Recent Streetsblog LA posts about 2011 Election

The race for the 8th District City Council race, pitting Councilman Bernard Parks against Forescee Hogan-Rowles and Jabari Jumaane was supposed to be a cakewalk for the incumbent.  Parks, like most of his fellow Council Members, has a massive fund raising and name recognition advantage.  However, in the wake of his significant loss to Mark […]

After Tuesday’s review of the race for the 6th Council District attracted comments from two of the insurgent candidates in the race.  Since our story focused on the mixed record of the incumbent Councilman, Tony Cardenas, I thought we would highlight the comments by David Barron and Rich Goodman in the order that we received […]

Voters in Los Angeles’ 6th Councilmanic District face a choice between Councilman Tony Cardenas, and a trio of lesser known neophytes all banking that Cardenas’s record has turned off enough voters to allow one of them to slip past the well-funded incumbent. Thus, Jaime Cordaro, David Barron, and Rich Goodman haven’t focused much on transportation […]

Did you know that California is one of the few states, Los Angeles is one of the few cities, where oil is extracted from the ground and there is no extraction tax on each barrel of oil pumped?  Proposition O added to the March 8 ballot by the Los Angeles City Council seeks to change […]