fund the mayor's plan to boost police staffing, officials may raise the monthly cost again, from $26 to $38... more

 
 

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