Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Sandra Cisneros Learning Academy at Mohawk Bend will host the event May 23. The event is open to the public, but Patch will also have a special question or two. Suggest what we should ask here.
The June 5 primary is upon us. And Echo Park and Silver Lake residents will get a chance to see the candidates for the 51st Assembly District in action. Arturo Chavez, Democrat; Jimmy Gomez, Democrat; Luis Lopez, Democrat; Oscar Gutierrez, Democrat; and Richard Friedberg, Independent will all participate in a candidates' forum at the Sandra Cisneros Learning Academy. It will take place on MaY 23 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Issues of interest to residents of the 51st District--which includes Echo Park, Angeleno Heights, Historic Filipinotown and Silver Lake--will be discussed, including children and education. The public is invited. Come with your own question or suggest one below, and we may ask it that night. This forum is co-sponsored by the …
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
BongHwan Kim, who heads the city agency that oversees neighborhood councils, entered a crowded field on Friday.
A Korean-American could become the first Asian-American on the Los Angeles City Council in 20 years. BongHwan Kim, the general manager of the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment (DONE), filed papers Friday to run for the Thirteenth District seat that will open next year when Eric Garcetti terms out. DONE oversees the city's neighborhood councils, including budgeting and elections. Read Kim's bio here. "Government needs to do a better job of making sure that neighborhoods are more empowered," Kim said. "Working with neighborhoods is going to be one of the few ways that government is going to be able to survive these tough economic times, and I'm uniquely qualified to do that." A number of candidates have already entered the race, …
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
The L.A. Times quotes Beutner’s friends as saying he’s throwing in the towel.
Monday, May 7, 2012
Mitch O'Farrell will chair a discussion on the state of the movement Wednesday at Taix Restaurant.
O'Farrell plans to host 13 discussions on a variety of topics. Future topics will include: Public Safety, Infrastructure & Public Works, Transportation, Youth & Education, Seniors, Business and Economic Development, Animal Welfare, the City Budget Deficit, Housing Policy, Homeless & Veterans Issues, Planning/Development, and Environmental Policy/Los Angeles River. In a statement, O'Farrell says he hopes to "foster an open dialogue on issues that affect residents the most. O'Farrell served as a staff member in Council District 13 representative Eric Garcetti's office for nine years before resigning to run for office. Before that he was active in neighborhood politics. He says that as a founder of the Glassell Park Neighborhood Council needs…
Friday, April 27, 2012
TERA’s ‘Meet the Candidates’ forum came just a month and a half before the primary election.
The goal of the meeting was to “walk away and feel that we know these individuals a little better,” TERA President Bob Gotham said in his introductory remarks, referring to the four Democratic candidates vying for the 51st District seat in the California Assembly. The candidates—Arturo Chavez, Jimmy Gomez, Oscar Gutierrez and Luis Lopez—will contest the primaries on June 5 and a general election in November. But on Wednesday night they sat side by side facing about 40 people who had gathered at the Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock, to hear them. Rain had been forecast for the evening. Besides some gusty winds, however, the weather held out. Supporting politicians on the basis of what they say can be like putting your faith in a blind date: …
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
TERA hosts a ‘Meet the Candidates’ forum at the Center for the Arts.
With less than a week left for April to end, the countdown has begun to the June 5 primary elections to the California Assembly. Last Saturday, Jimmy Gomez, one of the frontrunners in the race for the 51st Assembly District,opened his campaign headquarters in Highland Park even though he lives in Echo Park. Read our interview with Gomez, an Echo Park resident, here. On Wednesday, Gomez will share the podium with the three other Democratic frontrunners in the 51st Assembly District race—Luis Lopez, Arturo Chavez and Oscar Gutierrez—in a “Meet the Candidates” forum at the Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock. Luis Lopez lives in Silver Lake and Arturo Chavez is a deputy for Echo Park assemblyman Gil Cedillo. The event, hosted by TERA (The Eagle …
Thursday, April 5, 2012
Splitting John Marshall High from its feeder schools and sharing Echo Park between two trustees were concerns.
A City Council committee said Wednesday that it would consider "changes but not a full redrawing of maps" drafted by the LAUSD Redistricting Commission. The City Council's Rules, Elections and Intergovernmental Relations Committee on Wednesday began deliberating new district boundaries for seven Los Angeles Unified School District board seats. The committee is considering a map of the seven districts drawn by a 15- member redistricting commission appointed last fall by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, City Council President Eric Garcetti and school board members. The Los Angeles Times reports that splitting some high schools from so-called "feeder" elementary and middle schools was a top concern. For example, the new maps put Los Feliz's John …
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Watch the recording of the interview with the mayoral candidate before a live audience at Los Angeles Trade Technical College in downtown L.A.
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Thursday, March 29
Los Angeles City Councilman Eric Garcetti responded to questions regarding his run for mayor as part of the "Talking About Los Angeles" series. Some of the questions were submitted by Patch readers. Watch video of the interview by clicking on this link to the Livestream website. The interview was held before a live audience at the downtown campus of Los Angeles Trade Technical College. Moderator for the interview was Anthony Salcito, vice president of worldwide education for Microsoft Corp., the event's lead sponsor. The councilman responded to questions submitted by Patch readers, presented by Patch Regional Editor Richard Core. Patch is a co-sponsor of the series, which has been organized by the Southwest Voter Registration Education …
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8:11 am on Friday, May 18, 2012
All 4 Democrats have the same beliefs. Richard Friedberg being the only one that is not a Democrat, what do you believe differently than the others? What would you do differently than the others? more ›