Thursday, May 17, 2012
A pile-up occurs Thursday at the intersection of Brooks Avenue and Pacific Avenue.
Readers recently voted the intersection of Lincoln and Venice boulevards as the worst in Venice-Mar Vista, but the intersection of Brooks Avenue and Pacific Avenue may be the most dangerous. The Brooks-Pacific intersection with its poor sight lines, speeding vehicles and tight turns made our list and readers commented on how dangerous it is. A three-car accident Thursday afternoon at the intersection underscored the point. The Los Angeles Fire Department's Station 63 responded to the accident, said Capt. Rex Vilaubi. There were no immediate reports on injuries.
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
See Los Angeles City Council member and mayoral candidate Jan Perry in conversation before a live audience at Cal-State Northridge.
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Wednesday, May 16
(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
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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Saturday, May 12, 2012
The Venice Neighborhood Council is accepting applications for a vacant community officer position until Tuesday and will elect a new board member during its June meeting.
The Venice Neighborhood Council will accept nominations for a replacement community officer until Tuesday and the council's board in June will elect a candidate to its board. Two candidates already have submitted their applications. They include: Applications for the position can be found right here and should be mailed to the council's chair of the Rules & Elections Committee Ira Koslaw at ira.koslow@venicenc.org by a deadline of 5 p.m. on May 15. Candidates will be given three minutes to introduce themselves to the board during its May 15 meeting and the board will have two weeks to submit additional questions to the candidates by sending them to Koslow. The candidates will have one week to respond via email. The questions and answers …
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Austin Beutner in an email to supporters says the responsibilities of being a husband and father is at odds with the demands of a campaign.
Austin Beutner, the 2013 mayoral candidate who formerly served as a deputy mayor and general manager of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, announced Tuesday that he is dropping out of the race. Beutner in an email sent to his supporters said he was leaving the race "to be engaged with my family in a way which is at odds with the demands of a campaign." Beutner, 52, thanked his supporters and said all campaign contributions will be returned to donors. He said the nation's second-largest city will only reach its potential if city leaders rise to its challenges and make the right choices. "We need to fix our schools because good public education is a civil right and the foundation of our future. We need to create solutions to the …
Thursday, May 3, 2012
What would you like Patch to ask the candidates running for the 54th Assembly District seat, which includes Culver City and portions of Mar Vista, Century City and Westwood?
Patch will be querying the candidates vying for the 54th Assembly District as the June 5 primary election campaigns shift into high gear. The candidates and their official ballot designation are: Assemblymember Mitchell was elected to the 47th District in November 2010, which included Culver City, Baldwin Hills, Cheviot Hills, the Crenshaw District, Ladera Heights, Little Ethiopia, Palms, UCLA, West Los Angeles, portions of Koreatown, the Fairfax district, Beverlywood and South Los Angeles. The latest redistricting maps will now see her running as the incumbent in the newly-drawn 54th District which now includes Culver City, portions of Mar Vista, parts of Baldwin Hills, the Crenshaw District, West Los Angeles, Westwood, Cheviot Hills, …
What would you like Patch to ask the candidates running for the 62nd Assembly District seat, which includes parts of Mar Vista as well as Venice, Marina del Rey and Playa del Rey.
Patch will be querying the candidates vying for the 62nd Assembly District as the June 5 primary election campaigns shift into high gear. The candidates and their official ballot designation are: Assemblyman Bradford is the incumbent in the 62nd Assembly District. We'll be gathering biographical information and presenting the candidates with a questionnaire to help voters understand where they stand on the issues. As of Apr. 6, 2012, there were 222,378 registered voters in the 62nd Assembly District with 61 percent registered as Democrats and 15 percent registered as Republicans. We're asking for your help. What questions do you want us to ask the candidates?
Saturday, April 28, 2012
What would you like Patch to ask the candidates running for the 33rd Congressional District seat, which includes Santa Monica, Venice, the Beach Cities, Beverly Hills, Palos Verdes, Brentwood, Westwood and the Pacific Palisades.
Patch will be querying the candidates vying for the 33rd Congressional District as the June 5 primary election campaigns shift into high gear. Rep. Henry Waxman, a staunchly Democratic candidate who has served in Congress since 1975, is the front-runner and earlier this month reported having more than six times as much cash to spend then his next opponent ahead of the primary. We'll be gathering biographical information and presenting the candidates with a questionnaire to help voters understand where they stand on the issues. The 33rd Congressional District was redrawn to reflect population changes reported in the 2010 U.S. Census and now includes Beverly Hills, cuts east to Malibu and then stretches south down the coast and includes …
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Current Assemblywoman Betsy Butler has the most cash on hand, followed closely by Torie Osborn in the election for the 50th Assembly District.
With sizable donations from unions and colleagues at the state Capital, first-term state legislator Betsy Butler is boasting the biggest campaign war chest in the race for the 50th Assembly District. Butler reported having $463,687 on hand in the most recent filings with the Secretary of Sate ahead of the June 5 primary. While firefighter and labor unions, lawmakers and political action committees cut Butler big checks, she wasn’t the only candidate to rake in more than a quarter of a million dollars from January to mid-March. And, she wasn’t spending the most, either. Torie Osborn—the grassroots organizer who snagged endorsements this winter from most of the area’s local Democratic clubs—reported $429,450 and outspent Butler by $28,679 …
Monday, April 16, 2012
Rep. Henry Waxman reported having more than six times as much cash on hand as his next opponent in the election for the 33rd Congressional District.
Rep. Henry Waxman, a staunchly Democratic candidate who has served in Congress since 1975, has more than six times as much cash to spend then his next opponent ahead of the June 5 primary election for the 33rd Congressional District, according to figures released Monday by the Federal Election Commission. Waxman reported having $985,577 cash on hand at the end of the April 15 quarterly filing period, which dwarfed that of the second-leading fundraiser Steve Collett, a Libertarian, who reported cash on hand of $147,229. The reporting period covered contributions made from Jan. 1 through March 31. A total of eight candidates were certified to compete in the June primary election, but only four candidates filed their April quarterly report. …
Jim Woodward
11:46 am on Sunday, May 20, 2012
The crosswalk at Sunset & Pacific is another candidate for most dangerous. Having lived near that intersection for a couple years, I can attest to numerous near-misses between pedestrian/bikes/boards & cars - even when pedestrians are IN the crosswalk. And yeah, the problem is simple: cars are going waaay too fast down Pacific and don't see the crosswalk until they're on top of it. In the case of… more ›