Wednesday, May 16, 2012
The Community Council lends its support to a plan for landscape improvements and usage rules for the Simon Meadow YMCA facility.
The Pacific Palisades Community Council voted unanimously last Thursday to support landscape improvements and usage guidelines for the Palisades-Malibu YMCA. The agreement caps more than two years of negotiations between YMCA staff and members of the PPCC Y Committee—Chair Emeritus Richard Cohen, Treasurer Ted Mackie and Jack Allen. "We are thrilled to have the agreement between the YMCA and the Committee on the conceptual design for the Beautification Plan for Simon Meadow," states a May 3 letter from the Palisades-Malibu YMCA Board of Mangers to Norman Kulla, Northern District director and senior counsel for Los Angeles City Councilman Bill Rosendahl. Kulla also participated in the negotiations in recent months. "Regarding the …
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See Los Angeles City Council member and mayoral candidate Jan Perry in conversation before a live audience at Cal-State Northridge.
(If video window doesn't appear, refresh the page.) Los Angeles City Council member Jan Perry cruised through a list of issues at Cal State Northridge Tuesday in the second of the "Talking About Los Angeles" series of interviews with mayoral candidates. Moderator Christine Essel, the CEO for the Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency, started off the event by saying that she had known Perry for 20 years. Questioned by Essel, Perry touched on redevelopment, jobs, housing, transit, education, pensions and the city's budget deficit. Patch is a co-sponsor of the series, which was organized by the Southwest Voter Registration Education Project, a Latino voter participation organization; and Cerrell Associates, a Los Angeles political …
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Englander urges all of the city's Neighborhood Councils to take a position on the ordinance.
By Mitchell Englander, Councilmember, Twelfth District The peace and safety of your neighborhood is the single most important measure of quality of life in our community, and my top priority is to help preserve and protect it. The City’s proposed Community Care Facility Ordinance has the singular purpose of preserving peace and safety in our neighborhoods. After numerous public hearings in the L.A. City Council’s Planning and Land Use Management Committee (PLUM), long deliberations, and dozens of hours of public comment from a range of interested groups and community members, the Community Care Facilities Ordinance was sent on to the full City Council for consideration. I urge every Neighborhood Council in the City to vote on a resolution …
Before sunset Sunday, the Earth's moon will pass in front of the sun, casting a giant shadow across the land.
A solar eclipse is expected to be visible across much of the western U.S. on Sunday, and the Griffith Observatory is planning a public viewing. In the hours before sunset on Sunday, the Earth's moon will pass in front of the sun – the eclipse will be between 5:24 p.m. and 7:42 p.m. The last solar eclipse visible in the U.S. was in 1994. In Los Angeles, Sunday's eclipse is the most extensive since 1992, according to the observatory. The Griffith Observatory's telescope will be outfitted with special filters, and viewing-glasses will be available for purchase. NASA warns that people should never observe a solar eclipse with the naked eye, only through filtered telescopes and special glasses. To learn more about the eclipse, visit NASA's …
The city councilwoman will be the second mayoral candidate interviewed in the Talking About Los Angeles series. Questions from Patch readers will be presented to Perry.
A series of conversations with Los Angeles mayoral candidates continues Tuesday evening with an interview of Councilwoman Jan Perry that will be shown via a live video stream you can watch on this Patch site. The interview, the second in the "Talking About Los Angeles" series, begins at 5:30 p.m. before an audience in The Grand Salon of California State University, Northridge, 18111 Nordhoff St. (See attached PDF map.) If you would like to attend the event, you can register on the Talking About Los Angeles website. The moderator for the event will be Christine Essel, the CEO for Los Angeles’ Community Redevelopment Agency. She’s a former senior vice president of government and community affairs for Paramount Pictures and had been an …
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Monday, May 14, 2012
The state assembly district candidate shares her views on issues with the Pali Community Council.
Torie Osborn, a California Assembly District 50 candidate, attended the Pacific Palisades Community Council meeting Thursday where she discussed issues affecting the community. Osborn, a Santa Monica resident for 27 years, has worked as a community organizer and a policy adviser to Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villariagosa. "It was a painful experience to see the results of 30 years of steady cuts of government and what it was like to be inside the starved beast of government after 30 years of steady erosion," Osborn commented on working in the mayor's office. "I became convinced that we need both serious governance reform and serious tax reform." Questions for Osborn from the community council were on issues that included the state budget, …
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The Los Angeles mayoral candidate steps on the field to kick off the campaign fundraiser on May 6.
According to The Daily Truffle, Los Angeles mayoral candidate Eric Garcetti threw out the first ball at a polo match on May 6 at Will Rogers State Historic Park. The event was a luncheon for members of The Supper Club, a social club with members in New York, Los Angeles, London and more. The match also served as a fundraiser for the current L.A. city councilman's campaign, said The Daily Truffle report.
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Friday, May 11, 2012
County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky and Metro officials warn motorists of upcoming ramp closures on the 405 at Wilshire Boulevard.
If you thought Carmageddon was bad, just wait for the "Ramp Jam." So warned Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky at a press conference Friday morning about the impending ramp closures of the 405 Freeway at Wilshire Boulevard. The first of the closures begins June 22, when the westbound Wilshire Boulevard on-ramp to the northbound 405 and the northbound 405 off-ramp to westbound Wilshire Boulevard will be closed for three months. "Yes, you heard me right. Three months," Yaroslavsky told the group of journalists gathered for the conference at the corner of Sepulveda and Wilshire boulevards, where he introduced the new term "Ramp Jam" for the extended closures. The other six on- and off-ramps at the intersection of the freeway will …
Hollywood's heavy hitters attend the event held at George Clooney's Studio City-area home Thursday night.
President Barack Obama left Los Angeles Friday for Reno, NV, after spending the previous evening at actor George Clooney's home for what is believed to have been the most lucrative fundraiser for a U.S. presidential candidate. But before leaving town, the president got in an early morning workout—playing basketball with some staff members, along with Clooney and Spider-Man star Tobey Maguire. The president was driven to the Cheviot Hills Recreation Center around 6:45 a.m. for the roughly one-hour game, then taken back to the Beverly Hilton, where he was staying. He was later ushered to Los Angeles International Airport, with Air Force One departing around 10 a.m. DreamWorks Animation Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Katzenberg, one ofthe …
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Traffic delays and protests are expected during President Barack Obama's short visit to Southern California.
Ahead of President Barack Obama's planned trip to Los Angeles Thursday night, L.A. Councilman Paul Krekorian warned Studio City residents and commuters who travel through that area to expect traffic delays. Obama is attending an evening fundraiser at actor George Clooney's home in the Fryman Canyon neighborhood. The president is scheduled to land at LAX at 6:25 p.m., and is expected to travel by helicopter and motorcade to Clooney's home. His exact route is not being released. Road closures and tight security in the hills could lead to traffic delays on Ventura Boulevard and Laurel Canyon Boulevard north of Ventura Boulevard, Krekorian said. The Department of Transportation and the LAPD were working to minimize traffic impacts in the area…
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