As the race for LA City Attorney gets tighter some insiders are upset over the ad released by the Greg Smith camp. In the ad police officers along with a Los Angeles City Fire Fighter briefly tell their story about how Greg Smith fought for them. Greg Smith is an award-winning attorney in private practice who has fought illegal employment and discrimination cases …
At 4:31 am January 17, 1994 veteran Los Angeles Police Officer Clarence Wayne Dean a 26 year veteran of the department lost his life along with 56 others in one of the biggest earthquakes to ever hit Los Angeles. Moments after the shaking stopped Los Angeles City Employees from the Los Angeles Fire Department, Los …
Please read the latest memo from the Mayor, to quote, “The fiscal reality calls for us to do business differently and move forward with initiatives we never would have considered under different circumstances. Make no mistake, this is not an attack on anyone or any group. Rather this is our chance to protect our …
As the Mayor prepares his speech on the State of the City I wanted to look back on the LAFD Brownouts. Nothing is better then watching politicians act shocked when their budget descisions play out in the worst way possible, take the LAFD Response time issue for example. They knew and didn’t care, they would …
Miguel Santana the City Administrative Officer has released an Update to the Three-Year Plan to Fiscal Sustainability. In this comprehensive report he highlights the challenges faced by the City of Los Angeles, future outlooks, recommendations, and does a brilliant job of painting the economic sustainability of the City of Los Angeles in the grimmest light possible. One would think bankruptcy is inevitable. …
LAPD has Posted this surveillance video of a possible arson suspect, officially a ” Person of Interest “. Detectives have a person of interest who was captured on surveillance video from multiple locations where arson fires have occurred. He is described as a male with light complexion wearing dark clothing and a pony tail hair …
Here are some quick facts: Julie Butcher the sneaky renegade union op that was moved from Cities to County for SEIU 721 and attempted to hold a vote on a contract in a union she doesn’t even represent and has cost LA City Workers more money out of their paychecks then every recession combined in …
Just as was expected police and fire have had retirement health care subsidy talk all but ended. LA City Council was dishonest in selling this to members and now the only ones who can laugh about it are the one who voted NO! SEIU 721 continues to sell a bad deal to members due to …
Los Angeles Fire Department faced another budget setback as they have been forced to remove the Only Hazardous Materials Response crew from service to the San Fernando valley. With major factories, junkyards, airports and transportation corridors in the San Fernando Valley Grieg Smith and his Chief of Staff Mitch Englander have failed to provide the …
Councilman Greig Smith won’t admit his decision will lead to loss of life. So officially it’s called a brownout, What exactly does that mean? Here is the translation the LA City Council deny. A Brownout amounts to the temporary closing of a Fire Station, It directly translates into an increase in response time, in an …