Attn Karen Bass:

Bike Bike ≠ Big Oil

Chevron gave $50,000 to re-elect you.

They know Nithya would fight against their interests (fossil fuels).

We deserve cleaner air and a Mayor who is not beholden to Big Oil.

It's now Hollywood Burbank Airport and is bigger and across the lot from the old one. But you can imagine my surprise showing up to my flight being like "where tf am i"

Last night Lauren Meister demonstrated something increasingly rare on the West Hollywood City Council: a willingness to listen, reconsider, and think beyond the confines of a predetermined political position. Her proposal was neither radical nor unreasonable. It simply asked whether there might be a better way to achieve safety for ALL users of Fountain Avenue. Apparently, intellectual curiosity is now considered an act of political betrayal.

Danny Hang’s attempt to invoke stare decisis, a doctrine of judicial precedent, to justify his refusal to reconsider a legislative decision was an embarrassing exercise in borrowed legal authority masquerading as critical thinking. John Erickson’s particularly vile performance, including telling Meister she should be ashamed of herself, was another example of his willingness to abuse the privilege of his Council seat for naked political theater. And Chelsea Byers seems incapable of entering a discussion without having already decided its outcome. For her, public engagement increasingly resembles a procedural inconvenience rather than an opportunity to learn.

Then there were the several dozen written comments originating from ZIP codes well beyond West Hollywood. Everyone is entitled to an opinion, but the voices of outside advocacy networks should not be confused with those of residents who will live with the consequences of these decisions every day. Their interests deserve particular consideration, not dismissal as obstacles to someone else’s ideological vision.

Special recognition must go to Public Safety Commissioner Kelly Pilarski, whose angry, condescending lecture on Meister’s legacy was a breathtaking display of arrogance. Having recently found herself at the center of controversy over her own commission’s adherence to basic public meeting rules, Pilarski might consider demonstrating a little humility before presuming to lecture a three-term Council member on responsible governance. Invoking her “personal capacity” did nothing to make the spectacle less unbecoming.

Perhaps most disturbing was the wholesale collapse of comity, civility, and mutual respect. Disagreement is the lifeblood of democratic government. Personal vilification, ideological rigidity, and performative outrage are not. The Council chamber should be a place for deliberation, not a stage for political score-settling.

Meister said that if listening to residents is her legacy, so be it. I would suggest that is a legacy worth celebrating. The other three members of the majority might reflect on what theirs is becoming.

Nowhere in the articles about this asshole does any author describe the avalanche of bad decisions that all happened in his favor, beginning with a judge in 2013 setting aside is entire charge.

Our justice system is a joke.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/53458498

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/53250951

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It's highly recommended to avoid election day voting in person, and vote early.

In a rare move, Los Angeles City Controller Kenneth Mejia on Friday said his office issued a subpoena to Olympics organizing committee LA28, demanding it hand over documents detailing its finances, contracts and budgets for venue construction projects.

The action comes after LA28 failed to include a detailed list of its contracts in its recent budget report to the city, despite a contract requiring their disclosure.

The Games Agreement between the city and LA28 requires the committee to submit the name, type, amount, term and purpose of each contract it has entered into worth more than $1 million. It also requires the organizing committee to give updates on venue improvements, including schedules and budgets.

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Vote Raman if you live in LA. duh.

During the record-breaking heat wave in the first week of October, more than nine in 10 Los Angeles Unified schools were in areas with high or severe heat risk, up from about one in six during the first week of the school year.

The week began with yet another deadline that LA28 did not meet. By September 28, LA City Controller Kenneth Mejia had demanded key financial information from the organizing committee, over which the city had recently admitted it doesn't have any operational control. Mejia's office had estimated hosting the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games has already cost the city at least $27 million, a number that seems laughably low when you consider how many municipal employees have been working on them for at least a decade. And then the laughter turns to deep, guttural sobs as you realize we don't know how much the games have cost LA28, either.

According to the games agreement made with the host city of LA, LA28's annual report — also delivered late, or at least made public late, just like the human rights strategy — is supposed to include a list of all contracts valued at $1 million or more. But as a Los Angeles Times report detailed on Monday, accounting practices had changed, and contracts were now listed without vendor name or dollar amounts — right as LA28's budget was casually revised up from $7.149 to $7.263 billion.

Next do Elysian Park... Or even better, tear down Dodger stadium. 🤮

The city’s top financial adviser is recommending that the Los Angeles City Council deny a police department request to procure 300 additional vehicles for the 2028 Olympics and Paralympics.

The report, submitted to the council Monday by City Administrative Officer Matt Szabo, found that the L.A. Police Department would have enough vehicles to temporarily expand its fleet during the Games without the additional cars.

LAPD officials had previously requested around $31 million, arguing the additional officers deployed for the Games will need additional vehicles for their police work.

But Szabo disagreed in his report, finding instead that the department would soon have a large enough fleet.

Article fails to mention the guy that they tried to scapegoat for this inevitable environmental collapse.

This report comes out just after the trial ofc...

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/06/25/us/palisades-fire-jonathan-rinderknecht