In Brief...
MTA/RAD Project Hearing is Dec.
8
Despite overwhelming community
opposition, the MTA/RAD gated fortress at the bus maintenance yard, Sunset Ave.
and Main St. has made only minor changes. A City Planning Department hearing on
the project will be held around Noon, Dec. 8 at City Hall, 10th floor. Everyone
who is concerned about this project should trek downtown. You might even be able
to lend a hand to Lincoln Place tenants who may still be camped out
there.
LAX Expansion Plan is
Grounded
The new regime at City
Hall has shot down former Mayor Hahn’s grandiose plans for a multi-billion
dollar expansion of the already bloated airport. Bill Rosendahl and Antonio
Villaraigosa delivered the coup de grace at a press conference, Nov. 30.
“This is a great beginning of a new era of partnership between LAX and its
neighbors,” predicted Rosendahl. In truth, the withdrawal of lawsuits in
exchange for dropping the expansion preserves the status quo. Once the euphoria
wears off, no one will be
pleased.
Venice Progressives
endorse moratorium
A petition
campaign has been launched by the Venice Progressives, who run candidates in the
GRVNC elections (see advertisement on page 5). The group was spurred into
action, in part, by the front page Planning Dept. chart that shows Venice as
ground zero for new building projects. The group plans to present the petitions
to the GRVNC and to Councilmember
Rosendahl.
‘Circle the
Wagons’ is new Iraq
policy
George Bush’s new
prescription for Victory in Iraq is to reduce the number of troops so they
won’t be so noticeable to insurgents. While old movie cowboys often were
victorious against Native American insurgents, it doesn’t work so well in
real life, as witnessed by the hurried escape for U.S. Embassy personnel by
helicopter on April 30,
1975.
Meanwhile, House Democrats
obligingly gave Bush cover, a few days earlier, by voting unanimously, save
three, against an immediate ending of the occupation that is costing $6 Billion
a month and has resulted in 2,127 deaths of U.S. soldiers.
Posted: Mon - December
5, 2005 at 05:29 PM